The state-sanctioned, anti-gay hysteria in the East African nation of Uganda returns with deadly consequences. Ugandan MP David Bahati introduces a bill that creates an offense of “aggravated homosexuality” to be punishable by death, reports New Vision. To protect “traditional families and children”, of course.

Aggravated homosexuality will be punished by death, according to a new bill tabled in Parliament yesterday.

The private member’s bill was tabled by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati (NRM).

A person commits aggravated homosexuality when the victim is a person with disability or below the age of 18, or when the offender is HIV-positive.

The bill thus equates aggravated homosexuality to aggravated defilement among people of different sexes, which also carries the death sentence.

The Bill, entitled the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, also states that anyone who commits the offence of homosexuality will be liable to life imprisonment.

This was already the case under the current Penal Code Act.

However, it gives a broader definition of the offence of homosexuality.

A person charged with the offence will have to undergo a mandatory medical examination to ascertain his or her HIV status.

To read more, please click here. (www.newvision.co.ug)

By Mary Karugaba and Catherine Bekunda

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