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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 02:47 PM
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(Uganda) Govt softens anti-homosexuality Bill
Source: Daily Monitor

A Cabinet committee has recommended changes to Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s anti-gay legislation that preclude the possibility of discarding it, Daily Monitor has learnt.

But the report, which is yet to be discussed by Cabinet, indicts Mr Bahati for not applying the kind of sophistication that would have anticipated the international condemnation that came after the draft legislation was tabled in Parliament last year.

The recommendations mean that the legislation may never be passed in its current shape, if at all, and that it may be long before it is discussed with seriousness.

--snip--

It was, however, suggested that some of the proposals in the draft law, such as the death penalty for some homosexual acts, may be disagreeable.

Read more: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/904074/-/wxxm1x/-/
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 02:53 PM
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1. donning
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 03:16 PM
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2. Where's a face palm when you need one?
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eagertolearn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 03:37 PM
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3. Rachel Maddow did such a good job of exposing this crap!
My daughter wants to be the first Oregon woman senator (she is in her first year of college at Univ. of Oregon majoring in political science) and I told her don't be a Senator be a Rachel!
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 12:19 AM
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4. I forgot to credit blogger Alvin McEwen for posting this
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harry_pothead Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 12:48 AM
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5. So they'll get a kinder gentler gaybashing.
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