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Death Penalty Still in Antigay Uganda Bill


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The death penalty has not and will not be dropped from the proposed antigay Uganda bill despite a report to the contrary last week by Bloomberg News, The Guardian is reporting.

The Guardian spoke with the “kill the gays” bill’s main sponsor, David Bahati. Reads the article: “Bahati has just presented his anti-homosexuality bill 2009 to Uganda's parliament. The bill, which will be debated within a fortnight and is expected to become law by February, will allow homosexuality to be punishable by death. ... He denied reports that international pressure might result in parts of the bill being toned down. 'We are not going to yield to any international pressure — we cannot allow people to play with the future of our children and put aid into the game. We are not in the trade of values. We need mutual respect.'"

Read the full article here.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Davya
    Date posted: 12/15/2009 1:41:08 AM
    Hometown: Wynnewood, PA

    Comment:

    The future of your children will be stricken with ravaged violence, poverty, and rape- like all the other religio-centric countries of Africa that became radicalized promulgators of testosterone-driven incentives. My only hope is that we will still care enough to help those in need in your future shithole of a country, as we, unlike you, hide our machismo for diplomatic purposes- not letting it divert the crucial conditions of our country and focus on issues of propagandist importance.

  • Name: Brad Bailey
    Date posted: 12/15/2009 12:04:07 AM
    Hometown: Fayetteville, AR

    Comment:

    Oh great! I just retracted my letter to the local paper about the Ugandan legislation because I thought the death sentence had been dropped from the bill.

  • Name: newz4i
    Date posted: 12/14/2009 3:25:27 PM
    Hometown: Phoenix

    Comment:

    Better yet: petition YOUR congregation to allow a hanging of a gay Ugandan in effigy when the first gay Ugandan is hung in Uganda, then two, three, four, five ... in full view from a public street.

  • Name: Jay
    Date posted: 12/14/2009 2:57:14 PM
    Hometown: Santa Monica

    Comment:

    Funny. I just don't respect murderers. If the US has any cojones, we will follow the example of Sweden and cut off aid to this uncivilized country. Maybe Rick Warren and Tom Coburn and the other members of the C-Street Family will make up the difference out of their own pocket. Oh, I forgot, the whole point of "faith-based initiatives" is for religious lunatics to get their hands on taxpayer money.

  • Name: newz4i
    Date posted: 12/14/2009 2:53:07 PM
    Hometown: Phoenix

    Comment:

    First gay Unganda hung hopefully will be hung in effigy in front of Saddleback Church.

  • Name: Caseyvt
    Date posted: 12/14/2009 2:39:01 PM
    Hometown: S. Royalton

    Comment:

    Craven loser, did you see the black senators fighting for our rights in the NY State House? Have you seen how the NAACP has pushed for passage of civil marriage for LGBT couples? I don't know if Julian Bond does anything else these days except argue that gay rights are civil rights and human rights. Maybe if you actually involved yourself in fighting for our rights, rather than sitting on the sidelines sniping, you'd be aware of these things. I'm as white as a person can be, and I'm furious about what's happening, but all the Mormons I know of in California's Prop. 8 disaster are white, and I was working in Maine and can assure you that that vote against us was nearly 100% white. AND, the gays they're going to be killing in Uganda are black. Idiot. Black people, I'm sorry, and let it go. As I'm sure you've seen, hatred curdles some people until they are a liability to themselves.

  • Name: dieter
    Date posted: 12/14/2009 2:14:41 PM
    Hometown: sacramento

    Comment:

    well an eye for an eye...blacks in US beware.



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