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Brewery Cuts Ties With Pro Fisherman Over Support for Uganda Anti-Gay Law

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Twitter account has been deleted, but screenshots posted on social media showed him responding to a tweet from Texas Senator Ted Cruz discussing the new anti-gay law. "With Uganda on this one," Dyer reportedly said in response to the law.The announcement by the Canyon Club Brewery comes shortly after Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed new legislation that imposes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," the Associated Press reported. "Aggravated homosexuality" is seen as sexual relationships with people who have HIV or with minors, according to the Associated Press.

The legislation, however, does not criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ+.Shortly after the legislation was announced, Cruz responded in opposition on Twitter saying, "This Uganda law is horrific & wrong.""Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality' is grotesque & an abomination," Cruz said. "ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse."U.S.

President Joe Biden also responded to the legislation and said in a statement, "The enactment of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act is a tragic violation of universal human rights—one that is not worthy of the Ugandan people, and one that jeopardizes the prospects of critical economic growth for the entire country.""This shameful Act is the latest development in an alarming trend of human rights abuses and corruption in Uganda," Biden said. "As such, I have directed my National Security Council to evaluate the implications of this law on all aspects of U.S.

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