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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyFebruary 23rd, 2014
Moments ago, Uganda’s governmental spokesman Ofwono Opondo tweeted that President Yoweri Museveni will sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill at 11:00 a.m. Monday Morning at State House in Entebbe (3:00 a.m. E.S.T). The Tweet went out at about 6:50 a.m. Monday morning local time in Uganda, or 10:50 Sunday night E.S.T. He then quickly followed that with two more tweets taunting President Obama:
Obama has labeled the Ant-Homosexuality Bill “odious” and warned that signing the bill “would complicate (our) valued relationship.”
As for the Arizona bill which has not been signed into law, not one person would be thrown in jail for as much as an hour if Gov. Jan Brewer made the insane decision to sign it. Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill however will impose a lifetime sentence in prison for conviction of homoseuxality, lifetime imprisonment for entering into a same-sex marriage, seven years for conducting one, five to seven years for advocacy by or on behalf of LGBT people, five years for providing housing to LGBT people, and seven years for providing services to LGBT people.
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Lord_Byron
February 24th, 2014
If this does occur in the next half hour I do hope to hear in the next 24 hours a list of nations cutting off all aid to the country.
jpeckjr
February 24th, 2014
The Arizona and the Uganda laws are not comparable in substance or effect.
However, they a both rooted in religion-based anti-gay animus.
It is not illegal in the United States to discriminate against gay and lesbian people under federal law.
But there is no law in the US comparable to what is happening in Uganda or Nigeria.
Nick
February 24th, 2014
”..there is no law in the US comparable to what is happening in Uganda or Nigeria.” (yet!)
customartist
February 24th, 2014
Contact Whitehouse:
Cut all aid to Uganda NOW
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
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