As Prop 8 is ruled unconstitutional in U.S. court, Uganda reintroduces anti-gay bill to Parliament As a U.S. federal appeals court Tuesday struck down Prop 8, California's same-sex marriage ban since 2008, another battle for gay rights played out across the Atlantic. A man demonstrates outside of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on February 7, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan - GETTY IMAGES) In Uganda, an anti-gay bill was reintroduced Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. In its first iteration, the bill suggested the death penalty for homosexual acts, cases of same-sex rape and for people living with HIV. The bill sparked an international outcry, including from President Obama. But while Prop 8 has had many detractors in the U.S., it's a different story for Uganda's anti-gay bill. Homosexuality is stigmatized in the country and already illegal under the penal code. The anti-gay bill has garnered wide support at home, according to opinion polls. This picture taken Jan. 12 shows a gay couple, who wish to remain anonymous, who fled deadly persecution in their home country due to their sexual-orientation, during an interview in Nairobi, Kenya. (Tony Karumba - AFP/Getty Images) Ugandan parliamentarian David Bahati, who introduced the bill, has said homosexuality threatens family values and poses "dangers to our children." And the AP reports other lawmakers have also "spoken passionately about the need for such a law," and that none have come forward to condemn it. Pentecostal clerics in Uganda, too, support the bill, as they believe young men are increasingly at risk of become gay because of visits by gays from the U.S. and Europe. Solomon Male, a Pentecostal cleric who accused a pastor of sodomy, told the AP: "It is a big problem - homosexuals are in our schools, in our churches, everywhere, and we don't even know where to start." Contrast this with the comments of the Rev. Susan Russell of All Saints Pasadena Church in California, who predicted Monday that Prop 8 would be overturned: Tomorrow's ruling will be another step toward putting California back on the right side of marriage equality history and undoing the shameful act of allowing a bare majority of voters to write discrimination into our constitution. The 2-1 decision Tuesday, made by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, found that Prop 8 violated the U.S. Constitution. The ruling is likely to be limited to California, but the U.S. Supreme Court will also rule on gay marriage as early as next year.