UPDATE: Crime to be gay

[DrLeftover]

Uganda's parliament has passed a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts to include life imprisonment in some cases.

The anti-homosexuality bill also makes it a crime punishable by a prison sentence not to report gay people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25463942

I guess they don't have A&E's sensibilities in Uganda

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Crime to be gay

Again, I say it.

"This is Sharia. Get used to it."

Fairfax county, Virginia recently had a nice little dose of it when the Saudi school opened.

http://www.saudiacademy.net/

You may find the student handbook of interest, including the separation of the sexes, and the note about prayer time.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

RE: Crime to be gay

We have stupid and shitty laws too...

Nothing like this though:

the punishment for homosexual acts to include life imprisonment in some cases.
...it's a crime punishable by a prison sentence not to report gay people.

That is just plain nonsense.

 

[Evil Eye]

RE: Crime to be gay

Well, at least they're not killing them.

You may find the student handbook of interest, including the separation of the sexes, and the note about prayer time.

It's a little totalitarian, but not much more so than some British schools.

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Crime to be gay

Well, at least they're not killing them.

You may find the student handbook of interest, including the separation of the sexes, and the note about prayer time.

It's a little totalitarian, but not much more so than some British schools.

So your school kids are forced to pray?

 

[Sinon]

RE: Crime to be gay

Well, at least they're not killing them.

You may find the student handbook of interest, including the separation of the sexes, and the note about prayer time.

It's a little totalitarian, but not much more so than some British schools.

So your school kids are forced to pray?

Yes. I went to a Christian school. Prayer was a daily occurrence.

 

[Evil Eye]

RE: Crime to be gay

So your school kids are forced to pray?

How could they be? The most they can do is tell you to shut up while others pray.

 

[LegendHidden]

RE: Crime to be gay

Even though I'm against homosexuality they shouldn't be punished for it. Like it's their decision.

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Crime to be gay

Even though I'm against homosexuality they shouldn't be punished for it. Like it's their decision.

Even if it is the law of the land and they know that up front?

So you think it is otherwise a 'victimless crime'?

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Crime to be gay

11 February 2014

Four footballers from Iran's national women's team have been banned from playing - because they are men.

The quartet are among a several top 'female' players in the Islamic Republic found to be men awaiting sex-change operations.

Despite the Islamic country's ban on homosexuality and sex before marriage, the players have been told they will be allowed back after surgery.

All female footballers are now being gender-tested before they can sign for a club. Random checks are also being carried out at training grounds.

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Women_footballers_banned_for_being_men

 

[gaze-universe]

RE: Crime to be gay

11 February 2014

Four footballers from Iran's national women's team have been banned from playing - because they are men.

The quartet are among a several top 'female' players in the Islamic Republic found to be men awaiting sex-change operations.

Despite the Islamic country's ban on homosexuality and sex before marriage, the players have been told they will be allowed back after surgery.

All female footballers are now being gender-tested before they can sign for a club. Random checks are also being carried out at training grounds.

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Women_footballers_banned_for_being_men

Well, homosexuality and sex before marriage have nothing to do with being a trangendered/transexual woman unless, the women were lesbians and having sex before marriage.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

RE: Crime to be gay

Don't like the idea of gays. But it's a human right if a person decides to practice there choice of sexuality with another willing partner. All The people should rise up with arms if necessary. Because I can guarantee you a right you hold dear is next.

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Crime to be gay

Uganda set to ignore Mr. Obama's advice. No word in this story on whether or not the US would withdraw military forces from the country sent in to support the regime against insurgents.

16 Feb

RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday that enacting an anti-gay law would complicate U.S. relations with Uganda and would be a "step backward for all Ugandans."

Obama, on a weekend golf holiday in Southern California, issued a statement denouncing Museveni's plans to sign a law that would impose harsh sentences for those convicted of homosexual acts.

His national security adviser, Susan Rice, said via Twitter that she had spoken by phone to Museveni on Saturday night to protest after he told members of his party that he would sign the law.

