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• UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’
• UGANDA JT MA HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS PLAYED A ROLEPRINT JOE BIN—AND EVEN TED CZ—HAS NMNED THE UGANDAN LAW. THE LEGISLATN AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYG OM AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS, SOME OF WHICH PREVLY SUPPORTED SUCH HARSH ANTI-LGBTQ MEASUR.BY CALEB ERMAMAY 30, 2023ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER MORE THAN A OF ANTI-LGBTQ LOBBYG OM AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS, UGANDA HAS FALLY ENACTED WHAT’S AMONG THE HARSHT ANTIGAY LAWS THE WORLD. ON MONDAY, YOWERI MEVENI, THE PRINT OF THE EAST AIN NATN, SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT 2023, A BILL THAT MAK HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY”—A VAGUE PHRASE THAT APPLI TO BOTH PREDATORS AND THOSE WHO E “MISREPRENTATN” OR “UNDUE FLUENCE” TO ENGAGE GAY SEX—PUNISHABLE BY ATH. EVEN ATTEMPTG “TO M THE OFFENSE OF HOMOSEXUALY” ULD LEAD TO A SEVEN-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MOREOVER, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF “PROMOTG” HOMOSEXUALY THE UNTRY ULD FACE UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON, WHILE SO-LLED “SERIAL OFFENRS” AND THOSE WHO TRANSM HIV/AIDS THROUGH GAY SEX ULD BE SUBJECT TO PAL PUNISHMENT.THE LAW HAS FACED WISPREAD NMNATN ABROAD. IN A MONDAY STATEMENT, JOE BIN NMNED AS “A TRAGIC VLATN” OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THE WHE HOE WAS “NSIRG ADDNAL STEPS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF SANCTNS AND RTRICTN OF ENTRY TO THE UNED STAT AGAST ANYONE VOLVED SER HUMAN RIGHTS AB OR RPTN.” (FOR HIS PART, MEVENI PREVLY PRAISED UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT MEMBERS FOR FYG “IMPERIALIST” PRSURE MPAIGNS AGAST THE LAW, WHICH IS ALSO BEG CHALLENGED URT BY -UNTRY ACTIVISTS.)ANTIGAY SENTIMENT UGANDA HAS CLIMBED RECENT YEARS DUE NO SMALL PART TO AMERIN EVANGELILS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN $20 LN FIGHTG LGBTQ RIGHTS THE UNTRY BETWEEN 2007–2020, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. STT LIVELY, AN AMERIN PASTOR, SPEARHEAD THIS EFFORT THE EARLY 2000S, PARTICIPATG A SERI OF POPULAR ANTIGAY LECTUR UGANDA AND SCRIBG HOMOSEXUALY AS A “DISEASE” PROPAGATED BY THE WT. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT PROPOSED IAL LEGISLATN, KNOWN AS THE “KILL THE GAYS” BILL, THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY A NUMBER OF AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND EVENTUALLY SIGNED TO LAW. WHILE THAT MEASURE ULTIMATELY BUCKLED UNR URT SCTY, S DRANIAN VISN HAS NOW BEEN REVIVED AND ETCHED TO LAW BY MEVENI’S PEN.IN A STRANGE TWIST, ONE OF THE LEADG EVANGELIL POLICIANS THE US HAS JOED THE WHE HOE, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AND A RPORATE ALN NMNG THE LAW. “THIS UGANDA LAW IS HORRIFIC & WRONG,” TWEETED SENATOR TED CZ, A TEXAS REPUBLIN. “ANY LAW CRIMALIZG HOMOSEXUALY OR IMPOSG THE ATH PENALTY FOR ‘AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY’ IS GROTQUE & AN ABOMATN. ALL CIVILIZED NATNS SHOULD JO TOGETHER NMNG THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. #LGBTQ.” IN HIS OWN UNTRY, CZ HAS NSISTENTLY ADVOTED AGAST THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF GAY AMERINS. AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HE LLED OBERGEFELL V. HODG, THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, “CLEARLY WRONG” AND AN ACT OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. (THOSE REMARKS WERE D PARED TO HIS IAL REACTN TO THE 2015 CISN, WHICH HE SCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE VERY FN OF TYRANNY” AND “AMONG THE DARKT HOURS OF OUR NATN.”)ANA AMONG, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER, RPOND TO CRICISMS OF THE LAW BY STATG THAT MEVENI HAD “ANSWERED THE CRI OF OUR PEOPLE.” IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT, AMONG URGED THE “DUTY BEARERS UNR THE LAW TO EXECUTE THE MANDATE BTOWED UPON THEM THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANCALEB ERMA
• UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
• UGANDA LAWMAKERS AMEND NTROVERSIAL ANTI-GAY LAW BUT ATH PENALTY FOR HIV POSIVE SEX REMAS
• UGANDA PASS STRICT ANTI-GAY BILL THAT IMPOS DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’

Canon John Awodi clar vehemently that “homosexualy is a s that mt be repented of, ” addg that is agast the “orr of God.

