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Uganda lawmaker: Foreigners adopting kids ‘to train them on gay practices’
The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, is warning clergy members that gay foreigners were adopting Ugandan children “to train them on gay practices.”
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Rio de Janeiro celebrates gay pride, calls for end to homophobia
RIO DE JANEIRO — Gay rights activists are using Rio de Janeiro’s annual gay pride parade to demand laws against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Thousands of people paraded down Copacabana’s main coastal boulevard with rainbow flags and thematic floats, many dressed in carnival costumes or wearing t-shirts saying “Fight Against Homophobia.”
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Meet ‘Dr. Chaps’: Colorado’s new anti-gay, demon hunting state legislator
Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt, a radical anti-gay Religious Right activist who brags of having once tried to rid of woman of the “foul spirit of lesbianism” through an exorcism and who openly proclaims that “American law needs to reflect God’s law” and that our foreign policy must be based on the Bible, won election to the Colorado House of Representatives on Tuesday.
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8 men convicted, sentenced to 3 years in jail for alleged gay wedding in Egypt
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Saturday convicted eight men for “inciting debauchery” following their appearance in an alleged same-sex wedding party on a Nile boat, sentencing each of them to three years in prison. The Internet video shows two men exchanging rings and embracing among cheering friends. The eight were detained in September…
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Pat Robertson warns God may punish Houston for defending ‘militant homosexuals’
Last week, Pat Robertson reacted to a case in Houston in which a group of pastors were subpoenaed as part of the discovery process in a lawsuit over the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance by calling gay rights advocates “terrorists.” The subpoenas have since been withdrawn, but that has done nothing to rein in Robertson, who warned today on …
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Russian lawmaker: Ban Tim Cook for life, he’ll bring Ebola and AIDS to Russia
The Russian lawmaker behind the country’s gay propaganda law, said Thursday that Apple CEO Tim Cook should be banned from Russia “for life” because he is gay, and could bring Ebola or AIDS to Russia.
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At religious liberty conference, pastors told to hold the line on gay relationships
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than a thousand evangelical pastors and others – gathered for a three-day conference to steel the resolve of Christians who preach that gay relationships are sinful – were asked a simple question: How many live in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage?
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N.C. pastor refers to gay judicial candidate as ‘flaming homosexual’
RALEIGH, N.C. — An anti-LGBT pastor known for his advocacy against LGBT equality and marriage went on the attack against an openly gay judicial candidate at a press conference Thursday hosted by North Carolina Republican House Majority Leader Paul Stam.
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Human rights group: LGBT Jamaicans targets of unchecked violence
KINGSTON, Jamaica — LGBT people are the targets of unchecked violence and discrimination in Jamaica, frequently refused housing or employment in the Caribbean country typically described as the region’s most hostile to LGBT citizens, a leading human rights group says in a report released Tuesday.
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‘Christian’ family takes homophobia on the road to protest same-sex marriage
MERIDIAN, Idaho — An Idaho couple says they’re taking a stand against same-sex marriage and the “homosexual extremist movement,” because homosexuality “spreads like a cancer.” Justin and Melanie Sease of Meridian, Idaho stayed far away from the celebrations this week when same-sex couples began marrying in their home state, but …