Anti-Gay Leaders Hold Summit in Uganda

GLBTQ rights in Uganda have sucked for years, with open persecution by of gay, lesbians and other queers being propagated by hateful and ignorant people in positions of power. The country has instilled oppressive laws against homosexuality and court cases have challenged these. The police and mobs have taken to routinely beating, torturing and killing gays, ostensibly to protect the population from immorality. (Apparently, killing unarmed people who love each other is not immoral in Uganda. Lucky break, there.) Recently however, things went from bad to worse with the help of the import of US gay-bashing whack jobs. According to Casey Sanchez at the Southern Poverty Law Center: "A bizarre trio of American anti-gay leaders arrived in the Ugandan capital of Kampala Thursday to stage a three-day seminar, "Exposing the Truth Behind Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda," in a country where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death." Full Story from the Daily Kos

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