{"id":2205,"date":"2023-03-21T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:50:15","slug":"ugandan-president-blasts-western-countries-for-promoting-lgbt-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan President Blasts Western Countries For Promoting LGBT in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWestern countries should stop wasting their time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2206\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102.png 800w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102-770x404.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102-293x154.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-102-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has blasted western countries for promoting LGBT issues in Africa, accusing them of \u201cwasting the time of humanity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the East African country made the remarks during a parliamentary address before lawmakers prepared to vote on a bill related to the same matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would impose harsher penalties for those found to be promoting LGBT activist causes in a country where homosexuality is already illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda has been threatened with sanctions if it continues to refuse to implement western-style protections for LGBT, but Museveni has rejected attempts to influence his country, framing it as a form of cultural hegemony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEuropeans and other groups marry cousins and near relatives. Here, marrying in one\u2019s clan is taboo. Should we impose sanctions on them for marrying relatives? This is not our job,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWestern countries should stop wasting the time of humanity by trying to impose their practices on other people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under President Barack Obama, the US cut off aid to Uganda in 2014 and cancelled a military exercise there in response to a law that attempted to impose a term of lifetime imprisonment for \u201caggravated homosexuality,\u201d which includes sex with a minor or while HIV-positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aid cut meant that a $2.4 million Ugandan community policing program project had to be abandoned following a police raid on a US-funded health program at Makerere University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the same parliamentary speech, Museveni called gay people \u201cdeviants\u201d and said that homosexuality was not normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy? Is it by nature or nurture. We need to answer these questions. We need a medical opinion on that. We shall discuss it thoroughly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite homosexuality being technically illegal in Uganda, there hasn\u2019t been a conviction for consensual same-sex relations since the country gained independence from Britain in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/03\/20\/ugandan-president-blasts-western-countries-for-promoting-lgbt-in-africa\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/03\/20\/ugandan-president-blasts-western-countries-for-promoting-lgbt-in-africa\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWestern countries should stop wasting their time.\u201d Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has blasted western countries for promoting LGBT issues in Africa, accusing them of \u201cwasting the time of humanity.\u201d The president of the East African country made the remarks during a parliamentary address before lawmakers prepared to vote on a bill related to the same matter. The bill would impose harsher penalties for those found to be promoting LGBT activist causes in a country where homosexuality is already illegal. Uganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}