Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)

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  American hate preacher tries to escape charges for promoting ‘Kill the Gays’ law

  Monday, November 7, 2016

  An East African gay advocacy group filed the lawsuit against minister Scott Lively under a statute that allows non-citizens to sue for violations of international law.

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  Appeals court: ‘Crimes against humanity’ case against Scott Lively can proceed

  Monday, December 8, 2014

  A federal appeals court has rejected a petition by anti-gay activist Scott Lively to dismiss a complaint that alleges he violated U.S. law by influencing the laws of Uganda.

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  Prominent Ugandan LGBT activist charged with sodomy, held without bail

  Saturday, November 16, 2013

  KAMPALA, Uganda-- Samuel Ganafa, the executive director of Spectrum Uganda Initiatives and board chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was arrested earlier this week on charges that he had sodomized another man and infected him with…

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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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  Scott Lively argument set for next week as persecution of gays escalates in Uganda

  Thursday, January 3, 2013

  When Scott Lively, the founder of Christian Evangelical group Abiding Truth Ministries journeyed to Uganda to incite the persecution of gays, he had no idea that his mission would lead to a lawsuit by Ugandans, on…

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  Report: U.S. Christian Right lobbies to implement anti-gay laws in Africa

  Tuesday, July 24, 2012

  SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Conservative U.S. Christian "family values" and religious organizations are setting up fronts in Africa to fight for anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation to promote their fundamentalist convictions, according to a report released Tuesday…

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  Lively claims lawsuit targets him for speaking anti-gay ‘truth of the Bible’

  Thursday, March 15, 2012

  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Scott Lively, the anti-gay U.S. evangelist who is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a Ugandan gay rights group, responded Thursday, and said he was being targeted "for speaking…

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  Ugandan gay rights group files lawsuit against U.S. evangelist Scott Lively

  Wednesday, March 14, 2012

  A Ugandan gay rights group on Wednesday filed suit in federal court in Massachusetts against notorious American evangelist, Scott Lively, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.

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