In an interview for the Daily Monitor in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni has said there is no discrimination, no killings, no marginalization and no luring of young people using money into homosexual acts in Uganda. Mr Museveni said issues relating to sexual minority groups have been “distorted” leading to the wrong public debate. Mr Museveni [...]
President Yoweri Museveni says there is no killing or marginalisation of sexual minorities in Uganda
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RC Bishop of Shrewsbury’s toxic Christmas sermon to attack equal marriage
, December 24th, 2012 8 Comments
Today the Daily Mail reports that the Bishop of Shrewsbury, the Rt Revd Mark Davies will say in his sermon at the midnight mass this evening: “We think of the ideologies of the past century, Communism and Nazism, which in living memory threatened to shape and distort the whole future of humanity. “These inhuman ideologies [...]
Uganda Parliament to adjourn until 2013 without action on Anti-Homosexuality Bill
, December 15th, 2012 3 Comments
Warren Throckmorton reported yesterday that according to Parliament spokeswoman Helen Kawesa, the Ugandan Parliament will adjourn from 14 December 2012 until February 4, 2013. After considering the Accountants Bill, Parliament will begin a Christmas recess with the next scheduled sitting being in the new year. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill will not have a second reading until [...]
U.S. envoy meets Ugandan leaders over anti-gay bill
, November 27th, 2012 1 Comment
According to the US State Department, the leading U.S. diplomat in Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, met with high-profile leaders in Uganda “over the weekend” and raised concerns about the anti-gay bill, which among other things would punish homosexual acts with life in prison. During a daily briefing on Monday, [...]
Ugandan anti homosexuality bill: Legal committee endorses bill
, November 23rd, 2012 2 Comments
The Legal and Parliamentary committee has today endorsed a report prescribing life imprisonment to the offence of aggravated homosexuality in the controversial bill. An MTV Uganda television report has interviews. The controversial Anti homosexuality bill 2009 was introduced by Ndorwa East Mp David Bahati as a private members bill. The committee chaired by Kajara county MP [...]
Uganda anti-homosexuality about may come to parliament this week
, November 21st, 2012 Be
Frank Mugisha of SMUG has just reported that Parliament of Uganda Order Paper for Wednesday 21st November 2012 lists as Notice of Business to follow: No.3 The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2012. Frank says it may be debated tomorrow or Friday.
The first woman bishop in the Anglican Church in South Africa consecrated
, November 17th, 2012 Be
Today, the new Bishop of Swaziland, the first woman to be consecrated in the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, was consecrated. Here is the Archbishop of Cape Town, ++Thabo Makoba’s account of the service: And now our task has been completed! It is done! Welcome to Bishop Ellinah! We formed into three processions, and, like [...]
Ugandan Parliament Speaker Kadaga wants anti-gay Bill tabled
, November 16th, 2012 Be
Ms Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament has directed the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee to present the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2011 on the floor of Parliament. The committee chairperson, Mr Stephen Tashobya, passed on her directive to committee members yesterday as he summoned them to attend next week’s session in person “to have [...]
Statement presented to Speaker of Ugandan Parliament by Coalition of religious leaders
, November 14th, 2012 Be
On her blog Oblogdeeoblogda, Melanie Nathan has given the names of some of those who attended the Public Meeting with Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alitwala Rebecca Kadaga at the CHOGM Gardens next to the Parliament of Uganda on November 9, 2012 and has given the text of the statement by the Coalition of Religious [...]
Overcoming systemic abuse and inequality with healthy, holy, creative Christian patterns and values
, November 14th, 2012 Be
Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham, has asked a “systemic question” on Facebook this morning in the context of the news that Peter Ball, former bishop of Lewes and Gloucester, has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse. Bishop Alan wonders what contribution Reactionary Sexist Culture and Inequality expressing itself in a hierarchy that took itself [...]
