“Homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recruitment by gay people in schools, and especially among the youth, where they are promoting the falsehood that people are born like that,” Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The bill – colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda – was nullified five years ago on a technicality and the government said it plans to resurrect it within weeks. Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in unnatural sex in the east African nation. 10, Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Simon Lokodo, told the Reuters news agency that the country’s government intended to revive a failed 2014 bill, known at the time as the “Kill the Gays” bill, that would make “grave acts” of homosexuality punishable by death. The following is our analysis of those claims: Anti-LGBT bill The tweet consists of three discrete factual claims: that in October 2019, Uganda’s government announced legislation that would legalize murdering LGBT people that the U.S.-based National Christian Organization was involved in devising, encouraging, or lobbying for that legislation and that Chick-fil-A funds the National Christian Organization.
The tweet was further promulgated when users on Facebook shared screenshots of it, including the popular, left-leaning page The Other 98%:
