Gays in Africa face growing persecution

[pgodbold]

"Gay people have been denied access to health care, detained, tortured and even killed, human rights activists and witnesses say."

The sentence above is what I'd call a real list of problems. Count your blessings.

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/11/AR2010121103045.html

Washington Post

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Thanks to The Family -

...the Family Research Council, and their ilk. :puke:

I think we as Americans have a responsibilty to work agains this insanity in Uganda and the like.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Whoops! Accidentally unrecc'd

Someone please rec for me.

I would like to see DoS bring more pressure to bear. Perhaps even threaten foreign aid payments.

Murder is never acceptable and hate-based murder is unfathomable.

[Glorfindel]

3. Happy to oblige! Your accidental "unrec" is nullified

n/t

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. This part is 1 part "Thank-you" and 1 part "kick"

[foxfeet]

4. K&R to keep it visible.

[FreeState]

5. K&R

[Shallah Kali]

7. Report: The U.S. Christian Right and the Attack on Gays in Africa

http://www.publiceye.org/publications/globalizing-the-culture-wars

A groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) discovered that sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars. U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight. Read more

Don't forget who is egging them on over there while denouncing it over here. Imagine for a moment what they would do if they though they could get away with it in the US.

[glinda]

8. The are already trying to go that way here.

[TriMera]

9. k & r. n/t

[sarcasmo]

10. religion makes me ill.