Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has appealed to African countries to save the world from the »degeneration» and »decadence» of homosexuality, which aims to »wipe out all humanity on the face of the earth».
»Africa should provide the leadership to save the world from this degeneration and decadence which is really very dangerous for humanity. If people of the opposite sex stop appreciating each other, how will the human race propagate,» he asked Sunday during a speech, picked up Monday by public broadcaster UBC.
Museveni stressed, during a conference in Entebbe, that »broken families create homosexuals» and that same-sex unions are not genetic or hormonal, but respond to »psychological» problems while these relationships are »anti-humanity». »They should be banned in their entirety,» he said, also questioning sex education.
»Children are children. They need to grow up as children. How can you invade their childhood and start teaching them about adulthood?», he said, adding that »a person who proposes same-sex marriages seeks to wipe all humanity off the face of the earth».
The Ugandan president also congratulated Ugandan parliamentarians for passing the anti-LGBT bill and promised not to allow »the promotion and advertising of homosexuality», which will not be »tolerated» in the African country.
The recent law passed in Uganda that criminalizes the identity of LGBT people, with punishments that can reach life imprisonment and even the death penalty, has been condemned by various United Nations bodies.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, expressed that such legislation is »one of the worst of its kind in the world». In his opinion, it would mean a »carte blanche» for the »systematic violation» of Human Rights and would feed social hatred.
The United Nations had already detected an increase in hate speech against the LGTBI population and has echoed a study by a civil society group that denounced that, in February alone, there were more than 110 incidents against this community, from arrests to evictions, including sexual abuse or public harassment.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
