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Ugandan parliament to debate anti-gay bill
Ugandan lawmakers will debate a controversial anti-gay bill calling for severe punishments for homosexuality in the near future, a parliamentary spokeswoman said Thursday. The proposed legislation could come up for debate in the next few days after it was included as the third item on Thursday’s order paper for parliamentary…
Italian police forced to apologize for gay slur in training manual
Italian police apologised this week after they were forced to change a training manual that listed homosexuality as a “sexual deviance” in the same category as bestiality, incest and necrophilia. A passage in the 585-page manual, which was being used internally in officer exams in the Carabinieri police force, read:…
Uganda bans 38 NGOs for ‘promotion’ of LGBT issues
Uganda will ban 38 nongovernmental organisations for spreading homosexuality, the minister for ethics and integrity said on Wednesday. “I have investigated and established beyond reasonable doubt that these NGOs have been involved in the promotion and recruitment in terms of the [gay] issues,” Minister Simon Lokodo told AFP. Lokodo did…
Gambia president won’t take aid to accept homosexuality
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has warned foreign diplomats his country would not be “bribed” with aid to accept homosexuality. His comments late Saturday come less than two weeks after 19 people, including Gambians, Senegalese and Nigerians were arrested and charged with indecent practices after being “suspected of homosexuality”. “If you are to give…
Japan all-girl group ad ‘encourages homosexuality’
A commercial showing members of wildly popular all-girl band AKB48 passing bite-sized candies seductively from mouth-to-mouth is under fire in Japan for encouraging homosexuality. The advertisement, which aired in March, shows the school uniform-clad young women — all in their late teens or early 20s — intimately exchanging the sweet, with the close-up footage slowing…
St. Petersburg bans ‘homosexual propaganda’
By Miriam Elder Twenty years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia, anti-gay legislation is making a rapid comeback, with St Petersburg becoming the latest city to ban “homosexual propaganda”. The law, signed by St Petersburg’s governor last week, came amid increasing calls by leading Russian politicians and Orthodox Church officials…
Bachmann to Piers Morgan: ‘Rude’ to say I am judgmental
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told CNN’s Piers Morgan on Monday that it was rude to describe her as judgmental because of her public opinions about homosexuality. “I am not here as anybody’s judge,” she said. “Well, you’ve been pretty judgmental in the past,” Morgan responded. “Me?” a surprised Bachmann said.…
Kirk Cameron: Homosexuality is ‘unnatural and destructive’
Actor Kirk Cameron presented himself as not holding auspicious views on the LGBT community Friday evening, labeling homosexuality as “unnatural” and “destructive to so many foundations of civilization.” Cameron’s harsh assessment bewildered CNN host Piers Morgan, who asked the “Growing Pains” actor what he would say if one of his…
Santorum denies equating bestiality and homosexuality
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that he did not compare homosexuality to having sex with animals in a 2003 interview. In the now-infamous interview, an Associated Press reporter asked Santorum if he thought homosexuals should not have sex. He responded by saying that sodomy, adultery and polygamy all…
Pat Robertson: Gays can ‘un-acquire’ homosexuality
Televangelist Pat Robertson offered a simple solution Wednesday to gays who want to be straight: just ‘un-acquire’ homosexuality. A viewer named “Tommy” asked Robertson how he could show his gay son “the love of Jesus when you know his sexual preference is an abomination?” “You want to say, ‘look I…
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