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Uganda: Even Anti-Gay Churches Think Proposed Law Goes Too Far

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

The country’s Anglicans yesterday added their voice against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Like the Catholics before them, the Church of Uganda officially rejected the Bill. They proposed that instead of the death penalty for gays who seduce boys – as the Bill put forward by Ndorwa West David Bahati demands – the law should be changed to ensure that vulnerable boys are properly protected.

Archbishop Luke Orombi, in his first public comments on the controversial Bill, however said they do not recognise homosexuality as “a human right”. “The Church of Uganda believes that homosexual practice is incompatible with the Scripture,” the prelate said in a statement issued yesterday, citing a resolution of the 1998 Lambeth Conference in Britain.

He added: “At the same time, the Church of Uganda is committed at all levels to offer counseling, healing and prayer for people with homosexual disorientation, especially in our schools and other institutions of learning.”

Full Story from the Daily Monitor
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Uganda: Obama Issues Condemnation of Anti Gay Bill

Friday, February 5th, 2010

U.S President Barack Obama has criticized the controversial anti-gay law which has been proposed to Uganda’s legislature. Speaking at a national prayer breakfast in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Obama described the proposed law as “odious,” according to a text posted to the White House website.

“We may disagree about gay marriage,” he said, “but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are.”

A bill before the Ugandan parliament proposes that penalties for homosexuality should be increased, raising the sentence for “same gender sexual activity” to life imprisonment.

Full Story from AllAfrica.com
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Uganda: Citizens Speak Out Against Anti Gay Bill

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

A bill before the Ugandan Parliament that would increase the penalties for having gay sex enjoys wide public support in the African nation, but a few brave Ugandans are speaking out against the proposal. Bob Kabaziguruka from Kampala, the nation’s largest city and its seat of government, is one of those people.

In a letter published last week by the Kampala-based Observer, Kabaziguruka, who is not gay, urged lawmakers to reject the bill that would outlaw gay sex and includes a death provision for repeat offenders and people who are HIV-positive.

“Personally, I believe Parliament is better off concentrating on issues such as the sorry state of our hospitals and other decaying institutions in the country rather than focusing on homosexuality and spreading homophobia,” he wrote.

Full Story from On Top Magazine: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=5114&MediaType=1&Category=24

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Uganda: "The Family" Involved in Effort to Criminalize Gays, Push Death Penalty for Homosexual Behavior

Friday, November 27th, 2009

The C Street home housing the Christian power broker group The Family, where Nevada Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford sought refuge and advice — is also notable for its involvement in another realm of anti-gay legislation: Uganda’s bill criminalizing homosexuality.

We already noted the religious right-wing’s support of making Uganda a home base for homophobia, but now comes word that America’s own Christian politicos are backing President Yoweri Museveni’s campaign to make gay sex punishable by death.

As Jeff Sharlot, author of the expose The Family, tells it, the bill’s biggest supporter is a member of The Family. David Bahati, the lawmaker pushing for aggravated homosexuality crimes, “appears to be a core member of The Family. He works, he organizes their Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast and oversees a African sort of student leadership program designed to create future leaders for Africa, into which The Family has poured millions of dollars working through a very convoluted chain of linkages passing the money over to Uganda.”

Full Story from Queerty: http://www.queerty.com/shock-john-ensign-mark-sanfords-religious-family-is-backing-ugandas-gay-hate-20091127/

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Proposed Ugandan Law Would Give Lifetime Sentence for Touching Someone With Gay Intent

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The nation of Uganda appears ready to relive the Idi Amin era of brutality. Jim Burroway has the details on this astonishingly vile piece of legislation under consideration, the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009:

The proposed bill would:

* Reaffirm the lifetime sentence currently provided upon conviction of homosexuality, and extends the definition from sexual activity to merely “touch[ing] another person with the intention of committing the act of homosexuality.”

* Create a new category of “aggravated homosexuality” which provides for the death penalty for “repeat offenders” and for cases where the individual is HIV-positive.

Full Story from ScienceBlogs: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/10/uganda_considers_barbaric_anti.php

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