A shadow over democracy

The recent attempts to erase and further criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda casts a shadow over all democracies, but especially those who have aggressively sought to silence the LGBTI community. A key tenet of democracy is representation for all citizens. If a country wishes to be recognized as a democracy, it must apply those rights to all its citizens without exception. 

Few might agree with the extremes that Ugandan parliamentarians have taken against their LGBTI community.