The Nobel Peace Prize winner compared the law – which could see gay people facing lifetime prison sentences – to Nazism and Apartheid, Pink News reports.
President Museveni is expected to publicly sign the bill at an event taking place at his official residence to prove that Uganda is independent in the face of “Western pressure”.
In a statement, Tutu said: “In South Africa, Apartheid police used to rush into bedrooms where whites were suspected of making love to blacks. It was demeaning to those whose ‘crime’ was to love each other, it was demeaning to the policemen and it was a blot on our entire society.”
He continued: “My plea to President Museveni is to use his country’s debate around the Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a catalyst to further strengthen the culture of human rights and justice in Uganda.”
Last year, the former Archbishop said that he would refuse to “worship a God who is homophobic”.
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