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Uganda's "kill the gays" bill also targets gay-tolerant

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Uganda's Kill-the-Straight-Friends-of-Gays Bill

President Obama’s remarks today have drawn attention back to Uganda’s Kill-the-Gays bill. And the media still hasn’t gotten it right. Some conservatives offer the outright lie that it only intends to execute child molesters and people who deliberately spread HIV. The liberal media points out that the bill would also execute people who merely have gay sex more than once.

But the facts are much worse than that. I’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating. Here are two examples of people who could be put to death:

* Someone who has gay sex once and doesn’t turn his partner in to the authorities.
* A straight person who doesn’t turn in a gay friend after hearing about about a couple romantic evenings.

You don’t have be gay to be executed under this bill. Here’s how easily the government could put you to death:

1. The death penalty applies to anyone convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.”
2. Aggravated homosexuality includes all “serial offenders.”
3. A serial offender is “a person who has previous convictions of the offense of homosexuality or related offenses.”
4. Related offenses (Part III of the bill) include not ratting out your gay friends (if you are a person of religious, political, economic, or social [!] authority).

It’s a two-strikes-and-you’re-dead bill. And if you dig into the logic, merely keeping silent about someone who’s keeping silent is enough to count as a strike.

http://wakingupnow.com/blog/kill-the-straight-friends-of-gays
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23 comments // Uganda's "kill the gays" bill also targets gay-tolerant

  • ryan8566
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • There has to be a way to stop this bullshit and have The Family aka Cowards, be labeled as an extremist group. They are behind this and should be looked upon just like Al Qaeda...

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • KSirys
    • 0
      KSirys  
    • ryan8566:

      well, that's your opinion, but a group that manipulates others in believing killing a certain group of people, is the right thing, should be considered an extremist group. Just because the family does it indirectly, it doesn't mean they can get away with it.

    • 2 years ago
  • obamaisajoke
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  • mojojuju
  • desertcat
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      desertcat  

    • It also targets the person who knows someone is gay and does not report them. Seems like Uganda has not advanced much from the days of Idi "I eat my enemies" Amin. the American senators who support this need to reminded why this country was formed and what it is suppose to stand for. Would they have supported this law if it were issue by Khrushchev, Castro or any communist leader?

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  

    • The larger story is that American Congresscritters are behind this and they are members of the Fellowship or the Family:

      * Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Ok.)
      * Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.)
      * Senator Tom Coburn (R-Ok.)
      * Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)
      * Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
      * Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
      * former Senator Dan Coats (R-Mich.)
      * Representative Joe Pitts (R-Pa.)
      * Representative Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)
      * Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.)
      * former Representative Chip Pickering (R-Miss.)
      * former Representative Steve Largent (R-Ok.)
      * former Representative Tony Hall (R.-Ohio)
      * Representative Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.)
      * Representative Randy Forbes (R-Va.)
      * Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)
      * Governor Mark Sanford (R)
      * former Attorney General Edwin Meese (R)
      * former Attorney General John Ashcroft (R)
      * and former Secretary of State James Baker (R)

      Documented historic associates include

      * Senator Ralph Brewster (R-Maine)
      * Senator Frank Carlson (R-Kan.)
      * Senator Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.)
      * Senator B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.)
      * Senator Mark Hatfield (R-Or.)
      * Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC.)
      * Senator Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.)
      * Senator Homer Capehart (R-Ind.))
      * Senator Absalom Willis Robertson (D-Va.)
      * Representative Walter Judd (R-Minn.)
      * Representative O.K. Armstrong
      * Representative Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.)
      * Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D-S.C.)

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
    • +1
      SleepDirt  
    • SleepDirt:

      Military officials who are documented as having worked with the Fellowship include

      * former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John William Vessey, Jr.
      * former Chief of Staff of the Army Harold K. Johnson

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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  • bethopea
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      bethopea  

    • This is really sad.
      The hypocrisy just kills me. If the reason to discriminate gays is due to religious faith, yet doesn't it teach NOT to kill people either and to tolerate them regardless of their orientation? If you do not believe in homosexuality because you believe in God and what it teaches in the bible, then why in the world would you commit a sin and kill!? Unless they are using faith as a scapegoat for their own fears...but that would just be schitzo-crazy!

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • bethopea:

      The Family has a number of affiliated organizations.

      * Wilberforce Foundation[1] IRS Form 990 filings confirm that Wilberforce is related to and shares common management with the Fellowship Foundation.[17]
      * Traditional Values Coalition. Uses their C Street House for “faith-based diplomacy”[5] in the fight against what Louis P. Sheldon calls the “Marxist/Leftist/Homosexual/Islamic coalition.”[18]
      * Three Swallows Foundation
      * International Center for Religion & Diplomacy[19]
      * Christians in Parliament[20]
      * Young Life International[21]
      * Trees for the Future[22]
      * National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise[22]
      * Cornerstone Development[22]
      * World Concern[22]
      * Project Mercy[22]
      * Timothy Trust[22]
      * Asociación Desarrollo en Democracia[22]
      * World Vision[23]

    • 2 years ago
  • sk0j0
  • BrittanyL
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      BrittanyL  

    • I've always had a strong belief that the U.S. shouldn't get involve with the affairs of another country. However, I can't help but have a strong feeling that I should do something about this, or at least the community. My worse fear is that this bill will lead to bloodshed, and perhaps more crimes Uganda has committed against humanity.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • bethopea
  • ryan8566
  • bethopea
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      bethopea  
    • ryan8566:

      rape is a large problem in uganda, regardless of if it is men on men, women on women, men or women, and women on men...but you and I both know the male to female rape is the most prominent. point is, they are trying to effect laws to stop gays but none to stop rape...

    • 2 years ago
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