Ugandan parliamentarian blasts Canadian Foreign Affairs minister over gay ‘marriage’ remark
QUEBEC, October 24, 2012 - The Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament , Ms. Rebecca Kadaga , took Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to task at an international summit in Quebec City for his remarks criticizing Uganda’s ban on same-sex “marriage.” Kadaga accused Baird of harboring a “colonial attitude” towards African nations and interfering in her country’s internal affairs, after Baird, in an address to the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), denounced Uganda for violating gay rights and oppressing homosexuals. Rebecca Kadaga Moreover, Ms. Kadaga claimed, according to a report by the Daily Trust, that Canada refused to grant entry visas to most Ugandan parliamentarians, and that she was prevented from making a presentation at the conference by the organizers, due to Uganda’s ban on same-sex “marriage.” Baird cited the brutal murder of homosexual activist David Kato as an example of the dangers faced by open homosexua...