Pastors in Jinja organized a nonviolent protest on Saturday, calling on President Yoweri Museveni to sign the recently passed anti-homosexuality bill.
They were supported by their umbrella organization, the Christian Leaders Fellowship (CLF).
The pastors contended that Museveni has been silent on the issue ever since Parliament passed the bill last month while conducting a nonviolent demonstration through many Jinja city streets.
The pastors, who were joined by Muslim clerics, students from the local school, and a large number of their followers held signs with slogans applauding the Parliament for approving the bill and urging the President to sign it right away.
They contend that because Museveni has publicly expressed his displeasure with gays in a number of forums, including those run by Zachariah Sserwadda, the umbrella organization’s supervisor, he ought to do the same by signing the measure into law.
Sserwadda contends that homosexual tendencies are forbidden by both the bible and African cultural frameworks, and that the top authorities of this nation should take the lead in all efforts to prevent such activities in the nation.
Another pastor, Vicky Lubega, believes that after the measure is signed, the government should provide those reformers who are prepared to change and give up homosexuality a two-month amnesty.
Such people, according to Lubega, should receive psychological and spiritual counseling so they can significantly break their old patterns.
According to Abdul Mulaabi, an imam from Mpumudde, homosexual tendencies are becoming more prevalent among school-age youngsters and their younger peers, the majority of whom want to make quick cash from gay rights advocates around the world.
