{"id":185852,"date":"2014-08-02T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/02\/fabulous-7\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T01:15:00","slug":"fabulous-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/02\/fabulous-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda constitutional court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/01\/uganda-anti-gay-law-null-and-void\">ruled their Kill the Gays (lite) bill unconstitutional<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gay rights campaigners in Uganda and around the world are celebrating a decision by the country&#8217;s constitutional court to strike down a widely condemned anti-gay law on a legal technicality.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Activists in the courtroom cheered after a panel of five judges ruled on Friday that the speaker of parliament acted illegally when she allowed a vote on the measure despite at least three objections that not enough MPs were in attendance.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The speaker was obliged to ensure that there was quorum,&#8221; the court said in its ruling. &#8220;We come to the conclusion that she acted illegally.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">While celebrating the ruling, activists warned that homosexuality remained a criminal offence in the east African country under colonial-era laws.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While much of the blame for this rests on the politicians of Uganda, who are, after all, human beings with their own capability of agency, but I really do think that we should be investigating members of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Family_%28Christian_political_organization%29\">The Family<\/a>&#8221; in the United States for conspiracy to commit genocide.&nbsp; (Click the link, the Family is a scary bunch of people)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice that Uganda cannot throw people convicted of &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; into jail for life, but it would be nicer still if they were to repeal the colonial-era laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda constitutional court has ruled their Kill the Gays (lite) bill unconstitutional: Gay rights campaigners in Uganda and around the world are celebrating a decision by the country&#8217;s constitutional court to strike down a widely condemned anti-gay law on a legal technicality.Activists in the courtroom cheered after a panel of five judges ruled on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,969,972,1020,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-evil","category-justice","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}