Yesterday South African anti-apartheid activist and former archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote an op-ed urging members of the Uganda parliament to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. While the new legislation no longerseeks to punish “offenders” with the death penalty, jail terms up to life in prison will await those found guilty of engaging in queer sex or “promot[ing] gay culture.”

Tutu’s piece, published in the Daily Monitor, utilizes a religious argument against discrimination and compares contemporary homophobia to colonial racism. While he places a conservative emphasis on tolerance—a far cry from true acceptance or celebration of queer life—Tutu still presents a pretty radical idea of interdependency. He writes:

One thing that Ugandan legislators should know is that God does not discriminate ...