The them have bee a mon thread his sermons and terviews, pecially sce Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act was signed to law last month. The act outlaws gay marriage Uganda, punish same-sex acts wh life imprisonment, and lls for the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” – which clus sex wh a mor or otherwise vulnerable person, havg sex while HIV posive and ct. In recent weeks, disturbg vios have surfaced showg mountg hostily towards lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex dividuals Uganda sce the retroductn of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill.

UGANDA JT MA HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS PLAYED A ROLEPRINT JOE BIN—AND EVEN TED CZ—HAS NMNED THE UGANDAN LAW. THE LEGISLATN AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYG OM AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS, SOME OF WHICH PREVLY SUPPORTED SUCH HARSH ANTI-LGBTQ MEASUR.BY CALEB ERMAMAY 30, 2023ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER MORE THAN A OF ANTI-LGBTQ LOBBYG OM AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS, UGANDA HAS FALLY ENACTED WHAT’S AMONG THE HARSHT ANTIGAY LAWS THE WORLD. ON MONDAY, YOWERI MEVENI, THE PRINT OF THE EAST AIN NATN, SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT 2023, A BILL THAT MAK HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY”—A VAGUE PHRASE THAT APPLI TO BOTH PREDATORS AND THOSE WHO E “MISREPRENTATN” OR “UNDUE FLUENCE” TO ENGAGE GAY SEX—PUNISHABLE BY ATH. EVEN ATTEMPTG “TO M THE OFFENSE OF HOMOSEXUALY” ULD LEAD TO A SEVEN-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MOREOVER, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF “PROMOTG” HOMOSEXUALY THE UNTRY ULD FACE UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON, WHILE SO-LLED “SERIAL OFFENRS” AND THOSE WHO TRANSM HIV/AIDS THROUGH GAY SEX ULD BE SUBJECT TO PAL PUNISHMENT.THE LAW HAS FACED WISPREAD NMNATN ABROAD. IN A MONDAY STATEMENT, JOE BIN NMNED AS “A TRAGIC VLATN” OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THE WHE HOE WAS “NSIRG ADDNAL STEPS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF SANCTNS AND RTRICTN OF ENTRY TO THE UNED STAT AGAST ANYONE VOLVED SER HUMAN RIGHTS AB OR RPTN.” (FOR HIS PART, MEVENI PREVLY PRAISED UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT MEMBERS FOR FYG “IMPERIALIST” PRSURE MPAIGNS AGAST THE LAW, WHICH IS ALSO BEG CHALLENGED URT BY -UNTRY ACTIVISTS.)ANTIGAY SENTIMENT UGANDA HAS CLIMBED RECENT YEARS DUE NO SMALL PART TO AMERIN EVANGELILS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN $20 LN FIGHTG LGBTQ RIGHTS THE UNTRY BETWEEN 2007–2020, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. STT LIVELY, AN AMERIN PASTOR, SPEARHEAD THIS EFFORT THE EARLY 2000S, PARTICIPATG A SERI OF POPULAR ANTIGAY LECTUR UGANDA AND SCRIBG HOMOSEXUALY AS A “DISEASE” PROPAGATED BY THE WT. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT PROPOSED IAL LEGISLATN, KNOWN AS THE “KILL THE GAYS” BILL, THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY A NUMBER OF AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND EVENTUALLY SIGNED TO LAW. WHILE THAT MEASURE ULTIMATELY BUCKLED UNR URT SCTY, S DRANIAN VISN HAS NOW BEEN REVIVED AND ETCHED TO LAW BY MEVENI’S PEN.IN A STRANGE TWIST, ONE OF THE LEADG EVANGELIL POLICIANS THE US HAS JOED THE WHE HOE, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AND A RPORATE ALN NMNG THE LAW. “THIS UGANDA LAW IS HORRIFIC & WRONG,” TWEETED SENATOR TED CZ, A TEXAS REPUBLIN. “ANY LAW CRIMALIZG HOMOSEXUALY OR IMPOSG THE ATH PENALTY FOR ‘AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY’ IS GROTQUE & AN ABOMATN. ALL CIVILIZED NATNS SHOULD JO TOGETHER NMNG THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. #LGBTQ.” IN HIS OWN UNTRY, CZ HAS NSISTENTLY ADVOTED AGAST THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF GAY AMERINS. AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HE LLED OBERGEFELL V. HODG, THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, “CLEARLY WRONG” AND AN ACT OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. (THOSE REMARKS WERE D PARED TO HIS IAL REACTN TO THE 2015 CISN, WHICH HE SCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE VERY FN OF TYRANNY” AND “AMONG THE DARKT HOURS OF OUR NATN.”)ANA AMONG, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER, RPOND TO CRICISMS OF THE LAW BY STATG THAT MEVENI HAD “ANSWERED THE CRI OF OUR PEOPLE.” IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT, AMONG URGED THE “DUTY BEARERS UNR THE LAW TO EXECUTE THE MANDATE BTOWED UPON THEM THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANCALEB ERMA

