The Daily Monitor reports:
A committee of Cabinet has made recommendations that could end Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s proposal to have a separate law punishing homosexuality in Uganda. The recommendations, which Saturday Monitor has seen, come close to dismissing Mr Bahati’s draft legislation.
Dr. James Nsaba Buturo isn’t very happy:
Dr Nsaba Buturo, the junior ethics minister, who has spoken fiercely against homosexuality, never attended this meeting. He has since complained to Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesigye, who chaired the committee, that the report did not reflect his views.
The article ends on an interesting note:
It was hoped, at least according to Dr Buturo, that the Cabinet committee would make certain amendments to the draft law. As it turned out, the committee critiqued Mr Bahati’s work so deeply that no amendments were proposed. Mr Mwesigye said on Thursday that he had no comment to make. Cabinet is yet to discuss the committee’s recommendations.
Things aren’t looking good for proponents of this egregious bill, are they?
Hate never wins.
Freethought Kampala 
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May 8, 2010 at 6:23 pm
AfroGay
It’s not clear what these people hope to achieve by revisiting this dud. Museveni killed it off in January. Or perhaps they have been living under a stone.
Buturo dear … your boss was prevailed upon to stop your Nazi bill and he duly complied in January. Next!!
May 8, 2010 at 7:20 pm
icearc
He seems to have a nostalgia for the old days. The dictators of past were control freaks but if any of their subordinates felt like wreaking havoc on the innocent populace, it was a free for all. After all this was the same much feared Buturo of old(Obote II) who used to load people on trucks, panda gari at Nakivubo. Unfortunately religion has a way of masking persons under the mantra of uncompromising(read “fundamentalist”) followers…………..same objective, different tact!
May 10, 2010 at 7:40 am
ilikebroccoli
am loving the kill bill theme… (Uma Thurman rocks!)… am pretty sure Bahati and his prayer breakfast cronies are in crisis meetings trying to figure out new ways to sneak the bill in…