Chad becomes 37th African state to seek ban on homosexuality
Source: Guardian UK
Chad looks set to become the 37th country in Africa to outlaw homosexuality after government ministers voted to make same-sex relations a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The decision, yet to be ratified by the countrys president, was condemned by human rights groups as another setback in the struggle for gay rights on the continent. Chads penal code is more than half a century old and does not explicitly mention homosexuality.
But section 361 of a draft new code states the punishment for anyone who has sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex is 15 to 20 years in jail and a fine of 50,000-500,000 Central African francs (£60-£600), according to a document seen by Agence France-Presse.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/chad-37th-african-state-seeking-ban-homosexuality
Not Me
(3,398 posts)RKP5637
(67,031 posts)RKP5637
(67,031 posts)How backward!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Until they stop these laws. Something drastic needs to be done.
samsingh
(17,571 posts)riversedge
(69,721 posts)riversedge
(69,721 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)samsingh
(17,571 posts)EX500rider
(10,526 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)I know, that was in poor taste.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Aristus
(66,092 posts)that creepy douchebag you knew in 11th Grade.
Well, this will do it.
Homophobia as attention-getting scheme...
steve2470
(37,457 posts)They should rescind this ASAP.
Raster
(20,996 posts)Scott Douglas Lively is an American author, attorney, social activist and independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election. He is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization located in Temecula, California, and the former state director of the California branch of the American Family Association.
Lively has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007, and is allegedly involved in anti-gay legislation in Uganda.
He is frequently interviewed in broadcast media about his involvement in the ex-gay movement and opposition to LGBT advocacy. According to a January 2011 profile, Lively "has not changed his view that gays are "agents of America's moral decline", but has refocused his approach to fit his flock in Springfield, Massachusetts" and "is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden".
On August 14, 2013, a federal judge ruled that the case against Scott Lively, by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a Uganda-based coalition of LGBT rights and advocacy groups, can move forward against him. This is a first-of-its kind case in which the lawsuit alleges that Lively's actions over the past decade, in collaboration with some Ugandan government officials and Ugandan religious leaders, are responsible for depriving LGBT Ugandans of their fundamental human rights based solely on their identity, which the lawsuits alleges falls under the definition of persecution under international law and is a crime against humanity. This effort resulted in the introduction of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which Lively allegedly helped engineer.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)tell them ebola is God's punishment for outlawing homosexuality.