Uganda

I have very little time right now, but there may be progress in Uganda. Gay Uganda says the death penalty portion may be out of the bill, but he can't be sure - the published text still has the death penalty, and statements to the opposite have only been made to foreign papers, not Ugandan. Of course, it still includes life in prison, criminal penalties (years in jail) for not reporting GBLT people to the police, criminal penalties for defending the rights of GBLT people in any way, and so on, but it's a start.

Also, The Reverend Philip J. Bené, J.C.D., Legal Attaché, Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations made a direct statement against the bill. This is good. Keep up the pressure, any Catholics reading this, because Catholic bishops in Uganda are still actively pushing for the bill's adoption as-is, Holy See commentary be damned. Apparently.

Rick Warren has finally made a clear statement against the bill. But the fundamentalist email and telephone trees are, I hear, still resoundingly silent.

There appears to be some movement. Keep pushing.