New Anti-LGBTQ Law Threatens Uganda’s Already Marginalized Population

On Tuesday, March 21st, Ugandan Parliament passed a law that makes “aggravated homosexuality” punishable by death and the “non-aggravated” act of homosexuality punishable by 20 years imprisonment.

If you own property that someone else rents from you, and your renter commits an act of homosexuality on the property, you may go to prison for ten years. Failure to report acts of homosexuality can cost you six months of imprisonment, and false sexual allegations can get you up to a year in prison.

Family members who have already shunned their gay relative(s) will now hunt them down. Churches and mosques will become pipelines to the government’s brute squad for torture, imprisonment, and death.

Those who can, will escape seeking refugee status at Kakuma, Kenya. Those who cannot will go deeper into hiding, having few people to trust—if anyone at all. Many innocent people will die, and the country will lose many of its best and brightest from all walks of life.

Most likely, the law will eventually be repealed, and then Uganda will emerge that much dumber, having hamstrung itself via the brain-drain and murder of so many gifted people. Pray that Ugandan lawmakers will see the foolishness of this law and repeal it sooner rather than later!

Read more about this horrific law on the CNN website.

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