Renowned anti-gay activist Pastor Martin Sempa has appealed to the Parliamentary legal affairs Committee to expeditiously pass the Anti- Homosexuality bill.
During his submission to the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Sempa says that they agreed under the Uganda Joint Christian Council to remove the death penalty from the bill because it was not a behavioral corrective measure.
Pastor Martin Ssempa
He says they agreed that such a person who is convicted of aggravated sodomy should serve a life sentence or any sentence defined by the law.
He notes that they want the law to be fair in dealing with the rape and defilement of boys just like it is to the same acts against the girls.
Sempa however says that many Religious leaders softened on their stern opposition of the act following threats from donor countries.
He says there are many people in schools, media, legal profession and other professions who are promoting and recruiting young people into homosexuality.
Sempa says such people need to be severely punished under a more stringent law so that people can distance themselves from such characters.
The Committee on Friday started public hearings of the controversial bill and is expected to pass it into law before the end of its term on May 12th 2011.
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