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U.K. to Bar Uganda MP if Antigay Bill Passes


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David Bahati, the member of Uganda's parliament who sponsored legislation that would impose the death penalty on gay people, will be barred from traveling to the United Kingdom if the bill passes. The fate of the antigay bill remains unclear to British diplomats.

According to London's Guardian, “Civil servants in the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Borders Agency are drawing up plans to block the visa of born-again Christian MP David Bahati if he does not drop legislation that would see consenting adults who have gay sex imprisoned for life and impose the death penalty on those with HIV — which will be called ‘aggravated homosexuality.’”

Despite the diplomatic threat to rescind Bahati’s visa, British officials have not received a clear sense of the bill’s fate from Uganda officials.

“Ugandan government officials appear to be using stalling tactics, suggesting it will not come to a vote until 2011, deflecting pressure from a government that could change in the forthcoming general election,” reports the Guardian. 

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Lisa
    Date posted: 4/21/2010 12:17:24 PM
    Hometown: Sacramento

    Comment:

    Good. We ought to bar him from the US as well and cutoff any aid we send to them as longas any hint of this homophobia is on the table.

  • Name: scott
    Date posted: 4/21/2010 6:00:31 AM
    Hometown: boise

    Comment:

    im thoroughly unimpressed. should they come out and declare an arrest warrant for him for crimes against humanity and declare that he will be arrested and imprisoned should he ever come to london i would be a little more gracious, but this is a slap in the face. Thanks london, you've done almost as little as washington.

  • Name: melvin
    Date posted: 4/21/2010 3:26:08 AM
    Hometown: South Dakota

    Comment:

    The pussy-footing of our own government is nauseating. If they ware working behind the scenes, damn good job as no one has a clue!

  • Name: Stephen
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 4:08:38 PM
    Hometown: Rockville Centre

    Comment:

    Rule Britannia

  • Name: Brent
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 3:15:42 PM
    Hometown: Minot, ND

    Comment:

    It won't be long before we find out this guy is raping little boys too.

  • Name: Jay
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 2:52:41 PM
    Hometown: Santa Monica

    Comment:

    At least the UK has some balls. Now if the State Department would do the same . . . . Nah, we're likely to continue giving these depraved ignoramuses money.

  • Name: Bill
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 2:32:12 PM
    Hometown: Arlington

    Comment:

    Wonderful to hear. We would not consider allowing a nazi sympathizer to enter this country. This pig is not better



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