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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has asked the country’s lawmakers to make clear in a proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, local media reported.
This measure is part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation.
Last month, Ugandan lawmakers passed the proposed legislation, potentially one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, and sent it to the president for approval.
The planned law, or bill, criminalises a broad range of homosexual activity, including promoting or abetting the lifestyle and imposes stiff penalties including death for so called aggravated homosexuality.
In a letter to lawmakers, President Museveni said it was necessary to be clear and distinguish between someone who professes a homosexual lifestyle and someone who actually commits homosexual acts.
“The proposed law should be clear so that what is thought to be criminalized is not the state of one having a deviant proclivity but rather the actions of one acting on that deviancy,” Museveni wrote in the letter.