"As we have conveyed to President Museveni, enacting this legislation will complicate our valued relationship with Uganda," Obama said.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-warns-uganda-over-anti-gay-law-192607349.html

 

[DrLeftover]

RE: Crime to be gay

India's gay community scrambling after court decision recriminalises homosexuality
23 February 2014

In December, the country’s highest court overturned the lower court’s ruling, once again making gay sex a crime punishable by up to ten years in jail and putting tens of millions of Indians at risk of prosecution or harassment. Last month, that court – which had said gay people in India were just a “minuscule minority” – upheld its decision against an appeal and said it was up to the government to change the law.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indias-gay-community-scrambling-after-court-decision-recriminalises-homosexuality-9146244.html

 

[DrLeftover]

10 countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed a law that imposes a 14-year prison sentence for homosexual acts - and life sentences for those found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality." A measure imposing the death penalty was removed from an earlier version of the bill.

Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda, as it is in 37 other African countries. Though the death penalty was removed from Uganda's law, it's a potential punishment elsewhere, including parts of Nigeria, Mauritania and Sudan.

(Last month, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a measure similar to Uganda's into law; a few weeks later, a mob pulled 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, screaming about cleansing their neighborhood of gay people.)

Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punishable by death:

http://www.commercial-news.com/community-news-network/x1783687714/10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punishable-by-death

 

[DrLeftover]

Mar 06, 2014
Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.

The four were among dozens caught in a wave of arrests after Nigeria strengthened its criminal penalties for homosexuality with the new Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in January.

The men could face further violence in prison if human rights organizations do not come up with an additional fine of 20,000 naira ($120) each meted out Thursday by a judge in Bauchi city, Dorothy Aken'Ova, convenor of the Coalition for the Defense of Sexual Rights Network, told The Associated Press. The four were sentenced to 15 strokes plus a year's imprisonment if they cannot pay the fine.

Aken'Ova said the men, aged between 20 and 22, should not have been convicted because their confessions were forced by law agents who beat them.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/24901867/4-accused-gays-whipped-in-north-nigerian-court#ixzz2vD2TuMM7

 

[DrLeftover]

7 March 2014

A Malaysian court has sentenced opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to five years in jail after overturning his acquittal on sodomy charges.

Mr Anwar led the opposition to its strongest ever performance in the May 2013 general elections.

While homosexual acts are illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia, very few people are ever prosecuted.

Mr Anwar has always maintained the charges were part of a political smear campaign.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26479642

 

[DrLeftover]

"He [the judge] said sodomy is punishable with death and requires the testimony of four witnesses to the act and in the case of the two men, no-one saw them committing sodomy," Mr Mohammed is quoted as saying.

The men were arrested after residents raided a home in Bauchi, finding one of them wearing shorts while the other was fully clothed, Reuters reports.

Five people have been convicted of homosexual offences by Bauchi's Islamic courts since January.

They were sentenced to 20 lashes each.

The cases of five other suspects are pending, including that of a Christian who is expected to be tried in a secular court.

Most states in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria have adopted Islamic law, known as Sharia, since the end of military rule in 1999.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26838642

 

[DrLeftover]

5 April

Kampala (AFP) - Uganda police raided a US-funded HIV project for "training youths in homosexuality", the government said, weeks after the president signed a widely criticised anti-homosexuality law.

The Walter Reed Project, which provides treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS, said it had suspended its operations after one of its staff was briefly detained in the raid on Thursday.

It appeared to be the first such move since Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in February signed a bill that calls for "repeat homosexuals" to be jailed for life and requires people to report gays.

http://news.yahoo.com/uganda-police-raid-hiv-project-homosexuality-training-004738120.html;_ylt=AwrBEiFIXz9ThBcATB_QtDMD

 

[DrLeftover]

8 April

Egypt jails four men for gay acts

A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts.

The men were accused of attending or arranging "deviant" sex parties, and dressing in women's clothes and wearing make-up.

Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals.

One of the men was jailed for three years with hard labour by the court in Cairo.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26934432