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Uncle Sam isn’t liking Uganda’s new harsh anti-gay law — which criminalizes “aggravated homosexuality” — and we might just do something about it as a nation to condemn it.
President Biden’s Sec. of State, Anthony Blinken, spoke out against the African nation’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which just got signed into law, and he says the U.S. will now consider visa restrictions against Ugandan officials and others for what he calls a human rights abuse.
Blinken says he’s instructed the State Dept. to update travel guidance as well for Americans who might want to travel to Uganda for business or pleasure — so, perhaps restricting travel.
As for POTUS … he’s also slamming the law, and says he might even impose sanctions against Uganda over this — adding he would review the ramifications of the law “on all aspects of U.S. engagement with Uganda.”
As for what is actually illegal now … well, it’s murky. Uganda says one can still identify as gay or as part of the LGBT community — but that any promotion of homosexuality or any overt public acts of homosexuality, as it’s vaguely described, is punishable by prison.
This Uganda law is horrific & wrong.
Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” is grotesque & an abomination.
ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse.#LGBTQ https://t.co/tTIMR8VtqW
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 29, 2023
@tedcruz
If you’re thinking our politicians here would be divided on this, you’d be wrong — at least as it pertains to Sen. Ted Cruz, anyway … who publicly called out Uganda for overstepping.
He wrote, “This Uganda law is horrific & wrong. Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” is grotesque & an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse.”
The reactions are mixed — some are calling him a hypocrite, GOPers are calling him a traitor.