Uganda will officially pass the ‘Kill The Gays’ bill at the end of this year despite international criticism.
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said the anti-gay bill will become law by December since most Ugandans ‘are demanding it’.
Referring to the law as a ‘Christmas gift’ to the population, she spoke of ‘the serious threat’ posed by homosexuals.
The law will broaden the criminalization of same-sex relationships by dividing homosexuality into two categories; aggravated homosexuality and the offense of homosexuality.
‘Aggravated homosexuality’ is defined as gay acts committed by parents or authority figures, HIV-positive people, pedophiles and repeat offenders. If convicted, they will face the death penalty.
The ‘offense of homosexuality’ includes same-sex sexual acts or being in a gay relationship, and will be prosecuted by life imprisonment.
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Still - as long as we're content with being drip-fed a steady diet of pictures of Z-listers' tits, footballers' bedroom indiscretions and shiny new phones that are a quarter of an inch larger than the identical previous model, I guess the potential genocide of thousands of people doesn't really matter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/nov/16/uk-suspends-aid-uganda-misuse
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/5-white-house-petition-end-foreign-aid-to-uganda-if-kill-the-gays-bill-passes/politics/2012/11/17/53996
I wouldn't complain about eradicating the paedophiles, they should not have a place in any society.
Complete horseshit to base any government decision on a religious text.
What's your point again?
Did you all miss that?
Is Christmas not a religious event?
I just wanted to point out that you pointing out 'it's in the bible' (whether you agree with it or not) is moot. There's so much depraved, infantile, puerile nonsense in the bible (and every other religious tome ever published) that you may as well say you saw it written down on the pavement outside a boozer last night - because that would be just as legitimate.
Gonna go into work tomorrow with a case of spitfire and say i have man flu
Cant believe some of you dont think its based on a true story
This is causing a huge problem for the Church of England as Africa is the main 'growth centre' for the Anglican church but the Africans are horrified by the liberal attitude towards homosexuality espoused by the UK-based church hierarchy whilst the Anglican establishment finds the gay-bashing by the Africans to be totally unaceptable.
The poor old Archbishop of Canterbury somehow has to find a way to placate the Africans without completely alienating his local, far more liberal flock.
Good luck with that one.
© Richard Dawkins
"And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank".
wasnt it Marx that said "religion is the opiate(sic) of the masses" ? only thing that twonk got right.