Ugandan lawmaker introduces legislation to prohibit homosexuality in the country

Legislation to prohibit sexuality in Uganda was proposed by a lawmaker on Tuesday. The bill would punish "promotion, recruitment, and funding" of LGBTQ related activies.

"You are either with us or you're with the Western world," Speaker Anita Among said, announcing that legislators would show support by raising their hands when the bill eventually is put to a vote. "We should be counted, and we are going to vote by show of hands on this matter," she said.

Same-sex relations in Uganda are already criminalized under a colonial-era penal code. Harsh anti-gay legislation enacted in 2014 later was annulled by a panel of judges amid international condemnation. That bill in its original draft had called for the death penalty for some homosexual acts.