Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken directly to Uganda President Museveni about the proposed death penalty for gays/HIV positive people now before the Ugandan Parliament. The Prime Minister expressed his strong concerns about the legislation. Brown was able to directly communicate with President Museveni at the Commonwealth Heads of Government. The British foreign office already had expressed opposition to the legislation. Brown might be the first head of state to directly express his opposition to the legislation.

PinkNews.co.uk is reporting that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued this statement,

"We are concerned by the introduction of a private member's bill on anti homosexuality in Uganda.

"Adoption of the bill could do serious damage to efforts to tackle HIV and its criminalisation of organisations that support homosexuality could, in theory, encompass most donor agencies and international NGOs.

"The UK, alongside our EU partners, has raised our concerns about the draft bill and LGBT rights more broadly with the government of Uganda, including with the prime minister and several other ministers, the Ugandan Human Rights Commission, and senior officials from the Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"We will continue to track the passage of the bill and to lobby against its introduction."

With the French Foreign Minister joining in with the British and the European Union in publicly opposing this legislation, it is time for President Obama to step to the plate before it is too late.