President Biden and Sen. Ted Cruz spoke out over Uganda President Yoweri Museveni signing a law giving the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality.'
Lawmakers in Uganda debated and passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act Tuesday, then broke out in celebratory song. nation of Uganda allowing the death penalty for"aggravated homosexuality."
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, condemned a new Ugandan law imposing the death penalty for"aggravated homosexuality" as"grotesque & an abomination." The White House noted that the U.S. government invests nearly $1 billion annually in Uganda’s people, business, institutions and military. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad on Monday, May 29, 2023.
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