Officials: Uganda’s leader to sign anti-gay bill
Repost from the Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials…
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Op-Ed “Demonizing Gays in Africa”
Repost from the New York Times, By THE EDITORIAL BOARD As acceptance of gays and lesbians has grown in the United States and Europe, intolerance and persecution has been rising…
Read moreEvangelicals Are Winning The Gay Marriage Fight — in Africa and Russia
Repost from National Journal Long before President Obama selected three gay athletes to lead the American delegation to the Sochi Olympics, long before President Vladimir Putin declared Russia…
Read moreRep. Eliot Engel Statement on Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
“To be clear, the passage of this legislation is a stain on the human rights record of Uganda, and appears to be part of a troubling trend of…
Read moreUganda Passes Odious Anti-LGBT Law
The Council for Global Equality joins our colleagues in Uganda and around the world in condemning the adoption today of a harsh, anti-gay law that sentences LGBT Ugandans…
Read moreCourt Allows Lawsuit Against U.S. Pastor for Helping with Uganda Anti-Gay Bill
Repost from the Washington Blade A federal district court in Massachusetts announced on Wednesday it will allow a case to proceed against evangelical Christian Scott Lively for unlawfully…
Read moreStrange bedfellows
Repost from The Economist American Christian zealots are fighting back against gay rights—abroad IT MIGHT seem only a nasty coincidence. As gay rights advance in the West—France and…
Read moreHuman Rights Activists meet with President Museveni of Uganda
A human rights delegation lead by Kerry Kennedy, President of The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, met with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on Monday. Kennedy expressed concerns…
Read moreOpEd by Bishop Desmond Tutu on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
As it appeared today in Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper To Ugandan MPs: God does not discriminate among our family Uganda’s Parliament is – unbelievably – on the verge…
Read moreU.S. envoy meets Ugandan leaders over anti-gay bill
Repost from The Washington Blade The top U.S. diplomat in Africa met over the weekend with leaders in Uganda to express concerns about an anti-gay bill pending before…
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