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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyDecember 23rd, 2009
Per Reuters:
Uganda will soften its proposed anti-gay legislation, but the government denied on Wednesday that it was bowing to an outcry in the West over a controversial bill that could have seen homosexuals put to death.
Ethics and Integrity Minister Nsaba Buturo told Reuters that the revised law would now probably limit the maximum penalty for offenders to life in prison rather than execution.
“There have been a lot of discussions in government … regarding the proposed law, but we now think a life sentence could be better because it gives room for offenders to be rehabilitated,” he said in an interview.
“Killing them might not be helpful.”
Ya think?
But let us not consider this a victory. The bill continues to be egregious and draconian. And it is still the moral obligation of decent people to oppose it.
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Tom in Lazybrook
December 23rd, 2009
Any criminal penalties for being Gay is offensive. And we should make the Family, Senator Brownback, Rick Warren, and the others OWN this bill.
Remember, the argument should be..
“Senator Brownback can’t win an argument on Gay Rights, thats why he has no criticism and doesn’t support penalties for Uganda throwing all Gays in jail” or something along those lines.
The Uganda and Rwanda laws should also be brought up every time a Christian complains about persecution.
Seriously, many religious right groups in the USA supported (or at least support groups that did) the UN defeat of a resolution that said that Gay people should not be convicted of a crime simply because they are Gay. (Hint – I believe the “Family” vehicle fighting for criminalization of Gay behavior is called the World Council of Families or World Congress of Families). They supported the Syrian and Iranian position (as well as the Islamic Conference) on that one.
So the next time some religious right person tries to whine ‘persecution’ about some photographer in NM denying public accomodation or some church in NJ losing its tax breaks, I suggest we ask them about the UN votes and their support (if they are indeed linked – many of them are) of organizations that worked to defeat that UN resolution.
Lynn David
December 24th, 2009
Add the Catholic Church of Uganda to the mix against the Bahati Bill:
Lynn David
December 24th, 2009
Radio Sapientia in the link above is the Roman Catholic FM radio station in Uganda.
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