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How Deep Is the Republican Christian Right’s Connection to the Anti-Gay Bills Sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa?

Posted by Features 11 Feb 2012

Source: AlterNet. Uganda’s notorious “kill-the-gays” bill, supported by some far-right Christian advocates in United States, was placed back on the Ugandan Parliament’s schedule for a vote yesterday. The proposed legislation punishes repeated instances of “homosexual behavior” – or sex – with the death penalty. Unless a member of Parliament releases the date and time to the public, it could be brought before the [...]

Is this secretive Christian group a threat to US church/state division?

Posted by Christian Right Watch, News, Top Stories 3 Feb 2011

Source: The Guardian. Unlike populist Christian conservative organisations whose members make frequent appearances on the cable news networks, The Family prefers to function mostly under the radar, away from the glare of the national spotlight.

Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Is Beaten to Death

Posted by Christian Right Watch, News, Top Stories 27 Jan 2011

Source: The New York Times. In Oct. 2010, “Rolling Stone,” a newspaper in Kampala, published photographs of gay Ugandans. Included was one of David Kato, a gay activist, who was killed on Wednesday. As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, he had received a stream of death threats.

Hide/Seek: Too shocking for America

Posted by Freedom of the presss, Wall of Separation 6 Dec 2010

These images, from America’s first major exhibition of gay art, have outraged the country’s right – leading to one of them being banned. Brian Logan meets the show’s defiant curator

‘Hate group’ designation angers same-sex marriage opponents

Posted by News 25 Nov 2010

Source: Washington Post, 24 November 2010. The Southern Poverty Law Center this week labeled as “hate groups” several political and religious organizations that campaign against same-sex marriage and, the center says, engage in “repeated, groundless name-calling” against gays and lesbians. Included on the list released by the civil rights organization is the Family Research Council, a prominent [...]

UN Vote Allowing Gays To Be Executed Result Of Political, Religious Fundamentalism

Posted by Top Stories 24 Nov 2010

Source: The New Civil Rights Movement, 23 November 2010. By Professor Tanya L. Domi. Tens of thousands of readers of The New Civil Rights Movement over the weekend read, “UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause,” the shocking news about the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural [...]

US shaken by sudden surge of violence against gay people

Posted by Christian Right Watch, News 17 Oct 2010

Source: The Guardian, 17 October 2010. For Alan Bounville it has felt like a lonely protest. For 16 days he has held a vigil outside the campaign office of Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York senator, holding a sign calling for equal civil rights for gay people. The 33-year-old New Yorker has suffered the stares of [...]

Supreme Court looks at military funeral protests

Posted by News 1 Oct 2010

Source: The Washington Post, 30 September 2010. One thing Al Snyder wants to make clear: His boy fought and died for freedom in Iraq, but not for the right of some “wackos” to spew hate at soldiers’ funerals under the protection of the Constitution. “It’s an insult to myself, my family and the veterans to [...]

Dangerous Liaisons

Posted by Christian Right Watch 1 Oct 2010

Source: Advocate, 29 September 2010. By Jeff Sharlet. At the airport into Entebbe, the gateway for flights in and out of Uganda, near the capital city of Kampala, I recently met Tommy and Teresa Harris, a pair of American missionaries. She had friendly brown curls; he wore a salt-and-pepper sea captain’s beard. You could tell [...]

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