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Uganda's anti-gay bill will be passed before the end of 2012 despite international criticism of the draft legislation, the speaker of the country's parliament said Monday, insisting it is what most Ugandans want. 
  
 Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told The Associated Press that the bill, which originally mandated death for some gay acts, will become law this year. 
  
 Ugandans "are demanding it," she said, reiterating a promise she made before a meeting on Friday of anti-gay activists who spoke of "the serious threat" posed by homosexuals to Uganda's children. Some Christian clerics at the meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, asked the speaker to pass the law as "a Christmas gift." 
  
 "Speaker, we cannot sit back while such (a) destructive phenomenon is taking place in our nation," the activists said in a petition. "We therefore, as responsible citizens, feel duty-bound to bring this matter to your attention as the leader of Parliament ... so that lawmakers can do something to quickly address the deteriorating situation in our nation." 
  
 The anti-gay activists paraded in front of Kadaga, with parents and schoolchildren holding up signs saying homosexuality is "an abomination." The speaker then promised to consider the bill within two weeks, declaring that "the power is in our hands." 
  
 "Who are we not to do what they have told us? These people should not be begging us," Kadaga said of activists who want the bill to become law. 
  
 Uganda's penal code criminalizes homosexuality, but in 2009 a lawmaker with the ruling party said a stronger law was needed to protect Uganda's children from homosexuals. Parliamentarian David Bahati charged at the time that wealthy homosexuals from the West were "recruiting" poor children into gay lifestyles with promises of money and a better life. Bahati believes his bill is sufficiently popular among lawmakers to pass without difficulty. 
  
 Gay rights activists in Uganda, while opposing the bill, point out that it has helped their fight for equality by putting what used to be a taboo subject on the national agenda. Homosexuality is illegal in many African countries. 
  
 Pepe Julian Onziema, a prominent Ugandan gay activist, said the new push to pass the law was frustrating. 
  
 "It's disappointing, but we are also going to seek a meeting with the speaker," Onziema said. But it is unlikely the speaker will agree to such a gathering, he said. 
  
 While the bill appears to be popular in Uganda, it has attracted widespread criticism abroad. President Barack Obama has described it as "odious," while some European countries have threatened to cut aid to Uganda if the bill becomes law. ||||| Image caption Ugandan gay people often fear living openly 
  
 Uganda will pass a new law against homosexuality by the end of 2012 as a "Christmas gift" to its advocates, the speaker of parliament has said. 
  
 The AP news agency quoted Rebecca Kadaga as saying that Ugandans were "demanding" the law. 
  
 Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, but the bill which is before parliament proposes tougher sentences for people convicted. 
  
 Foreign donors have threatened to cut aid if gay rights are not respected. 
  
 The bill, tabled by MP David Bahati, proposes jail terms for homosexual acts, including a life sentence in certain circumstances. 
  
 It prohibits the "promotion" of gay rights and calls for the punishment of anyone who "funds or sponsors homosexuality" or "abets homosexuality". 
  
 But a clause which calls for the death penalty against people found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality" - defined as when one of the participants is a minor, HIV-positive, disabled or a "serial offender" - is to be dropped, Mr Bahati has said. 
  
 If homosexuality is a value for the people of Canada they should not seek to force Uganda to embrace it Rebecca Kadaga, Ugandan parliamentary speaker 
  
 Diplomatic spat 
  
 The bill was strongly condemned last year by Western leaders, including US President Barack Obama who described it as "odious". 
  
 International donors have threatened to cut off aid to Uganda if the country does not do more to protect the rights of gay people. 
  
 Ms Kadaga said she hoped the bill, first tabled in 2009 and now before a parliamentary committee, would be passed by the end of the year, Reuters news agency reports. 
  
 "Ugandans want that law as a Christmas gift. They have asked for it and we'll give them that gift," Ms Kadaga is quoted as saying. 
  
 Last month, Ms Kadaga was involved in a row with Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird over gay rights at a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Quebec. 
  
 When Mr Bairn warned Uganda not to trample on people's human rights, Ms Kadaga replied: "If homosexuality is a value for the people of Canada they should not seek to force Uganda to embrace it. We are not a colony or a protectorate of Canada." 
  
 She received a rapturous welcome from several hundred anti-gay activists, including religious leaders, at Uganda's Entebbe airport when she returned from her trip. 
  
 In June, Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo said 38 non-governmental organisations which he accused of promoting homosexuality would be banned. 
  
 Clare Byarugaba, the co-ordinator of Uganda's Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, said the group would challenge the law in the constitutional court, Reuters reports. 
  
 "The international community supports us and we also believe in the constitution of our country which protects the rights and freedoms of everyone," she is quoted as saying. 
  
 Correspondents say many Ugandans are deeply conservative, and say homosexuality is against their religious and cultural beliefs. |||||

The speaker of Uganda's parliament has promised a "Christmas gift" to the country's conservative Christian clerics: one of the world's harshest anti-gay laws. Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, but the bill the speaker has vowed to pass before the end of the year bans the "promotion" of gay rights and calls for the punishment of anyone who "funds or sponsors homosexuality" or "abets homosexuality," the BBC reports. The bill will bring a tougher sentence for people convicted of some homosexual acts, although a clause introducing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" has been dropped. Ugandans "are demanding" the anti-gay law, the speaker told the AP before of a meeting of anti-gay activists who spoke of the "serious threat" gays posed to the country's children. The bill has been strongly criticized overseas, with President Obama calling it "odious" and some European countries threatening to withdraw aid if it is passed.