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CNN's John King refers to Romney as 'Governor Mormon' (VIDEO)

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Orrin Hatch: Obama thinks he’s Jesus Christ

By David Edwards Friday, February 3, 2012 11:05 EST Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is... more

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Romney takes a hit from the Christian right

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Randomness: Sex Terms for Dummies

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Indecision 2012: 'Sh*t Rich People Can Do' (VIDEO)

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Pope Orders 'Missal Launch' on Salt Lake City, Igniting a Holy War

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What America Thinks: GOP Candidates 'In A Word' (GRAPH)

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Mitt Romney Doesn’t Have a Friend in the Angel Moroni

Not long ago most Americans thought Mormons were an odd band of people who all lived... more

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Mitt Romney's Mormon issue returns

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Gay Mormon Gets Excommunicated, Loses Family, Takes His Own Life

Bryan Egnew, a 40-year old gay Mormon man who had a wife and five children, lost... more

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Mormon-owned TV station in Salt Lake City bans NBC’s 'Playboy Club'

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Dorothea Lange: Three Mormon Towns

In August 1953, renowned American photographer Dorothea Lange traveled to southern... more

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Men With Beards Wanted: This American Life

A young Utah artist searches for a life model to pose as Jesus in his increasingly... more

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Ugandan LGBT Advocate Murdered; Had Been Named By “Hang Them” Tabloid

We have learned that Ugandan LGBT advocate David Kato Kisulle was murdered today at his home in Kampala. Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) has confirmed that the David’s body was identified at a hospital.

Update: I have also confirmed this with SMUG’s Pepe Julian Onziema, who identified David’s body in the hospital morgue. Police are investigating.

The details surrounding his murder are unknown at this time. He was reportedly beaten in the skull with a hammer at his home. We do not yet know whether it was a single assailant or a group of people, nor do we know any other circumstances surrounding his death.

Update: More details from Human Rights Watch:

Witnesses told police that a man entered Kato’s home in Mukono at around 1 p.m. on January 26, 2011, hit him twice in the head and departed in a vehicle. Kato died on his way to Kawolo hospital. Police told Kato’s lawyer that they had the registration number of the vehicle and were looking for it.

David Kato was a spokesperson for Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and one of the plaintiffs (or applicants) in the successful lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against the Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone (no relation to the U.S. publication of the same name). Kato was one of three applicants who had been named by the tabloid under a headline tagged “Hang Them!” His photo appeared on the tabloid’s front cover.

LGBT Ugandans have lived under a menacing atmosphere for more than a decade. The anti-gay hysteria has increased significantly since the introduction of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill into parliament in 2009. That bill, which remains under review Parliamentary committee, would impose the death penalty on LGBT Ugandans under certain circumstances and criminalize all advocacy by or on behalf of LGBT people. It would also criminalize even knowing someone who is gay if that person fails to report their LGBT loved one to police within 24 hours. Parliamentary elections are scheduled for February 18, and the bill is expected to be considered after Parliament returns for a lame-duck session before the new Parliament begins in May.

This horrendous murder adds to the fears that LGBT Ugandans regularly face over their safety. Brenda Namigadde, a lesbian asylum seeker in the U.K. has been threatened with deportation back to Uganda. Just yesterday, she received an ominous message from M.P. David Bahati, the author of the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill, in which he said that Brenda must “repent or reform” when she returns home:

Brenda is welcome in Uganda if she will abandon or repent her behaviour. Here in Uganda, homosexuality is not a human right. It is behaviour that is learned and it can be unlearned. We wouldn’t want Brenda to be painting a wrong picture of Uganda, that we are harassing homosexuals.

M.P. Bahati may be technically correct. They are simply killing homosexuals, not harassing them.

David has served as the Advocacy and Litigation Officer for SMUG since 2004, according to his facebook profile. He also attended the University of York where he studied Human Rights.

Update: Mourners are posting message on David’s facebook wall.We have learned that Ugandan LGBT advocate David Kato Kisulle was murdered today at... more

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Save-the-Kid- from-Gays Pastor Arrested

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A Flowchart To Determine What Religion You Should Follow (PHOTO) - The Daily Blender

A Flowchart To Determine What Religion You Should Follow

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Thousands Protest Outside Mormon Church Over LDS Leader’s Anti-Gay Remarks

An estimated 4,500 gay rights advocates gathered outside the headquarters of the Mormon church Thursday evening to protest recent remarks from a church leader that homosexuality is an immoral condition that can be cured.

The demonstrators, mostly dressed in black, laid down on the ground and twice encircled Temple Square, a ten acre complex in downtown Salt Lake City.

The protest was response to remarks by Boyd K. Packer, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, on Oct. 3 during a sermon against same-sex marriage and pornography.

Packer said that the LDS Church would always oppose same-sex marriage, that gays and lesbians could change their sexual orientation to straight, and compared homosexuality to “a habit or addiction that is unworthy,” calling same-sex attraction “impure and unnatural.”

The ill-timed remarks come on the heels of the suicides of at least six teenagers over the past month, all victims of anti-gay bullying or harassment.

> “We represent all colors of the rainbow tonight. We are lesbian, gay, bisexual,
> transgender, straight, black, white, latino, Mormon, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and
> atheist – but we all stand firm in one thing, stop destroying our children,” said
> organizer Eric Ethington, who blogs at PrideinUtah.com.

> “And to the youth of the church: Never let anyone tell you that you need to be any
> different than who you are. There are thousands in this state alone who will love you
> and accept you. You are beautiful and perfect just the way you are!”

The Human Rights Campaign has called Packer’s comments “inaccurate and dangerous rhetoric.”

“Unless Elder Packer or the Mormon Church’s hierarchy corrects these inaccurate statements immediately, individuals will interpret them to mean that the church condones discrimination or harassment against LGBT people and others struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identify could rationalize the statements to continue their self-loathing or bring harm to themselves,” the HRC said in a statement.An estimated 4,500 gay rights advocates gathered outside the headquarters of the... more

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Mormon leader Boyd Packer: One more school yard bully harassing gay kids

Boyd K. Packer, president of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles and second highest ranking... more

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Many Americans Know Little About Religion -- Even Their Own -- Poll Finds

How much does it matter that most Americans don't know that Maimonides was... more

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Summer Doc Round-up: Restrepo, Winnebago Man, and 8: The Mormon Proposition

Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox review a selection of summer documentaries, including... more

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