As expected, Uganda, in an effort to appease donors, has amended the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, eliminating the proposed death penalty and life imprisonment for gays, that according to Bloomberg News, quoting James Nsaba Buturo, the Ugandan Minister of Ethics and Integrity. However, now the Bill, in addition to proposed punishments for homosexuals will include the promotion of counselling to assist “attract errant people to acceptable sexual orientation,” according to Buturo.
According to the website Talk To Action, The Ugandan arm of the United States based College of Prayer, has played a significant role in organizing and supporting legislator in drafting the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and now the College of Prayer is apparently intent to bring the same climate of anti-gay hate to North America, Canada specifically. Canadian College of Prayer head Reverend David Chotka is quoted as saying “I have three to twelve members of the Canadian Parliament who heard about what God is doing in Uganda and would like to attend the Parliamentary COP in Uganda next year. They are interested in bringing the College of Prayer to the Canadian Parliament.” Talk To Action also continues to connect the actions and influence of Rick Warren and the homosexual cleansing symbolized by the aforementioned Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Late Wednesday news that the gay marriage measure in New Jersey would not be up for a full vote in. the state Senate, that according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. The measure’s two main sponsors, Senator Ray Lesniak, a Democrat from Union, and Senator Loretta Weinberg, a Democrat from Bergen, said that the bill will be introduced in the Assembly Judiciary Committee in preparation for a vote in the lower house. Lesniak said the expectation remains that a vote on the same sex marriage will occur before the end of the lame duck legislative session next month before Governor John Corzine leaves office on January 19th, 2010. Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts, a Democrat from Camden, an advocate of the act, said “at this point, this much is clear – our civil union law has failed to live up to even the most modest of hopes and encourages unequal treatment of same sex couples and their children.”
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