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Outright puffery makes it difficult to see into the real person responsible for Uganda’s proposed kill-the-gays legislation.
Outright puffery makes it difficult to see into the real person responsible for Uganda’s proposed kill-the-gays legislation.
We reported on the second all African Bishop’s Conference back in January. Now the details of the conference have been published by a Ugandan newspaper.
…let us not breed unnecessary suspicion against one another but instead seek for the common goal of a peaceful and just society. Remember a peaceful society is the right of every one regardless of their age, race, gender or religious inclination. ++Orombi
Police identified the head as that of Pasikali Kashusbe, one of the workers on Kigggundu’s farm and a member of Integrity Uganda. Pasikali and his partner Abbey are youth workers with Integrity Uganda charged with the responsibility of mobilising young LGBT people in activities which build community capacity to face up to the challenge of homophobia, especially in the area of attitude change and care through drama and sports activities.
…parliament is set to discreetly pass amendments that would prevent all residents and local and international non-profit organizations from “promoting,” advocating, or associating any of their activities with homosexuality.
Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, has called for his country to pull out of the United Nations because the organization opposes bias against gays and lesbians. Can we expect Rowan Williams to express displeasure as quickly as he condemned the election of a lesbian bishop in the Episcopal Church? No, because that deadline has already passed.
The President of Malawi has intervened, pardoned and ordered the immediate release of the gay couple that were recently sentenced to 14 years of hard labor for holding a marriage commitment service in December.
There is some reason to believe that that the Ugandan government has quietly moved to kill the notorious “anti-gay” legislation that we’ve covered here on the Lead through the past year.
Political tension has so deeply penetrated life in this southern African country that when Tendai Mahachi kneels down to receive communion he is making a