This video from the USA says about itself:
Yup, She’s DEFENDING Uganda’s Anti-Gay Laws!
23 February 2014
“The right-wing women’s group Concerned Women for America (CWFA) expressed outrage on Sunday that President Barack Obama condemned a Ugandan anti-LGBT bill that would punish homosexual behavior with lifetime imprisonment.
According to the Joe My God blog, CWFA spokesperson Janice Shaw Crouse said that the president’s “arrogance is breathtaking” for saying that [the] Ugandan government should stop imprisoning and torturing men it suspects of being gay.
On Sunday, Obama released an official White House statement condemning Uganda’s proposed law outlawing same sex marriages and imposing lifetime prison sentences for repeated homosexual acts.”
Read more here.
From daily The Guardian in Britain:
Ugandan men to go on trial on homosexuality charges
Kim Mukisa and Jackson Mukasa face life imprisonment if found guilty in first such case since introduction of new anti-gay law
Barbara Among in Kampala
Thursday 17 April 2014 16.37 BST
Two Ugandan men will go on trial next month accused of homosexuality, the first people to be charged since a controversial new anti-gay law was passed.
Prosecutors said on Wednesday that they had sufficient evidence against Kim Mukisa and Jackson Mukasa, who denied the charges when they first appeared in court earlier this year. They have been held in Luziro prison in Kampala since December.
Mukisa, 24, a businessman, was charged with “having sexual knowledge of a person against the order of nature” and Mukasa, 19, with permitting a person to have sexual knowledge of him against the order of nature.
They are the first Ugandans to face trial on homosexuality charges, with an earlier case collapsing before it reached court and the majority of those arrested paying stiff fines to avoid prison.
Uganda‘s president Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-gay law in February. It punishes first-time offenders with 14 years in jail and allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality”.
Since the law was passed several donors have cut aid to Uganda, while others have diverted development support to projects that promote human rights.
Mukisa and Mukasa, however, have been charged under the 1950 Penal Code Act, which also prescribes life imprisonment if a person is found guilty of homosexual acts.
They are expected to defend themselves during the trial, which is scheduled to start on 7 May.
Britain: KFC ‘sorry’ after lesbian couple are kicked out of Bath restaurant for ‘heavy petting’: here.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says the Anglican Church cannot support same-sex marriage: here.
USA: Mayor who fired lesbian police chief caught on tape in homophobic tirade: here.
Discrimination of any of any kind is wrong. We all have the same right to life after all.
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Reblogged this on Treebeardgarden's Blog and commented:
So wrong as is any discrimination!
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True. Thanks for reblogging!
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I wonder how concerned the Concerned Women for America would be if it were their son or daughter on trial with the possibility of a life sentence. Why should love for another person result in a sentence that you’d get for murder.?
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Sometmes, even having a lesbian sister does not prevent someone from being bigoted. Like in the Cheney family in the USA:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/within-cheney-family-a-dispute-over-gay-marriage/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
Yes, that what the “anti-gay” law states!!! Life in prison …. and the managed to take the death penalty out of the options!! Yeah … big deal! The only crime is being gay ….
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In this case, as the second last sentence of the article says, these two people are not even accused under the new anti-gay law; but under the old 1950 anti-gay law. Enacted when Uganda still was a British colony, and with a life sentence as well.
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OMG!! This is so unbelievable …. what is the world coming to???
SMH … this makes me so sad.
I have a very dear, blogger friend who is trying so much to help …. her resources/connections can’t even dent the need over there!!!
Hugs!!! 🙂
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Sometimes, the effects of good actions do not show in the short term; but they may yet do so in the long term.
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Stunningly tragic.
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