Don't crimalise gay people - Church Society

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD
• DON’T CRIMALISE GAY PEOPLE
• CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed? In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe.

UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY

Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts.

And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy. Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.

For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". Although bat about sodomy laws durg the latter half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuri foced almost entirely on their crimalizatn of homosexual nduct, neteenth-century laws broadly nsted sodomy as “crim agast nature, mted wh mankd or wh beast” [3]. Durg the 1950s, McCarthyism rulted state- and natnwi wch hunts of male “homosexuals” which the acts of oral and anal sex between nsentg adult men were nflated wh child moltatn [11].

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

The appeals urt found that the Geia sodomy statute vlated Hardwick’s fundamental rights bee his homosexual activy was a “private and timate associatn that is beyond the reach of state regulatn by reason of the Nth Amendment and the Due Procs Clse of the Fourteenth Amendment” [20]. Wrg for the majory, Jtice Whe amed the issue as “whether the Feral Constutn nfers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage sodomy and hence validat the laws of many stat that still make such nduct illegal and have done so for a very long time” [21]. ” Even though the Geia sodomy law crimalized the behavr of both heterosexuals and homosexuals, the Court’s majory fixated on the fact that the se before them volved a gay man.

Yet, this se, the urt announced that “ is obv to that neher of the formali would extend a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage acts of nsensual sodomy” [24]. The Court ground s reasong the fact that stat had had sodomy laws place sce the natn’s foundg, and, therefore, a right to homosexual sodomy uld not be “eply rooted” tradn or history [25]. Fally, Hardwick asserted that the law mt have a ratnal basis for s existence and that there is none for the Geia statute bis the public’s view that homosexualy is immoral and unacceptable.

Media ptn, Watch: Cheers and applse as Uganda pass anti-gay billPeople who intify as gay Uganda risk life prison after parliament passed a new bill to crack down on homosexual activi.

WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD

Homosexual acts are already illegal Uganda but this bill troduc many new crimal well as makg merely intifyg as gay illegal for the first time, iends, fay and members of the muny would have a duty to report dividuals same-sex relatnships to the was passed wh wispread support Uganda's parliament on Tuday eveng.

The bill's backers say they are tryg to protect children but Ms Byagaba said: "Whether you're heterosexual or homosexual, the ernment and parliament should troduce laws, or at least implement existg laws that protect all children - boys, girls om filement. The fal versn has yet to be officially published but elements discsed parliament clu: A person who is nvicted of groomg or traffickg children for purpos of engagg them homosexual activi fac life prisonIndividuals or stutns which support or fund LGBT rights' activi or anisatns, or publish, broadst and distribute pro-gay media material and lerature, also face prosecutn and imprisonmentMedia groups, journalists and publishers face prosecutn and imprisonment for publishg, broadstg, distributn of any ntent that advot for gay rights or "promot homosexualy"Death penalty for what is scribed as "aggravated homosexualy", that is sexual abe of a child, a person wh disabily or vulnerable people, or s where a victim of homosexual asslt is fected wh a life-long illnsProperty owners also face risk of beg jailed if their premis are ed as a "brothel" for homosexual acts or any other sexual mori rights' activiA small group of Ugandan MPs on a mtee sctisg the bill disagreed wh s premise.

DON’T CRIMALISE GAY PEOPLE

They argue the offenc seeks to crimalise are already vered the untry's Penal Co 2014, Uganda's nstutnal urt nullified another act which had toughened laws agast the LGBT clud makg illegal to promote and fund LGBT groups and activi, as well as reeratg that homosexual acts should be punished by life imprisonment, and was wily nmned by Wtern urt led that the legislatn be revoked bee had been passed by parliament whout the required quom. Image source, Getty ImagThe High Court Barbados has stck out their laws that crimalised gay prev laws om 1992, while rarely voked, mand a life sentence for those found guilty of havg nsensual same-sex High Court Barbados has stck out their laws that crimalised gay prev laws, while rarely voked, mand a life sentence for those found guilty of havg nsensual same-sex relatns.

CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.

"In short, [the lg means] we n no longer prosecute persons unr the two sectns, " he said, addg that charg for offenc relatg to nsensual gay sex uld no longer be mataed. "This "historic" lg was scribed as "a signifint step towards protectg the human rights and digny of LBGT people Barbados, " acrdg to Luisa Cabal, of the jot Uned Natns programme on HIV/ add that "will also strengthen the untry's HIV rponse by helpg to rce stigma and discrimatn faced by LGBT people and creasg the uptake of HIV ttg, treatment and preventn servic" least 66 untri the world still crimalise gay sex, acrdg to Human Rights Watch.

Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17 marks the day the World Health Organisatn (WHO) classified “homosexualy” as a mental disorr. As the world reach 30 years sce beg gay was no longer an ternatnally signated disease, a map by an ternatnal LGBT anizatn shows remas illegal to be gay 70 untri. The map by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn shows that only 65% of those livg UN untri around the world n now be, legally, nsensual same-sex relatnships.

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) report on state-sponsored homophobia, released last month, six Uned Natns member stat imposed the ath penalty on nsensual same-sex sexual acts.