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(CNN) -- A Ugandan newspaper published a story featuring a list of the nation's "top" gays and lesbians with their photos and addresses, angering activists who say the already marginalized group risks facing further attacks.
Earlier this month, Rolling Stone newspaper -- not affiliated with the U.S. magazine with the same name -- featured 100 pictures of Uganda's gays and lesbians. Next to the list was a yellow strip with the words "hang them."
The story comes about a year after a Ugandan lawmaker introduced a measure that calls for the death penalty or long jail terms for those wh
Originally posted by KingDoey
It is not our place to intervene with what goes on in another country
Originally posted by KingDoey
reply to post by Nutter
The UK has been a participant in all of these conflicts (bar major troop deployment in Vietnam) either because it has had aggresion shown towards it or because it is backing up an Allied country.
War is different. You are talking about a completly different set of factors for intervention.
If you want to talk about intervention for social issues then why hasn't somebody sent a military force to clear up the streets of our glorious homeland of benefit busters and feral youths?
Why should the western world have any concern as to what goes on elsewhere when at this given moment in time there are much greater problems that need to be addressed in our own countries?
Let the Ugandans do what they want it doesnt affect us
Originally posted by Nutter
reply to post by Elsek
All I can say is I wish the gays in Uganda good luck and I hope they arm themselves to the teeth to take a few nuckle draggers with them. Imagine what would have happened had the "witches" armed themselves with machine guns.
Originally posted by JIMC5499
It's their country. They are free to do what they want, just like Iran is free to build an atomic bomb.
An anti-gay bill in Uganda that proposes the death penalty and long prison sentences for homosexual acts. Uganda’s Parliament — encouraged by American evangelicals (who converted Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, pictured below) — in October introduced a new draft legislation, The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, that will “… greatly expand criminal penalties against lesbians and gays.” Currently, “carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature” carries a sentence of up to 7+ years imprisonment under Uganda’s penal code. The proposed legislation seeks to imprison anyone convicted of “the offense of homosexuality” for life, while “aggravated homosexuality,” will incur the death penalty.