{"id":186559,"date":"2013-12-20T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/20\/uganda-passes-kill-the-gays-lite\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T00:42:00","slug":"uganda-passes-kill-the-gays-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/20\/uganda-passes-kill-the-gays-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Passes &#8220;Kill the Gays Lite&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/ugandan-anti-gay-bill-includes-life-imprisonment-for-certain-acts\/2013\/12\/20\/ce2c6b88-6995-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html\">Life in prison for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ugandan lawmakers Friday passed an anti-gay bill that calls for life imprisonment for certain homosexual acts, drawing criticism from rights campaigners who called it the worst such legislation in the world.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When the bill was first introduced in 2009, it was widely condemned for including the death penalty, but that was removed from the revised version passed by parliament.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Instead it sets life imprisonment as the penalty for a homosexual act in which one of the partners is infected with HIV, for sex with minors and the disabled, and for repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults, according to the office of a spokeswoman for Uganda\u2019s parliament.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The bill also prescribes a seven-year jail term for a person who \u201cconducts a marriage ceremony\u201d for same-sex couples.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Lawmakers passed the bill unanimously, with no one voicing an objection.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Yoweri Museveni must sign the bill within 30 days for it to become law. Although in the past he spoke disparagingly of gays, in recent times Museveni has softened his position on the matter, saying he is only opposed to gays who appear to \u201cpromote\u201d themselves.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIn our society there were a few homosexuals,\u201d Museveni said in March. \u201cThere was no persecution, no killings and no marginalization of these people, but they were regarded as deviants.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The passage of the bill makes it \u201ca truly terrifying day for human rights in Uganda,\u201d said Frank Mugisha, a prominent Ugandan gay activist, who called the legislation \u201cthe worst anti-gay law in the world.\u201d He urged the country\u2019s president not to sign the bill into law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt will open a new era of fear and persecution,\u201d he said. \u201cIf this law is signed by President Museveni, I\u2019d be thrown in jail for life and in all likelihood killed.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Understand that this is largely <b>not<\/b> a home grown movement.&nbsp; As Rachel Maddow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/34783946\/ns\/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show\/t\/uganda-be-kidding-me\/\">so ably demonstrated<\/a>, (vid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zfSWkZ53_tI\">here<\/a>) much of the impetus has come from the shadowy American Christo-Fascist group known as &#8220;The Family,&#8221; has been aggressively lobbying for for anti-Gay legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in prison for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8220;: Ugandan lawmakers Friday passed an anti-gay bill that calls for life imprisonment for certain homosexual acts, drawing criticism from rights campaigners who called it the worst such legislation in the world.When the bill was first introduced in 2009, it was widely condemned for including the death penalty, but that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,969,1115,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-evil","category-genocide","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186559"}],"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=186559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}