GayUganda reports on another hate campaign supported from the US, this one in Kenya. Terrifying websites from the U.S. call for death to gays and lesbians. They provide posters with photos and addresses of people to target.
The government’s venom is chilling: “Homosexuals can forget about human rights,” James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently. What makes this even worse is that three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” gays and lesbians have been widely discredited in the United States, helped feed this hatred.
“Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a betrayal of Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves,” reads the statement released Monday (Dec. 7) and signed by dozens of leaders.
“I go to this celebration of the signing of the Matthew Shepard/James Byrd, Jr. Act remembering Matthew and all those hurt by hate. I am hopeful this legislation will move us as a country to a place of reconciliation, peace and love toward one another.” ~Bruce Caldwell, Bishop of Wyoming
A bill has been introduced to the Uganda parliament that would, among other things, provide a three year prison term for anyone who fails to report the names of those they know to be LGBT (and those they know who are heterosexual who support human rights for LGBT people) to authorities.
You know that society is moving toward the acceptance of gay relationships when Joint Force Quarterly , a prestigious journal published by the National Defense University Press for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gives the top prize in its 2009 essay contest to a systematic dissection of Don’t Ask. Don’t tell.
John Hodgman’s “Welcoming Remarks” declares the urgent need for human sensibility, contact, and compassion, and it calls gently upon artists to make sense of the world’s suffering – if not now, then perhaps in time.
In 1976, the Sabune family lost their idealistic brother to the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin in Uganda. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports how the family