This made me weep when I saw it on queer.de. Three teenagers convicted of homosexual acts are on death row in Iran.
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Nemat Safavi, 21 years old, has been sentenced to death by the juvenile court in Ardebil, a city northwest Iran.
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"Homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law-based country it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that.
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Kenya is launching a nationwide survey to determine the number of gay men in the country in their latest effort to combat the spread of HIV.
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Now that President Obama has signed lgbt-inclusive hate crimes legislation, every wannabe religious right activist with access to a computer and someone dumb enough to fund them is coming out of the woodwork looking to profit on the supposed coming persecution of Christians by the lgbt community.
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You have to read this to believe it. Gary Cass heads up the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, so you can imagine his response to the passage and signing of the hate crimes bill into law.
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Ken Cuccinelli (R) running for Attorney General in Virginia has declined to promise whether he would uphold the states nondiscrimination policy enforced by his republican predecessor.
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Virginia attorney general hopeful Ken Cuccinelli said that "homosexual acts are wrong."
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"In other nations, like Canada, where hate crime laws have been enacted, it is Christians, specifically conservative Christians who hold to the historic Christian faith and it's values, that become the object of institutionalized, governmental hate.
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"Deprivational Homosexuality" can occur when heterosexuals engage in homosexual acts because partners of the opposite sex are unavailable, ie: prison, male or female only schools, and the military.
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Human rights groups have blasted Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality.
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Already “subject to persecution and arbitrary arrest in Uganda,” gays could see their freedoms even further curtailed if a new bill becomes law.
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Albert L. Gordon dies at 94; attorney fought for gay rights
Albert L. Gordon, an attorney who helped advance gay rights in the 1970s and ’80s by challenging discriminatory practices and laws, including a successful effort to decriminalize consensual homosexual acts, died Aug.
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Albert L. Gordon, an attorney who helped advance gay rights in the 1970s and '80s by challenging discriminatory practices and laws, including a successful effort to decriminalize consensual homosexual acts, died Aug.
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From the LA Times:
Albert L. Gordon, an attorney who helped advance gay rights in the 1970s and ’80s by challenging discriminatory practices and laws, including a successful effort to decriminalize consensual homosexual acts, died Aug.
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A heterosexual whose twin sons were gay, he battled bigotry in law enforcement and successfully argued for the revocation of laws against consensual homosexual acts.
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Two months ago, the Indian High Court issued a landmark ruling that rolled back British colonial-era laws against homosexuality.
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The Indian government could give its official response to a court ruling that decriminalised homosexual acts as early as next week.
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Two Senegalese teens are to stand trial this week on charges of committing homosexual acts, the Voice of America reports.
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Yes indeed, you heard us correctly. India has been making small steps towards becoming an entity fighting anti-discrimination by first decriminalising homosexual acts in the nation's capital.
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