At least 300 human rights vlatns agast spected homosexuals have been reported Uganda arisg om the Anti-Homosexualy Act of 2023, the SRT told CNN. Nash Wash Raphael, a 30-year-old transgenr man, says he was attacked on the night Meveni signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act. The new law stat that “a person who promot homosexualy ms an offense and is liable, on nvictn, to imprisonment for a perd not exceedg twenty years.

UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT

On Meveni’s remendatn, the law prcrib rehabilatn for nvicted homosexuals to change their sexual orientatn, even though scientists say so-lled nversn therapy is harmful and effective. Ugandan lawmakers, who overwhelmgly supported the bill, railed agast the supposed “recment” of young people to homosexualy, pedophilia and groomg. Human rights advot say that the offense of “promotn” of homosexualy uld be weaponized agast activists, journalists, or any ordary cizen.

It is the st of ntug to operate a nservative Ugandan society where homophobic msagg emanat everywhere om church and mosqu to the hight polil offic, Amek said. The Church of Uganda openly fied the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, and supported the Anti-Homosexualy Act, accg the global head of the Anglin Church of misterpretg the Bible.

UGANDA LAWMAKERS AMEND NTROVERSIAL ANTI-GAY LAW BUT ATH PENALTY FOR HIV POSIVE SEX REMAS

The Church of Uganda says will separate om the Church of England over their differenc on the issue of homosexualy. The Anti-Homosexualy Act of 2023 is a revival of a prev versn nicknamed the “Kill the Gays” Bill that Uganda’s parliament passed 2014 but which was blocked urt on a technily.

After more than a of anti-LGBTQ lobbyg om Amerin evangelil groups, Uganda has fally enacted what’s among the harsht antigay laws the world. On Monday, Yoweri Meveni, the print of the East Ain natn, signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act 2023, a bill that mak homosexualy punishable by life imprisonment and “aggravated homosexualy”—a vague phrase that appli to both predators and those who e “misreprentatn” or “undue fluence” to engage gay sex—punishable by ath. Moreover, anyone found guilty of “promotg” homosexualy the untry uld face up to 20 years prison, while so-lled “serial offenrs” and those who transm HIV/AIDS through gay sex uld be subject to pal law has faced wispread nmnatn abroad.

UGANDA PASS STRICT ANTI-GAY BILL THAT IMPOS DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME

)Antigay sentiment Uganda has climbed recent years due no small part to Amerin evangelils, who spent more than $20 ln fightg LGBTQ rights the untry between 2007–2020, acrdg to The Washgton Post. Stt Lively, an Amerin pastor, spearhead this effort the early 2000s, participatg a seri of popular antigay lectur Uganda and scribg homosexualy as a “disease” propagated by the Wt.

Several years later, Uganda’s parliament proposed ial legislatn, known as the “Kill the Gays” bill, that was supported by a number of Amerin Christian groups and eventually signed to law. “Any law crimalizg homosexualy or imposg the ath penalty for ‘aggravated homosexualy’ is grotque & an abomatn. ” In a separate statement, Among urged the “duty bearers unr the law to execute the mandate btowed upon them the Anti-Homosexualy Act.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe legislatn is among the most rtrictive of s kd the world and was nmned by Wtern lears and the Uned Natns human rights Ugandan Parliament May durg the passage of an anti-gay bill. Lawmakers passed an earlier versn Lubowa/RtersThe print of Uganda signed a punive anti-gay bill on Monday that clus the ath penalty, enshrg to law an tensifyg crackdown agast L. People the nservative East Ain natn and dismissg wispread lls not to impose one of the world’s most rtrictive anti-gay law lls for life imprisonment for anyone who engag gay sex.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

Anyone who tri to have same-sex relatns uld be liable for up to a law also cre the ath penalty for anyone nvicted of “aggravated homosexualy, ” a term fed as acts of same-sex relatns wh children or disabled people, those rried out unr threat or while someone is unnsc.

The offense of “attempted aggravated homosexualy” rri a sentence of up to 14 legislatn is a major blow to efforts by the Uned Natns, Wtern ernments, civil society and rights groups that had implored the print, Yoweri Meveni, not to sign .