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Killer gets 30 years for brutal slaying of Ugandan gay rights activist
A Ugandan court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for the brutal slaying earlier this year of David Kato, one of Uganda’s leading gay rights activists.
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LGBT History Month profile: David Kato, founder of Uganda gay rights movement
David Kato was the founder of Uganda’s LGBT civil rights movement. He was an outspoken advocate for equality in a country with some of the harshest anti-gay laws. His murder brought global attention to the plight of LGBT people in Uganda and Africa.
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Uganda’s only gay bar shut down for attracting ‘strange’ persons
The only openly gay and lesbian Bar in Uganda has been forcibly closed, according to its owner. The landlord padlocked by the property and said the bar was noisy and attracted “strange” persons frequenting it.
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Bigot Scott Lively warns: Gays are winning ‘culture war’ and taking prisoners
According to Scott Lively, head of the SPLC-declared hate group Abiding Truth Ministries, “Many Christians are only now awakening to the seriousness of the threat to our society posed by the homosexual movement. But, unfortunately for us all, it is only the sounding of the victory trumpets by gay activists that has stirred Christians from their slumber.”
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Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation and anti-gay hatred in Uganda
In his 2008 book, C. Peter Wagner states that the Dominion (or “Kingdom now”) theology of his movement traces through Christian Reconstructionist theologian R.J. Rushdoony, who advocate Biblical capital punishments such as stoning or burning at the stake for a wide range of alleged crimes — including homosexuality.
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Prayer cures AIDS, claims Uganda Health Minister tied to New Apostolic Reformation
Amid belated media recognition that the apostles of church-growth guru C. Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation dominated presidential hopeful Rick Perry’s August 6th “The Response” prayer event, some pundits are rushing to dismiss the political influence of dominionist factions within evangelical Christianity.
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Ghanaian Regional Minister orders witch hunt of suspected homosexuals
Though LGBT people are already deemed criminals in the West African nation of Ghana, it seems that persecution of gays and lesbians is only slated to get worse, as police services in the western portion of the nation have been ordered to round up all suspected homosexuals.
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Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill shelved as parliament adjourns
The future of Uganda’s infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill — dubbed the “Kill the Gays” bill — remains in limbo after parliament adjourned Friday without debating or voting on the controversial bill.
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Uganda to consider anti-homosexuality bill Friday; death penalty clause dropped
Amid global criticism of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill — dubbed the “Kill the Gays’ bill — proponents have removed a controversial death penalty clause, however the proposed legislation likely still includes the criminalization of all homosexual acts.
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Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill dropped from, then added to, Parliament’s agenda
Uganda’s infamous anti-homosexuality bill, which earlier this week was thought likely to be voted upon on Wednesday, now appears to have been dropped from the agenda of the current session of the Ugandan Parliament.