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solarbirdI 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-12-12 04:13 pm (UTC)I did read this morning that Uganda passed a bill banning female genital mutilation. That's one thing they finally got right. One.
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Date: 2009-12-12 06:10 pm (UTC)I haven't read it yet but I'm looking forward to finding out more about this group that apparently wields a lot of power in D.C.
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Date: 2009-12-13 06:11 am (UTC)I really didn't envy the choices you guys had for the last election: a Chicago politician or a sleeper-agent for a rather scary cult. Or else you could have gone for a crazywoman from Alaska being a septuagenarian heartbeat away from the Big Red Button. Ugh...
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Date: 2009-12-13 08:00 pm (UTC)Our mass-media has been whipping up fear and extreme behavior for years, and even now when our national psyche is wounded, they continue to make it worse.
Every time Erik and I travel to another country, the people there display the kind of courtesy and consideration that we USED to display.
Now everyone has staked out a position and we're at each others throats. There's no open-mindedness or willingness to compromise. We can't even tolerate each others differences.
It's such a mess I'm not sure my country will ever fully recover from this shitty fucking decade, (which started with a stolen Presidential election and ended with an economic crime wave for which very few people are going to prison.)
Now more than ever, I want to move to New Zealand.
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Date: 2009-12-16 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 06:20 pm (UTC)Happy Holidays!
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Date: 2009-12-13 06:00 am (UTC)