In the conservative, mostly Christian country, many religious leaders and politicians have painted same-sex relations as a Western import.
“Africans are being used to accept this nonsense of the Western world, and homosexuality is on the agenda,” James Nsaba Buturo, a former minister of ethics and integrity, said in March.
Justine Balya, a director at the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, said the new law, and the draconian punishments it outlines, had intimidated gay Ugandans. “It has been a brutal three months for the community in Uganda,” said Balya, who argued that the law was unconstitutional. “People are freaking out,” Mugisha said, adding that many gay or lesbian Ugandans feared they could be arrested at any time and that he worried about an increase in blackmail as a result.The anti-gay effort drew support from local Christian and Muslim groups along with the financial and logistical backing of conservative evangelical groups in the United States. Politicians insisted that homosexuality was undermining Ugandan stability and putting children at risk.
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