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Box Turtle Bulletin alerts us that despite recent media reports that Uganda’s “kill gays” bill had been shelved, in fact it will be debated in the national parliament next week. The bill came into being after American evangelicals visited Uganda with claims that foreign homosexuals wanted to pay Uganda’s children to become gay. The controversial Anti Homosexuality bill is one …

The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission has issued a statement on yesterday’s story about the possible execution by stoning of two young men in Iran for having gay sex. At IGLHRC’s request, I pulled my first post on the story while they investigated. Via email: The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has received reports of …

Many of you have noted that I have removed yesterday’s post regarding the pending executions of two young gay men in Iran. Shortly after that post went up, both Andy Towle and I were contacted by Jessica Stern at the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, who was very concerned that fragile communications being made on the men’s behalf …

Uganda’s notorious Pastor Martin Ssempa, who infamously tells national audiences that the preferred sexual practice of gay men is eating human feces, has been charged with attempting to blackmail another pastor. Ssempa is accused of offering to pay another man to say that he had “been sodomized” by Pastor Robert Kayanja. A total of eight anti-gay Christian activists have been …

Last month a coalition of Arabic and African nations succeeded in removing a reference to sexual orientation in a United Nations resolution condemning the unjustified executions of minority groups. Today at the urging of the United States, that reference was restored by a vote of 93-55, with 27 abstentions. Boris Dittrich, director of the gay rights program at Human Rights …

Last month a coalition of African and Arabic nations forced the deletion of “sexual orientation” from a United Nations resolution condemning the “extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions” of certain classes of people. Next week the United States will attempt to have that phrase restored. Speaking at a panel on Human Rights Day, US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said …

Last night Rachel Maddow concluded her interview with Uganda’s David “Kill The Gays” Behati. Maddow also interviews the author of a book about the GOP’s secretive Christianist group, The Family.

Tonight the author of Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” bill, David Behati, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show where Maddow repeatedly called Behati out on his ridiculous claims about wealthy American homosexuals “paying Ugandan schoolchildren to become gay.” Behati’s bill came about after The Family, a powerful GOP-based lobby of anti-gay Christianists, visited Uganda to preach against homosexuality. Watch this.

According to a BBC investigative report to be aired tonight, children at Britain’s Islamic schools are being taught that homosexuals must be put to death. The forty schools are operated under banner of the Saudi Students Clubs of the UK. Via Pink News: Gay sex is punished by execution, the schools allegedly teach. However, children are told that clerics are …

A coalition of Arab and African nations have succeeded in deleting a reference to sexual orientation in a United Nations resolution condemning “extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions.” An amendment calling for the deletion was introduced by Morocco and Mali and passed narrowly by a vote of 79-70. The U.S. delegation voted against the deletion but abstained from the vote on …

A Minnesota-based Christian rock band whose lead singer calls for the execution of homosexuals will appear at this year’s state GOP convention and has ties to the reelection campaign of Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann. Via Change.org: The Minnesota Independent notes that a Christian rock band in Minnesota, which has called for LGBT people to be killed and targeted for …

The following statement was just sent to the Washington Post by the Family Research Council. Inaccurate internet reports have been circulating indicating that the Family Research Council lobbied “against” a congressional resolution condemning a bill proposed in Uganda. The Uganda bill would have provided for the death penalty for something called “aggravated homosexuality.” Unfortunately, those spreading these false rumors deliberately …

The Washington Post’s David Weigel has picked up my post about the Family Research Council lobbying against a congressional condemnation of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Gay City News and blogger Joe My God dug into the lobbying records of the Family Research Council and found that among the “Civil Rights/Civil Liberties” issues that the FRC’s Tom McCluskey and David Christensen …

The Unregistered Baptist Fellowship has issued a press release opposing the repeal of DADT because the Bible calls for the death penalty for homosexuality. A snippet via Christian Newswire: Therefore, because God’s word condemns same sex physical relationships (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; Romans 1:24-32), calling them abomination, and considering them a capitol crime against society and nature worthy of the death …

“The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus, it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white. I feel like God …