Sponsors Cut Ties With Pro Fisherman Over His Support Of Uganda’s New ‘Kill The Gays’ Law
A high-end brewery in California has officially cut ties with professional fisherman Blake Dyer after he expressed support for a new anti-gay law in Uganda. “We learned of Mr Dyer’s view this morning and immediately severed our relationship with him.
We could not disagree more strenuously with Mr. Dyer’s view and the abomination that is going on in Uganda,” the Canyon Club Brewery in California said in response to a tweet that shared screenshots of Dyer’s support of the new law.
Last week, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter to denounce the Ugandan government’s new law that makes being gay a crime punishable by death.
In response to Cruz’s tweet, Dyer posted: “With Uganda on this one.” Dyer’s Twitter account has since been deleted. 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 AP.
