'Kill the Gays' Bill Update

• After much global outcry, in December, Uganda’s “Kill the Gays Bill” was stalled in parliament.  The bill which would sentence lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people to death failed to pass.  Just before that, Rebecca Kadaga, speaker of the Ugandan parliament, promised to bring a vote on the proposed law (first introduced in 2009) as a “Christmas gift” to the Ugandan population. 
• At the same time, the Pope gave his blessing to Rebecca Kadagabefore she attended a conference in Rome on human rights.
• Parliament in Uganda will reconvene in February, but that hasn’t stoppedUgandan priests from speaking out in support of this bill.  Bishop David Kiganda, leader of the Christianity Focus Ministries and overseer of Bornagain Churches has asked Parliament to: “stop wasting time debating the Bill” and “simply pass it to save school-going children, who are at risk of being recruited [by homosexuals].  Our leaders should desist from any act that would frustrate this proposed law because it has delayed.”  
• Dr. Joseph Sserwadda, leader of the Born Again federation of Uganda,is quoted as saying that there is an urgent need for the anti-gay law, because the country needs to confront sin head on.  ”We have learnt with shock that the people who recently appeared in the papers over the same practice have escaped to the USA. We know the USA with their policy will not deport them back to Uganda. Uganda should declare that it does not need him anymore. Let America keep them.”
• Pastors have warned politicians that if they bowed to international pressure to drop the bill they would lose their seats.  A minister from the UK, Reverend Paul Schinners, praised Uganda for the bill saying, “There is no other nation world over that has such a plan and through this, Uganda is going to be blessed.”
• It must be noted that the media does not give very much attention to this story.  Cable news networks underreported reemergence of the “Kill The Gays” Bill, and chose to focus more on Gangnam Style instead.  Fox News showed absolutely 0 minutes of coverage of this story from October 31 to December 5, compared to 9:51 of coverage of Gangnam Style.  By contrast, CNN covered 11:02 minutes of the Kill the Gays Bill and 17:47 of Gangnam Style. 

This is where the Ugandan Kill the Gays law stands as of the beginning of January.