- RW Johnson: The battle over homophobia in Africa
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The arrest of a young Malawian male couple who had celebrated a gay marriage — under the country’s draconian anti-gay laws they face a 14-year sentence with hard labour — together with the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan parliament that increases the penalty for homosexuality from the present seven years in jail to death by hanging, have triggered a major row over differing Western and African attitudes to gay groups. Both sides in this debate accuse the other of being driven or encouraged by external sources: Gay rights campaigners angrily accuse conservative American evangelists of encouraging homophobia, while the anti-gay side insists that homosexuality is only surfacing openly in Africa because of Western encouragement. Indeed, some argue that the current African rows over homosexuality are actually just a skirmish by proxies in the American cultural wars, with both evangelicals and gay rights groups in the U.S. pouring in money and support to each side.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Will Gay Activists Be Rusjhing To By Airline Tickets To Uganda?
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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