Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’ days after the government passed legislation jailing all gay people and introducing the death penalty for some ‘offences’.

Uganda’s president has called on Africa to “save the world from homosexuality” days after the Ugandan parliament passed a controversial bill to imprison all gay people.

It suggests that President Yoweri Museveni will sign the shocking law into Ugandan law that will impose the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”.

Ugandans are banned by law from “promoting and encouraging” homosexuality and conspiring to have same-sex relationships, which human rights groups have condemned as “horrific”.

Museveni said Sunday that homosexuality is “a great threat and danger to human reproduction.”

“Africa must take the lead in saving the world from this degeneration and decadence which is really very dangerous for humanity,” said the president.

On March 21, the Ugandan parliament passed a law that will ensure that all gay men end up in prison

“If people of the opposite sex stop appreciating each other, how will the human race reproduce?”

The controversial comments followed a two-day inter-parliamentary conference at State House in Entebbe, which was attended by MPs and delegates from 22 African countries.

A number of unnamed British MPs attended the conference on “Family Values ​​and Sovereignty”, sponsored by the Ugandan Parliament, the African Bar Association and the Nigeria-based Foundation for African Cultural Heritage.

Some attended the conference online, hosted by Family Group International – an American evangelical Christian group that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors far-right groups, has identified as an anti-LGBT organization.

The anti-homosexuality law was passed late on March 21 in a packed parliament hall in the capital Kampala.

An appeal has been ordered by the Speaker of the House, who has repeatedly warned of the need to identify those who might breach the legislation. It was supported by almost all of the 389 legislators present.

Spokesperson Anita Among said: “Congratulations. Whatever we do, we do it for the people of Uganda.”

Bubulo MP John Musira wore an anti-gay dress during the debate on the controversial law

Amnesty International then called on Museveni to veto the “appalling” anti-gay law, warning that it was a “serious attack” on LGBTQ people.

However, based on the president’s recent statements, this seems unlikely.

Museveni even praised Uganda’s MPs for passing the Anti-Gay Law, declaring that the promotion of homosexuality “will never be tolerated”.

A Ugandan gay rights activist who attended the Entebbe conference via Zoom accused Uganda of “establishing an African strategy to combat homosexuality,” reports the Guardian.

The bill was introduced last month by an opposition lawmaker who said its aim was to punish “promotion, recruitment and funding” related to LGBTQ activities.

Activists from the Ugandan High Commission in South Africa hold up banners to protest the anti-homosexuality law

It creates the criminal offense of “aggravated homosexuality”, which applies to sexual relations with persons infected with HIV, as well as minors and other categories of vulnerable persons.

The bill also provides for the crime of “attempted homosexuality,” which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

An earlier version of the bill, dating from 2014, was later overturned by a court on procedural grounds. The East African country is notorious for its intolerance of homosexuality, which was a criminal offense under colonial-era laws.

Same-sex acts are already punishable by life imprisonment under a colonial-era law aimed at “carnal knowledge against the order of nature,” which was part of the basis of a report by dissidents in the parliamentary committee that passed the law before the vote.