US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both slammed the Ugandan government for considering its 'Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009' - with Obama describing the measure as "odious."
"We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it's unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are, whether it's here in the United States, or … more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda," Obama has told a gathering of lawmakers and religious leaders in Washington DC.
"We are standing up for gays and lesbians, who deserve to be treated as full human beings," agreed Clinton. "I recently called [Ugandan] President Museveni, whom I have known through the Prayer Breakfast, and expressed the strongest concerns about a law being considered in the parliament of Uganda."
If it passes into law, the Anti Homosexuality Bill currently before Uganda's parliament would see some homosexual 'offences' punishable by death.
The country's ethics minister James Nsaba Buturo has already dismissed the United States' disapproval of the Bill. "Why do they feel that they can tell us what we should do in the interest of our people?" he challenged, vowing that Uganda's MPs would not be swayed by global criticism.
On the video below: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's public condemnation of Uganda's Anti Homosexual Bill.
