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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 been over to the united states for our national prayer breakfast and has taken something of an organi...

So it's 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 there's an idea that you here again and again, which is that homosexuality is a disease that comes from america. but they're 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. >> jeff, do you see parallels in the type of american activism that led to this in uganda and what's h...

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. there's more. i don't 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, it's clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while ...

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 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 ...

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 saying they needed to draft a new law to deal with the homosexual ity issue. we learned it was not j...