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Permalink Reply by IAmTheBlog on December 2, 2009 at 4:08pm

I'm just glad this Rick Warren guy doesn't have any ties to anyone in high office in the US. Oh wait...

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Wilton on December 2, 2009 at 4:20pm

If passed this legislation will most likely form the pretext of a government sponsored witch-hunt against homosexuals!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/uganda-death-sentence-g...

Please find time to sign and share these petitions with as many people as possible, so as to bring media, public and government attention to this attrocity in the making: -

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Uganda_Christians/index.html

The following is for UK at ExPats only;

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ugandangays/

If anyone finds any more online petitions to sign can they send them on, or include them as part of this discussion. 

And if anyone has any ideas as to how we can make a difference, I'd like to hear more.  

- Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Nate on December 2, 2009 at 4:33pm

Thanks, Christopher.

The "witch-hunt" is one of the scariest parts of this:

This new draft bill includes a provision that could lead to the imprisonment for up to three years of anyone, including heterosexual people, who fails to report within 24 hours the identities of everyone they know who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or who supports human rights for people who are.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/15/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bil...

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Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on December 2, 2009 at 4:33pm

I think in Uganda they have regular witch-hunts, and now gay witch-hunts. I'd have expected the Westboro Baptist Church to support this, but now others in America support it or do nothing about it.

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Permalink Reply by Dallas (on hiatus) on December 2, 2009 at 4:46pm

Please write letters of protest to the following people.

President Yoweri Museveni
The Republic of Uganda
State House Nakasero
P.O.Box 24594
Kampala, Uganda

Jerry P. Lanier, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda
U.S. Embassy in Uganda
P.O. Box 7007,
Kampala
Uganda
http://kampala.usembassy.gov/

Perezi K. Kamunanwire, Ambassador to the United States
5911 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20011
Tel: (202) 726 4758
Fax: (202) 726 1727
pkamunanwire@ugandaembassyus.org


These organizations are apparently the ones who are spearheading these human rights injustices in Uganda. Here are their addresses as well.

Gay To Straight
P.O. Box 901
Bowie, MD 20718
IHFinfo@changeispossible.com

Abiding Truth Ministries
P.O. Box 2373
Springfield, MA 01101


Here is a Ugandan GLBT organization, if you wish to sign up or offer any support or help in any way: Sexual Minorities Uganda at www.sexualminoritiesuganda.org.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Wilton on December 2, 2009 at 5:36pm

Excellent stuff, I was going to a do a search for them myself but surfing the net at work is difficult, not to mention contra-indicated by my contract.

I'll get writing when I get home. Thanks for doing the leg work for me.

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Permalink Reply by Dallas (on hiatus) on December 2, 2009 at 5:44pm

Thank you. I've written to everyone except the Ambassadors, and I hope to do that this week.

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Permalink Reply by Friend of Dorothy on December 2, 2009 at 6:27pm

As soon as you saw the word Pastor, all supprise was gone. So long as it's permissable for religions to create Hate Groups for which they can vent their anger and discrimination, while the rest of the people allow it to happen without comment, nothing will change.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Wilton on December 3, 2009 at 1:31am

Some small developments, nothing to write home about; though I suspect Christians might be unduly appeased by such a "generous" concession: -

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE5B10FI20091202?sp=true

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Wilton on December 3, 2009 at 1:37pm

Interesting article and Care2.com does petitions as well, I'll flag up the links as and when I find them; but this article's - in itself - worth the effort.

http://www.care2.com/causes/human-rights/blog/uganda-gay-death-pena...

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