The Bahati Bill is still lurking in the undergrowth, of course; views are divided among the ‘political cognoscenti’ I know on whether it will be quietly shelved ‘by accident’. The sponsors of the Bill, and the chair of the relevant parliamentary committee, say that it will be considered before the end of the Eighth Parliament, as Warren has reported. One contact of mine thinks that an amended Bill could be passed by Parliament, but then ‘somehow not be signed into law’ … the point of this being to allow Parliament to ‘let off steam’ without jeopardising UG’s foreign policy.

The political situation in UG does seem confused at the moment. The issue of ‘homosexuality’ doesn’t seem to be featuring much in the election campaign

Well, it never featured in previous elections. But then that did not stop the Penal Act Code of 1950 from being amended in 2000 and “same-sex marriage” from constitutional ban in 2005. I really do not see gayism as an election issue in Uganda. This is why I said in a comment in the other thread that it was “politically-safe” for the paper-light weight Colonel (Dr.) Kizza Besigye to raise the matter because he knew that the pro-gay western media will pick up his opinion on scrapping the sodomy law while the local media will not pick it since it is too engrossed on reporting important events such as the latest spat between the Ugandan State and Buganda monarchy over the “Cultural and Traditional Leaders Bill”

I’ll ‘enjoy’ your games as well – although ‘enjoy’ isn’t perhaps the right word, as your games could wreck innocent people’s lives. Mine are essentially benign.

Hello ‘Maazi’!

I’ll ‘enjoy’ your games as well – although ‘enjoy’ isn’t perhaps the right word, as your games could wreck innocent people’s lives. Mine are essentially benign.

I am confident that everyone in Uganda is presumed innocent until convicted by a court of law. So I am not sure what you mean by “wrecking innocent lives”. Even the day after the revised Bahati Bill becomes law, any individual who believes in rule of law and conforms to the letter of the law shall remain “innocent” and will have nothing to fear.