Ugandan Anglican Church Canon Gideon Byamugisha said that if the government carries through on a threat to pass into law an Anti-Homosexuality Bill, purposing the death penalty for anyone repeatedly convicted of engaging in homosexual acts and prison sentences for anyone who fails to report homosexual activity to the police, would cultivate criminal levels of intolerance and violence. “I believe this bill,” Byamugisha said, “will be state-legislated genocide against a specific community of Ugandans, however few they may be.” He added that gay men and women were being used as “scapegoats” by politicians eager to manipulate the anti-gay mood in the county, blaming homosexuals for the country’s social problems like the breakdown of the family and rising HIV infection rates, all with an eye towards the election year of 2011.
Uganda, meanwhile, remains defiant, determined to pass into law what is essentially a government led extermination of an entire class of people based entirely on sexual orientation, the country’s Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo responding to threats made Thursday by Sweden to cut of aid, Buturo saying the law will be passed since “homosexuality will not be promoted, encouraged or supported in Uganda.” He added that the foreign donors should remember “that there is integrity to be defended and threats are not the way to go. If one chooses to withdraw their aid, they are free because Ugandans do not want to engage in anal sex. We do not care.”
Will New Jersey enact gay marriage legislation before New York? Perhaps, with the Garden State set to vote on a proposed law next Thursday in the state Senate. New Jersey currently has a civil union law, but according to Democratic Senator Ray Lesnick, there is enough support to pass a same sex marriage law before the end of the year. “On Thursday the full Senate is going to vote on marriage equality,” Lesnick said, “And God be will, we’ll have 21 votes.”
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