The signing of the law came despite fierce criticism from President Barack Obama and a warning that ties between Kampala and Washington would be damaged.
Ugandan President Signs Anti-gay Bill Into Law
February 24, 2014

Via AFP:

Uganda's president called homosexuals mercenaries and prostitutes Monday as he signed off on one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws, defying warnings from Western donors.

Yoweri Museveni said he could not understand how one could "fail to be attracted to all these beautiful women and be attracted to a man" instead and described in lurid detail his particular revulsion to oral sex.

"That is a really serious matter. There is something really wrong with you," Museveni, a devout evangelical Christian who has been in power nearly decades, said of gay men.

"Homosexuals are actually merc...

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