Uganda lawmaker would kill gay son

By Ruth Schneider, 365gay.com

A member of Uganda’s parliament – which is currently debating an anti-gay bill that would punish homosexuality with death – said Friday at a human rights forum he would kill his own son if he found out his son were gay.

The forum’s keynote speaker, Makau Mutua, immediately denounced MP Otto Odonga for his comment.

“I am baffled by the kind of hatred you spew against gay people, including your desire to be a hangman,” Mutua tod the forum, Xtra, a gay news source in Canada, reported. “Would you apply to be a hangman if the person to be hanged were your son?”

When Odonga nodded her would, Mutua added “There is something deeply wrong with you.”

Another member of parliament also spoke out against the vices of homosexuality and bisexuality.

“Who are bisexuals? What do they do? Has it just been imported into Africa?” said Christopher Kibanzanga.

Mutua again struck back.

“It’s important that we all try to expose ourselves to knowledge, to keep on growing,” he said. “People who express extremist views are, in my view, always the ones who have read the least.”