The Christian Reich continues to expand its war on LGBT people. In the United States, evangelical and fundamentalist Christians have united to make their anti-gay Manhattan Declaration against women's right to abortion and marriage for gays and lesbians.
The Declaration, released last week and signed by over 150 Christian leaders and social conservatives, identifies abortion, gay marriage, and religious liberty as the three most important issues facing modern Christians, and pleads with both believers and non-believers to stand up against the first two and in defense of the third.
Nathaniel Frank does a great job of deconstructing their hypocritical and irrational defense of "traditional marriage" from the civil unions of gays and lesbians: Christian Leaders Scapegoat Gays on Marriage
The religious war against gay people is an international endeavor. In Uganda a bill is being proposed by the parliament that would call for the execution of gays.
Britain and Canada today led Commonwealth protests against a law proposed by the Ugandan parliament which would introduce the death penalty by hanging for "aggravated homosexuality".
The suggested legislation would apply to sex between gay men or lesbian women in which one person has HIV.
The bill also proposes the introduction of a three-year prison sentence for anyone who knows of the existence of a gay man or lesbian woman and fails to inform authorities in Uganda within 24 hours.
Fury at Uganda Proposal for Gay Executions
Furthermore, the Anti-Homosexuality bill in Uganda is supported by U.S. conservative Christians known as "The Family." According to Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family, the Family has been very active in supporting Uganda's right-wing government and the anti-gay legislation.
Rachel Maddow on Uganda and the Family
Rick Warren Can't "Take Sides" on Gay Executions in Uganda
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I wouldn't count too heavily on Stephen Harper and Gordon Brown's "fury" or protest at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, because the two of them were the biggest advocates of Commonwealth acceptance of Rwanda at this meeting, even though Rwanda has similar anti-gay legislation on the table, which stops short of execution, at imprisonment, and they didn't even discuss it while reviewing Rwanda's application.
After championing Rwanda's application, they're not going to expel Uganda, even if they pass the gay death penalty bill, for many reasons.
Brown and Harper are both just trying to avoid too much domestic heat about this.
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