UGANDA
The penalty was reduced to 14 years and in 2009 the Parliament began debating a bill that would inflict the death penalty for homosexuality. See {635359}. Uganda is a mostly Christian (Protestant and Catholic) country where the clergies all tend to be fundamentalist and interpret the Bible Literally. The Book of Leviticus calls for the death penalty for homosexuality and supports of the act use the Bible as a commandment of God. Of course, adultery is also a capital crime in the Bible, but few in Uganda want to follow God’s commandment on adultery. Homophobia is rampant there.
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the southwest by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. Uganda is the world's second most populous landlocked country after Ethiopia. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate.
