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We dont want anybody to interfere in our internal affairs. finished. >> that was the president of uganda earlier today signing into law an updated version of that countrys kill the gays bill. this version does not call for homosexuality to be punishable by death but rather by lifetime imprisonment. so thats a nice improvement. after ugandas president signed that bill into law today, the u.s. government plans to review our nations relationship with uganda including a review of foreign aid to that...

Eventually some undercover video recordings of the conference came out and it became clear what exactly these american activists were up to over there. they were there it turns out to give this ugandan group an american anti-gay perspective on the evils of homosexuality. >> they say gays are born that way and its been proved, its been proven theyre born that way. that is a lie. thats whats called a lie. it is not true. there is no definitive scientific study that has ever proved that homosexuali...

Presented themselves as scientific experts on the subject. they claimed people can be cured of being gay and then they came back home. that trip to uganda, again, took place in march 2009. seven months later this bill appeared in the ugandan parliament. anti-homosexuality bill of 2009, known as kill the gays bill. called first for a sentence of life in prison just for being gay. called for a sentence of death by hanging for the death of being gay and hiv positive. could be sentenced for three ye...

Seven months later this bill appeared in the ugandan parliament. anti-homosexuality bill of 2009, known as kill the gays bill. called first for a sentence of life in prison just for being gay. called for a sentence of death by hanging for the death of being gay and hiv positive. could be sentenced for three years in prison for knowing somebody was gay and not reporting them to government. the kill the gays bill landed with a thud on the world stage and almost as soon as it did, the american acti...

Appear and speak at that conference. it was unclear at the time what that conference was going to be all about exactly. in march of that year as expected, these three american evangelical activists traveled to uganda and spoke at that conference and participated in a number of follow-up meetings which reportedly included members of the ugandan parliament. eventually some undercover video recordings of the conference came out and it became clear what exactly these american activists were up to ov...

The radar. the one thing they do that everybody knows about is they run the national prayer breakfast every year in washington. other than that, they pretty much keep things as quiet as they can. that group, that american religious group it turns out has ties to the specific ugandan legislator who introduced the anti-homosexuality bill. the man who introduced the kill the gays bill in uganda is a member of the family, yes? >> yes. a young member of parliament, david bahadi, rising star who has b...

So its moved from sort of the tea party of uganda to become the mainstream of uganda. and i think when you talk to ugandans about homosexuality theres an idea that you here again and again, which is that homosexuality is a disease that comes from america. but theyre quick to say but the cure comes from america, too. they see the cure in the form of these sort of right-wing ideas that they adopt whole cloth from american right-wing think tanks, american right-wing evangelical organizations. >> je...

Upon signing the bill, you goug president announced homosexual behavior was learned and could be unlearned which is after all something ugandan legislators have been told for years. five years in fact. exactly. hold on. theres more. i dont use super poligrip for hold because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, its ...

For somebody to be a ho homosexual is a combination of some genetic but mainly external factors, like influence and so on and so forth. we dont want anybody to interfere in our internal affairs. finished. >> that was the president of uganda earlier today signing into law an updated version of that countrys kill the gays bill. this version does not call for homosexuality to be punishable by death but rather by lifetime imprisonment. so thats a nice improvement. after ugandas president signed that...

Capital punishment part of what was called for in the bill. we did lots of reporting on this at the time and learned that even though these american activists were trying desperately to distance themselves from the kill the gays bill when it came out, prominent ugandans aware of how the bill came to be were crediting the same americans for helping with and inspiring the legislation. one priest we spoke with said members of the ugandan parliament present at the march conference left the meetings ...