Urgent Attention Required - The Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill.

[GenesForLife]

Dear all,

If you are not already aware of the impending ratification of the Ugandan anti-homosexual bill I would like to tell you that it may be passed in as less as seventy-two hours. It is a piece of legislation that seeks to impose the death penalty at worst on homosexuals and life imprisonment at best. People are trying to get petitions organized to try and pressurize the Ugandan president to veto the bill.

Petitions are here.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_hom ... ion/?rc=fb

http://www.allout.org/en/petition/uganda

A relevant blog post by Julietoo is here.

http://exploreable.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... lity-bill/

Another one by Meekychuppet is here

http://sevenzarkseven.posterous.com/uga ... -blog-post

I urge you to do your best to spread the word and to sign the petition.


Thank you and Regards.
GenesForLife.

[Bella Fortuna]

Thanks for the links, Gene.

[GenesForLife]

Thanks for the links, Gene.

Unfortunately it will count for sweet bugger all if it doesn't stop the bill from becoming law, Bella. All we will have is the scant satisfaction of having tried to stop it, and failed.

[Geoff]

Cheers, Genes, signed and shared on fb.

[Bella Fortuna]

Unfortunately that may be the reality of it. Still - the world must make noise about such atrocities...

[charlou]

Yup.

Meeky and Julietoo

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Signed.

[Rob]

Signed.

This.

[anna09]

Signed and shared.

[Ronja]

Signed, shared and tweeted.

[Azathoth]

[Gawd]

According to the census of 2002, Christians made up about 84% of Uganda's population.[31] The Roman Catholic Church has the largest number of adherents (41.9%), followed by the Anglican Church of Uganda (35.9%). Evangelical and Pentecostal churches claim the rest of the Christian population. The next most reported religion of Uganda is Islam, with Muslims representing 12% of the population.[31] The Muslim population is primarily Sunni; there is also a minority belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda#Religion

I will wait for Seth to blame the Muslims.

[amok]

Signed. Sigh.

[Coito ergo sum]

According to the census of 2002, Christians made up about 84% of Uganda's population.[31] The Roman Catholic Church has the largest number of adherents (41.9%), followed by the Anglican Church of Uganda (35.9%). Evangelical and Pentecostal churches claim the rest of the Christian population. The next most reported religion of Uganda is Islam, with Muslims representing 12% of the population.[31] The Muslim population is primarily Sunni; there is also a minority belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda#Religion

I will wait for Seth to blame the Muslims.

It had to be some religious group. Given the chance, this what most of them do.

[Rob]

According to the census of 2002, Christians made up about 84% of Uganda's population.[31] The Roman Catholic Church has the largest number of adherents (41.9%), followed by the Anglican Church of Uganda (35.9%). Evangelical and Pentecostal churches claim the rest of the Christian population. The next most reported religion of Uganda is Islam, with Muslims representing 12% of the population.[31] The Muslim population is primarily Sunni; there is also a minority belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda#Religion

I will wait for Seth to blame the Muslims.

It had to be some religious group. Given the chance, this what most of them do.

I remember watching a documentary of some sort with Christopher Hitchens. He made the claim then that he believed left unchecked religions would cause destruction, mayhem and end up destroying civilization. I always thought he was exaggerating and full of it. I'm not so sure anymore.