Uganda president condemns anti-gay law, says 'abnormal' people should not be killed

Uganda’s president says he opposes an anti-homosexuality bill passed by MPs and that “abnormal” people should not be jailed or killed.

In a letter to the speaker of parliament, President Yoweri Museveni said homosexuals needed what he called economic rehabilitation, claiming some people become homosexual for “mercenary reasons”—they get recruited on account of financial inducements. He said this is a group that could be rescued and that many of the youth fell in this category.