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We don't 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 country's kill the gays bill. this version does not call for homosexuality to be punishable by death but rather by lifetime imprisonment. so that's a nice improvement. after uganda's president signed that bill into law today, the u.s. government plans to review our nation's relationship with uganda including a review of foreign aid to that country. joining us now for the interview is jeff sharlet who's been reporting on the ugandan ...

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 it's been proved, it's been proven they're born that way. that is a lie. that's what's called a lie. it is not true. there is no definitive scientific study that has ever proved that homosexuality -- >> these activists traveled to africa and urged the ugandans they met with including legi...

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 years in prison for knowing somebody was gay and not reporting them to government. the kill the gays b...

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 activists who had been in uganda earlier that year urging zero tolerance for homosexuality were claiming...

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 over there. they were there it turns out to give this ugandan group an american anti-gay perspective o...