A Ugandan lobby group that opposes homosexuality is challenging a 2009 Bill that proposes the death penalty for gays.
The National Coalition Against Homosexuality and Sexual Abuse in Uganda (NCAHSA) says the "Bill is unrealistic and also diversionary."
NCAHSA's remarks follows reports that the MPs want debate on the Bill to be resurrected by Uganda's parliament.
Pastor Solomon Male, the NCAHSA leader said the proposed new law was unnecessary because there were enough instruments to deal with the issue.
"Such MPs do not know what to do," Male said. "That bill is ill conceived.
"It cannot deal with homosexuality challenges in the country." He said the Penal Code already imposes a 14 year jail term for people convicted of practicing homosexuality.
"The death penalty is useless.
"In Uganda the last time someone sentenced to death was killed was in 1999.
"Many of those sentenced to death for various offences are not killed," Male said.
He said although the existing laws were sufficient they could not be applied consistently because of corruption in the police force and the judiciary.
The Bill among other things makes it mandatory for Ugandans to report homosexuals to the police.
It has been roundly condemned by the international community.
The author of the Bill, MP David Bahati MP insisted that parliament must pass it into law.
"We have to protect our children against homosexuality," he said. "We also have to maintain our cultural values."
But Ugandan gay activist Kasha Jacqueline says the lives of many are in " danger".
"We are often harassed and abused by some people," says Jacqueline.
A gay student, Simon Kafulu also asserts that gay people live in "fear".
"We do not want people to know us. Some people can even kill us if they know that we are gay."
In January this year, David Kato, a Ugandan gay rights campaigner who sued a local newspaper (Rolling Stone) for publishing an article entitled "Hang Them" outing him and others as homosexuals, was beaten to death.
