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The PR campaign to whitewash the right’s anti-gay Uganda history

Sunday, March 9, 2014

As a communications person myself, I can really appreciate a good PR campaign, and the best I’ve seen in a long time is the new effort by U.S. right-wing evangelicals to completely whitewash their own history…

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Uganda takes ‘moral’ high ground, dismisses U.S. pressure on anti-gay law

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s government on Tuesday dismissed calls by U.S. President Barack Obama not to sign an anti-homosexuality law, saying it was determined to protect the country’s “morals” even if that meant losing international aid.…

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Uganda president won’t sign anti-gay law without proof gays are not born that way

Monday, January 27, 2014

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Friday he would sign the country's controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill only on the condition that he receives scientific proof that gays are made and not born.

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Uganda president blocks controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Thursday, January 16, 2014

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has blocked the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill and has rebuked Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga for failure to follow parliamentary procedures by passing the law without a quorum, reports the Daily…

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Uganda archbishop: Gay bishops are ‘spiritual cancer’ that ‘infected’ Anglican church

Thursday, August 15, 2013

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, the head Uganda’s Anglican Church of Uganda, said that gay bishops are a "spiritual cancer" and do not belong in the Church.

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Judge allows landmark case against anti-gay religious leader to proceed

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- In a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and…

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Canada kick starts funding for gay rights initiatives in Uganda

Friday, March 8, 2013

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada -- A Canadian foreign affairs official acknowledged Friday that there are ongoing efforts to fund grassroots Ugandan LGBTQ advocacy organizations who are battling efforts by the Ugandan Parliament to pass that country’s proposed…

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Ugandan LGBT counselor arrested for homosexuality, ‘recruiting’ youth

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Police in Uganda on Monday arrested and LGBT youth counselor under laws which prohibit unnatural carnal acts — a definition which is widely understood to include homosexuality and "recruiting youth into homosexuality."

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Uganda parliament closes without taking up ‘Kill the Gays’ bill — Victory?

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Business will resume as normal in Uganda in February, as it has at the start of every parliamentary session since the "Kill the Gays" bill was proposed in 2009, with the possibility of the bill still…

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Uganda Parliament adjorns without taking action on ‘kill the gays’ bill

Friday, December 14, 2012

The Ugandan Parliament adjourned for the holidays on Friday, and again avoided taking any action on the controversial "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" that Speaker Rebecca Kadaga had promised would be approved as a "Christmas gift" to the nation.

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