or more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda."
Obama himself was critized attending the National Prayer Breakfast because it is annually hosted by a christian-fundamentalistic Organization called The Fellowship Foundation (also known as The Family), which co-wrote the Ugandian anti-gay-bill indirectly and which is anything but gay-friendly.
Meanwhile the controversial draft legislation is even questioned in Uganda: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni advised to reconsider the death penalty especially for HIV-infected gays. Museveni is afraid of further international condemnation - and he might be right: After the USA and the EU already protested in strongest terms against the anti-gay-bill in December 2009 and even the Vatikan clarified his point of view as clearly as never before, the United Nations critizied Uganda blisteringly: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay named the bill “blatantly discriminatory”, reminding urgently “the Ugandan Government of the country’s obligations under international human rights law."
Anti-gay-press in Uganda (Red Pepper)The turmoil of the last weeks already might have made an impact: David Bahati, Ugandan MP and author of the worldwide disputed Ugandan anti-gay-bill, intimated that he possibly is willing to change his draft legislation.
How Germany will eventually answer to a possible ratification of the anti-gay-bill can be awaited with bated breath. During last year´s electoral campaign today´s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle (openly living gay himself) announced to cancel development aid for the countries implementing gay-discriminating policies. Indeed this reaction is quite unlikely, but German government openly considers cuts: “Our development policy is not only orientated on interests, but also on values”, development aid minister Dirk Niebel said