Ethpian church groups are angry a US-based gay tourist operator plans to vis relig s.
Contents:
- GAY ETHPIA?
- ALL POSTS TAGGED "ETHPIAN GAY"
- ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
- ISRAELI, ETHPIAN AND GAY
- ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY
GAY ETHPIA?
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A ld tile floor and threadbare ts have never seemed so the gigglg, affectnate men acted this way – unabashedly, stereotypilly gay – on the streets of Ethpia's pal, they uld be expelled, beaten up, fired, disowned, or jailed. Unlike Mrania, Sudan, and Northern Nigeria, Ethpia don't mandate the ath penalty for same-sex sexual acts, but thanks to dranian laws that forbid activism while allowg Wtern evangelils to promote homophobia, Ethpia is on track to jo their many untri, 's gettg better for the LGBT muny.
ALL POSTS TAGGED "ETHPIAN GAY"
Given that a volunteer who, say, dar to hand out lubrint to gay men uld face imprisonment and jeopardize his or her groups' larger-sle work, anizatns have cid 's not worth the risk. Gays are persecuted Uganda, but that untry's health mistry recently admted that specialized clics for LGBT people have helped bat HIV rat; Dr. Ketebirhan Admasu, the Ethpian Mister of Health, would only tell Newsweek that homosexualy is unlikely to be crimalized " the near future, " although any person "n accs any type of servic regardls of their sexual orientatn.
ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
State Department "livers this msage" is by pyg and pastg the same two paragraphs year after year s Ethpian Human Rights Report, which briefly not "some reports of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals" while acknowledgg that "reportg was limed due to fear of retributn, discrimatn, or stigmatizatn.
ISRAELI, ETHPIAN AND GAY
"Feelg God's HateMost Ethpians sist that homosexualy is a Wtern disease, says Mercy, a 28-year-old LGBT activist who fled to Washgton, D. A 26-year-old Ethpian who currently studi Boston and go by the name Happy on Facebook said that he grew up thkg was a "Wtern thg" to be gay. "Lears of Ethpian Mlims, heads of the Orthodox, Prottant and Catholic church, ernment officials, members of the Ethpian Parliament, lears of polil parti, and youth anizatns routely put their differenc asi to attend nferenc on the "gay problem" – one last year, entled "Homosexualy and Its Associated Social Disastro Consequenc, " was held the Ain Unn headquarters Addis Ababa.
ETHPIA GAY LIBRARY
"Ethpians do not need their inty to be dictated for them om outsi no matter how wealthy or powerful the forc applyg the prsure, " Abune Plos, the former head of the Ethpian Orthodox Church, told nference goers last, while Ethpia prohibs foreign LGBT-related activism, wel ternatnal relig groups that preach homophobia.
"Last year's anti-gay nference and others like are anized and fund by Uned for Life Ethpia, an anizatn that receiv fundg om the U. In May 2013, Uned for Life Ethpia hosted a workshop durg which police told ernment officials, relig lears and health profsnals that "homosexual fay members and neighbors" were likely to sexually abe children.
A reprentative om the Ethpian Inter-Relig Council Agast Homosexualy announced that the uncil was makg "promisg" progrs nvcg the ernment to troduce the ath penalty to punish "homosexual acts. " Uned for Life Ethpia's print, Seyoum Antoni, has ma clear that he won't qu anti-gay advocy until Ethpia adopts the ath penalty.