Sudan's cisn to lift the ath penalty and floggg as punishment for gay sex was hailed by LGBT+ activists on Thursday as a promisg sign after almost four s of Islamist le, wh lls for prison sentenc to be abolished as well.
Contents:
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS
- 'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- POPE, ANGLIN, PRBYTERIAN LEARS NOUNCE ANTI-GAY LAWS
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Pope Francis phed back agast the nmnatn of the gay muny and anti-gay laws after visg wh Ain lears on Sunday. * sudan gay laws *
WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. 5 (UPI) -- Pope Francis phed back agast the nmnatn of the gay muny and anti-gay laws after visg wh Ain lears on Sunday.
The Pope said is a s and jtice to treat people wh "homosexual tennci" poorly when terviewed durg his flight om South Sudan, the Catholic News Agency reports.
"People wh homosexual tennci are children of God.
POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS
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Crimalizg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. Punishment for vlatg anti-gay laws clu lashg and the ath penalty.
In all, the Pope spent six days Ai, but the subject of homosexualy was quickly dismissed by Ain ernment and relig lears. Stephen Ameyu Mart Mulla, archbishop of South Sudan's pal cy Juba, said addrsg the ill treatment of the gay muny the untry is not a prry, The New York Tim reports. He argued that he was not aware of anyone beg imprisoned for homosexualy and asserted that each untry should be allowed to addrs the subject as choos.
'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
AMMAN/LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Sudan’s cisn to lift the ath penalty and floggg as punishment for gay sex was hailed by LGBT+ activists on Thursday as a promisg sign after almost four s of Islamist le, wh lls for prison sentenc to be abolished as cricised the relaxatn of the law nservative Sudan, where a transnal ernment has promised to lead the untry to mocracy after the topplg last year of tocrat Omar al-Bashir, who had been power sce 1989. Sudan was one of six untri, cludg Iran, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria and Somalia, that imposed the ath penalty for gay sex, acrdg to the LGBT+ rights group Sudan’s old sodomy law, gay men faced 100 lash for the first offence, five years jail for the send and the ath penalty the third time around. The punishments have been rced to prison terms, rangg om five years to legal amendment was part of several reforms announced by the jtice mister on Saturday, cludg plans to crimalise apostasy - the abandonment of a relign - and to perm non-Mlims to nsume will also ban female genal mutilatn, which typilly volv the partial or total removal of the external genalia of girls and women, and allow women to travel wh their children whout a perm om a male relative, he said the ernment was discreet about droppg the ath penalty for gay sex and s amendment document did not tail what Article 148 - the sodomy law - was about.
“Congrats to the immoral people who achieved their misguid mands over female genal mutilatn, legimisg sodomy, drkg alhol, and openg bars and night clubs, ” said one Twter er wh the handle Elbarai, an LGBT+ activist based the pal Khartoum, weled the surprise move to lift the ath penalty but said would not change life much for gay people Sudan. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
”In July 2019, two gay men om St.
Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.
POPE, ANGLIN, PRBYTERIAN LEARS NOUNCE ANTI-GAY LAWS
One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry.
”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.
”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis, the head of the Anglin Communn and top Prbyterian mister together nounced the crimalizatn of homosexualy on Sunday and said gay people should be weled by their three Christian lears spoke out on LGBTQ rights durg an unprecented jot airborne news nference returng home om South Sudan, where they took part a three-day ecumenil pilgrimage to try to nudge the young untry’s peace procs were asked about Francis’ recent ments to The Associated Prs, which he clared that laws that crimalize gay people were “unjt” and that “beg homosexual is not a crime. ”South Sudan is one of 67 untri that crimaliz homosexualy, 11 of them wh the ath penalty.