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Uganda's Kill The Gays Bill Is Back

Jim Burroway reports at Box Turtle Bulletin:
The Parliament’s Business Committee met today and agreed to move the revived Anti-Homosexuality Bill forward to the full house, possibly as early as tomorrow when the Ninth Parliament begins its third sitting following its Christmas break. There are reports that several lawmakers in Parliament are aggressively pushing for the bill’s passage as part of broader anger over the American and British announcements making nations’ protections of LGBT rights a component of foreign policy.
The bill was created with the help of American evangelists, some of whom have since denounced its death penalty component. Story developing...

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