americans, radical, anti-gay american preachers went to uganda and lectured ugandan politicians on the evils and dangers of sexuality and told them how uganda needs to take drastic action to stop this terrible we were homosexual agenda from invading their country. and that s where the kill the gays bill came from in uganda. it was american anti-gay, right-wing preachers going to that country to sell what they couldn t get here. is that an american pastor named kevin swan sim, him speaking in 2012 during the fight over the kill the gays bill in uganda, there wishing everybody would calm down about that kill the gays bill because,
evangelical activists suggested that law to ugandan legislators in 2009. after we covered that bill for so long, it looked like it was gone for a long time, but the bill came back and it was, in fact, signed into law yesterday. now, though, it is no longer a kill the gays bill. it s just a jail the gays for life bill or jail the gays for life law now in uganda. last week president obama cautioned the ugandan government if president museveni signed the law, it would complicate the united states relationship with the country. now that he s gone ahead and signed it, it s a burning question as to whether or not anything is going to change between the united states and uganda including how much foreign aid we give them. u.s. foreign aid to that country is $485 million in this current fiscal year according to the state department. today in congress, there was a move toward answering that burning question about what happens next when the chairman of the senate judiciary committee patrick lea
disgusting. but i was willing to ignore that if there was proof that how he s born, abnormal. but now the proof is not there. that was the president of uganda speaking yesterday right after he signed the kill the gays bill for that country which is a matter we ve been watching ever since american anti-gay evangelical activists suggested that law to ugandan legislators in 2009. after we covered that bill for so long, it looked like it was gone for a long time, but the bill came back and it was, in fact, signed into law yesterday. now, though, it is no longer a kill the gays bill. it s just a jail the gays for life bill or jail the gays for life law now in uganda. last week president obama cautioned the ugandan government if president museveni signed the law, it would complicate the united states relationship with the country. now that he s gone ahead and signed it, it s a burning question as to whether or not
that was the president of uganda speaking yesterday right after he signed the kill the gays bill for that country which is a matter we ve been watching ever since american anti-gay evangelical activists suggested that law to ugandan legislators in 2009. after we covered that bill for so long, it looked like it was gone for a long time, but the bill came back and it was, in fact, signed into law yesterday. now, though, it is no longer a kill the gays bill. it s just a jail the gays for life bill or jail the gays for life law now in uganda. last week president obama cautioned the ugandan government if president museveni signed the law, it would complicate the united states relationship with the country. now that he s gone ahead and signed it, it s a burning question as to whether or not anything is going to change between the united states and uganda including how much foreign aid we give them. u.s. foreign aid to that country
activists swore they had nothing to do with the kill the gays bill. the bill in uganda died after a wave of international outrage and condemnation. that 2009 bill was put on the shelf. it did not go away entirely. at the end of last year in december the parliament in uganda quietly took up the bill again. a revised version of the bill that doesn t include the sentence of death for being gay this time but does include lots of the other prison sentences that attracted so much international outrage years earlier. the ugandan parliament passed this bill in december and then earlier today, earlier this afternoon, you uganda s president signed the bill into law, calls for lifetime imprisonment for the crime of for being in a same-sex marriage, zempb years in prison for attempting to commit homosexuality. this bill at various times over the last few years has appeared to be dead but today it officially became the law of the land in uganda.