(And things that ‘Maazi NCO MP’ have said do accord with the general thesis in the article. Interestingly, ‘the West’ is not exactly given ‘a round of applause’ either!)

(I do like a bit of clever politics in a good cause!)

And anteros is quite correct about arrests of gays, e.g.: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-arrested-tortured-gay-ugandan.html

Clause 2 of the Bill has nothing to with rape or defilement; Clause 3 mandates death for both consensual and non-consensual sex. We muzungus CAN read … and read the Bill (with and without Tahsobya’s ‘little changes’) we have. We know what the Bill says, even if ‘Maazi’ and BBC are having ‘reading difficulties’. (The BBC has reported that the [quick] death penalty has been removed, having perhaps been fooled by Trashy Tashy’s little ‘play on words’ last May.)

The designation of Bahati as a “back bencher” may be intended to make it seem that Bahati is an insignificant figure in Uganda. However, this is not the case. Bahati is currently the deputy chief whip for the ruling National Resistance Movement

The Honourable MP David Bahati (Ndorwa West) was indeed a “back-bencher” in 2009 when the bill was introduced. He only became deputy chief whip of the parliamentary wing of his political party recently. Therefore, the statement issued by the Executive Branch of the Ugandan State is “technically correct”. I must say I am pleased that the Executive will not be interfering in the democratic processes of this parliament. The cabinet ministers are free to butter up Westerners and lick their backsides, but the Executive Branch must let parliament do its work without hindrance. No foreigner will get right of veto in our parliament.

Warren…. What is confusing here, and perhaps intentionally so, is the statement above that the bill would not lead to the death penalty. The plain language of the bill does require it for HIV positive people and serial offenders. And, let’s remember, life in a Ugandan prison is also called for in this bill for any homosexual intimacy.

They don’t know what they’re talking about in the bill at all in the first place. They already had a defilement law. And this bill violates basic human rights.

not true at all…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkXV7eUBf94