Protests and plaudits as anti-gay law is passed in Uganda

From The Church Times-

THE President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, signed the country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law on Monday, despite opposition from international governments, human-rights groups, and church leaders overseas.

President Museveni had previously indicated that he would not sign the Bill, saying that it was "wrong to punish somebody on account of being born abnormal".

But he says that he changed his mind after receiving the "unanimous conclusion" of the country's Department of Genetics, the School of Medicine, and the Ministry of Health that "homosexuality, contrary to my earlier thinking, was behavioural and not genetic. Itwas learnt and could be unlearnt."

Last week, the Archbishop of York, Dr Sentamu, advised the President against signing. He "simply couldn't understand", he said, why a new law was needed. The existing law, imposed during British rule, had never been repealed.

More here-

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/28-february/news/world/protests-and-plaudits-as-anti-gay-law-is-passed-in-uganda

also here-

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/world/Uganda-slapped-with-aid-cuts-over-anti-gay-law/articleshow/31130010.cms