KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda’s president says he opposes an anti-homosexuality bill recently passed by lawmakers and that “abnormal” people should not be jailed or killed.
In a recent letter to the speaker of parliament, President Yoweri Museveni said homosexuals need what he calls economic rehabilitation. He says parliament’s bill needs to be revised.
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Details of the letter, written late last month after Uganda’s parliament passed an anti-gay law widely condemned by rights activists, were published Friday in Kampala’s Daily Monitor newspaper. Sarah Kagingo, a spokeswoman for the presidency, confirmed that Museveni wrote the letter.
Frank Mugisha, a prominent Ugandan gay rights activist, said Museveni’s characterization of gays “creates more hatred” in a country where discrimination against homosexuals is already rampant. He said there is “no celebration” over the president’s opposition to the bill.
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