18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Stedfast Baptist Church, which was forced to leave two lotns Tarrant County last year and recently bought a buildg Cedar Hill, was the subject of protts church was found Fort Worth 2014 and is led by pastor Jonathan Shelley, who advoted for “pal punishment” for gay people at an Arlgton Cy Council meetg last year and, a sermon, doubted that the Nazis killed six ln Jews. The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth.

Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May. The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. Government spokman Mos Kunkuyu told protters the admistratn would take to acunt the ncerns raised by relig monstratns cid wh a nstutnal urt se brought by Jan Willem Akstar, a Dutch NGO worker, and Jana Gonani, a lol transgenr pair is seekg to have bans on same-sex marriage and gay-sex overturned, argug they vlate the right to privacy and digny, among sex is a crimal offence punishable by up to 14 years jail the and Gonani have separately faced charg unr the lonial-era legislatn outlawg was sentenced to eight years jail 2021.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Their s were joed before the nstutnal urt, which will beg heargs next 's jtice mistry issued a moratorium on arrts and prosecutns for nsensual homosexual acts 2012, but the orr was spend by the High Court 2016 pendg a judicial review. Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame. ” Addnally, he flted this "unnatural behavr" wh spreadg disease and nfg children about proper genr pro-gay groups and supporters submted a petn llg for him to apologize and take his post down, Gipson ignored them and doubled down.