Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Ugandan President Signs Harsh Anti-Gay Bill, Invites “outsiders” to Stop Financial Aid to Uganda - so, Let’s.




The President of Uganda, on Feb 24, 2014, signed  a bill, which mandates life sentences for anyone who “promotes” homosexuality.


In signing the bill into law, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni made the following comments - and has challenged the world to do something about it:
“No study has shown you can be homosexual by nature. That’s why I have agreed to sign the bill." 
“Homosexuals are actually mercenaries. They are heterosexual people but because of money they say they are homosexuals. These are prostitutes because of money.” 
“That is why those mercenaries must be punished and those recruiting them. I have failed to understand that you can fail to be attracted to all these beautiful women and be attracted to a man.” 
“That is a really serious matter. There is something really wrong with you.” 
“Outsiders cannot dictate to us. This is our country. I advise friends from the West not to make this an issue, because if they make it an issue the more they will lose.”  
“If the West does not want to work with us because of homosexuals, then we have enough space to ourselves here.”
Meanwhile, on Feb 12, 2014, the US government announced a new $10 million grant to foster 
“Uganda's nature-based tourism to deliver and improved visitor experience and stewardship of natural resources necessary to sustain Uganda's economic development.”

The decision to send $10 million in new tourism funding to Uganda must be reversed.


You can help by calling or writing USAID Press office:

202-712-4320 
USAIDPressOfficers@usaid.gov
You can also post a message on the USAID-Uganda facebook page:

The message to US AID:
in light of the new-anti LGBT law in Uganda, the USAID/Uganda $10 million “Tourism for Biodiversity Program” should be scrapped.

You can also deliver the same message to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), which is the conduit for the new grant:
African Wildlife Foundation
1400 Sixteenth Street, N.W. - Suite 120
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036, USA
Tel: +1 202 939 3333
Toll free: +1 888 494 5354
africanwildlife@awf.org
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