{"id":3231,"date":"2010-10-31T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2010-10-31T01:04:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:04:31","slug":"republican-victory-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/31\/republican-victory-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Victory in Uganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican party may be on the verge of a win in their quest to foment a final solution for Uganda\u2019s gay population.&#160; I have previously documented Republican efforts to that end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/?p=320\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/?p=356\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"31Bahati\" border=\"0\" alt=\"31Bahati\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/31Bahati.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" \/>Homosexuality may soon be a capital offense in Uganda.&#160; David Bahati, Ugandan member of Parliament, and sponsor of <strong>Uganda&#8217;s notorious &quot;kill the gays&quot; bill<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/28\/ugandan-anti-gay-measure-will-be-law-soon-lawmaker-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">told CNN<\/a> in a recent interview that the <strong>controversial anti-gay bill will become law \u201csoon.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the bill becomes law it will punish homosexuality with life imprisonment or execution.<\/p>\n<p>The law would impose a minimum sentence of life imprisonment to anyone \u201cconvicted\u201d of having gay sex: life imprisonment to punish anything from &quot;sexual stimulation to simply touching another person with the intention of committing the act of homosexuality.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>If the accused person is HIV-positive or a serial offender, or a \u201cperson of authority\u201d over the other partner, or if the \u201cvictim\u201d is under 18, a conviction will result in the death penalty<\/strong>&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/humanist-in-portland\/uganda-kill-the-gays-bill-soon-to-be-law\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Examiner<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The tie in is the C-Street ministry, infamous for providing extreme legislators with cut-rate luxury housing, helping Republican legislators cover up sex scandals and ethics violations, and this.&#160; Here\u2019s an old Rachel Maddow video that ties up the lose ends.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qlqxY4iSuOs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qlqxY4iSuOs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If that\u2019s what Republicans think is good for Uganda, what wil;l they do here if they take power?<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican party may be on the verge of a win in their quest to foment a final solution for Uganda\u2019s gay population.&#160; I have previously documented Republican efforts to that end here and&#160; here. 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