The Anti Homosexuality Act Of Uganda

“Gays are going to rot in hell! Gays need to all die.” In the past, these were all common teaching taught by the religious leaders of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The people learned that homosexuality was a violation of God’s will and relentlessly killed all the sinners. Gays, repeatedly persecuted in the past, and are still not accepted in religious communities today. They still face discrimination and have trouble fitting in and receiving equal treatment their religious and neighborly communities.

On March 23, North Carolina passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, commonly referred to as HB2. The new legislation mandates that students in North Carolina state schools use the bathroom that corresponds with the sex listed on their birth certificate. Although North Carolina is currently making headlines, it is not the only state has passed anti-LGBT legislation. In fact, there have been almost 200 anti-LGBT bills introduced in other states since January. Opponents criticize HB2 for excluding gay and transgender people from privacy and legal protections. As a result, North Carolina has received major backlash across the board from citizens of the state, officials of other states, and large corporations such as PayPal.

It soon became clear that leaving his secure marketing position and prospects to move to a much less secure future working with us seemed more attractive. Fadi wanted to be at the center of where he was seeing God’s presence: in Uganda and among the poor and marginalized. However, like his mom, Fadi’s behaviour seemed odd to many around him. Over the years we have spoken at length about his family and how he would like them to have the same connection with God he has experienced. He has invited his mom to take part in our trips, but nothing has seemed to work – yet! Whether it is his family or his friends, Fadi says, "I don’t ever judge people. I just invite them to live a better story; a story where God is more noticeable." He remembers well his younger self and the things that acted as barriers on his journey towards faith.

Homosexuality has always been a controversial topic of ethical discussion. The morality of the subject depends completely upon a person’s views. A person is often swayed one way or another and religion often plays a very large role on the subject. There are those who believe in the divine command theory and those who believe in the natural law theory. In order to properly understand either theory it is important to know the meaning behind each.

When analyzing sexuality forms with various position in political spectrum, what comes to mind is Homophobia, the LGBT and Sodomy laws. Sexual orientation is an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or affectional attraction to another person.. People are fight for what they believe in and one way to fight is by going to the government and changing the laws. When politics decides what is right and wrong in people personal lives, people get offended by and fight for what they believe in, it is true that they love in a different way, but who has the right to tell them that two men or two women can be in love and have a family. God tell us not to judge and he will be the only one to judge when that day comes.

After the controversy of how Michael Sam’s football carrier will be affected because he came out about being gay, Dale Hansen responded with a commentary expressing, “You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by her roots? You are the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. You kill people while driving drunk? That guy is welcome. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away? You lie to police trying to cover up a murder? We are comfortable with that. You love another man? Well, now you have gone too far!” This quote assists in comprehending the view people have of gay people. The thought of having a gay person on a football team bothers people more than the thought of having an abusive man or murderer. People talk about gay marriage as if it is such an issue. The prejudice many have toward gay people is truly inhumane, and more states should allow them to be together.

“The Charter of the United Nations encourages ‘respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction, while the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states ‘Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind,” (Gary, J, 2012). Even with the guidance provided, many members of the UN still had laws that criminalized homosexuality and some that had laws that could warrant the death penalty for being a part of the LGBT community.

The gay rights movement started to advocate homosexual men and women's rights and give them equality as well. This movement has been going on for such a long time till this current year it's become a big topic to society.

“The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle… It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom” (Urvashi Vaid). Many people were not supportive of the minority of people coming out to the world and becoming a part of the LGBTQ+ community. The actions of the many who did not accept the idea of being gay, lesbian or transgender, would interfere with their confidence and freedom of being who they want to be. The idea of gay rights was not socially accepted since it had differed from the social norm of a male and female sexually attracted to one another. However, there would be a ‘safe haven’ in most cities for the LGBTQ+ community to thrive and reveal themselves towards the people that truly accepted them for who they are. Although there were very few ‘safe havens’ around, these places would be tormented by the police and many of the people in them would become oppressed since they wanted to be in a place of acceptance. From June 28, 1969 through July 1, 1969, the gay community faced massive oppression from police raids in Greenwich Village, NYC at Stonewall Inn, which caused them to start a riot which ignited a major conflict for the sake of their own safety and freedom. This riot allowed them to show their oppressors that they are human as well and are able to fight back for themselves and for the future generations ahead of them. Due to the lack of a formal compromise

   Of all topics most popular in today's media, issues concerning homosexuals and homosexuality in general top the list. Homosexuality is generally defined as a sexual relationship between partners of the same sex. Debate concerning its causes and consequences has been going on for many centuries and almost in every period in human history. However, never before in human history has it been granted such wide scale acceptance in western society as it has now. The question that I seek to answer in this paper is whether such wide scale acceptance should in fact be granted to homosexual behavior? Is such behavior rational, scientifically functional or is it actually detrimental to the high level of

Ever since the Anti-Homosexuality Bill was on the agenda, Ugandan LGBT have been “living in constant fear of discovery and prosecution” (“Persecuted” 4). A man named David Kato was a gay living in Uganda. He was beaten with a hammer and died because he was gay. He was also involved in a Rolling Stones Magazine article. There was a picture of Kato and two other gay man with a banner on top that said, “Hang Them,” which was use as a statement to hang ALL the gays of Uganda. David Kato believed there were two different ways to react to being gay. One way was to be as secretive about it as possible. Or the other way was to be not ashamed of it. Kato was proud to be gay even though it was risky, especially in the country of Uganda with all the new Anti-Homosexuality Bills. Kato “televised a press conference to start the push for gay rights in his own country” (“Gay” 96). After Kato had tried to push for gay rights he had been suffered beatings by police and people of Uganda and has been arrested at least three times. Some Christian pastors that toured around Uganda’s towns said Kato “was a dog, a pig, possessed by the devils” (“Gay” 96). At

At first I will talk about the way the government has essentially denounced all rights and equality of people who practice same-sex relations in Kenya. Then I will move to address when and how same-sex activity first began in Kenya

Recent estimates suggest that between 2.0 and 3.7 million children are being raised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults in the United States, according to the 2013 National Health Interview Survey and Gallup Poll data (Gates, 2014). The battle of equal right in many aspects for gay and lesbian couples have been going on for years, and although significant progress has been made, there are many aspects within their relationships that are not yet equal to heterosexual couples in similar situations. Gay and lesbian couples have to deal with daily discrimination within issues such as marriage, legal issues, medical issues, and mamy forms for homophobia. Adoption has been a big question and fight for gay and lesbian couples for many years, one that is still being found today. Questions of whether or not a gay or lesbian couple can “properly” raise a healthy child, if the child’s psychological development would be compromised, any many other arguments have been proposed in disapproval of adoption for these couples. Adoption is a tedious process for a heterosexual married couple and the challenges and hoops needed to be jumped through to finalize the process can be even more difficult for homosexual couples and single gay or lesbian individuals.

This investigation examination fits in with a course of action of studies on human rights in Iran made by the Human Rights in Iran Unit. This study considers the Islamic Republic of Iran 's consistence with and its commitments under universal human rights law concerning sexual orientation character and sexual introduction. The applicable bargains to which Iran is a State gathering are the International Covenant on Civil and Political and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The state and federal laws for Gay's and Lesbian are unfair and discriminatory. In today’s ever so changing world it’s hard to keep up with laws. Most of the laws are printed on a fine line, but the rights for homosexuals are blurred. With the topic being hot in the media it is hard to get the correct story. Two of the most important rights that get blurred are marriage and same sex adoption. Same sex marriage is only legal in one state in the US, Massachusetts. Other than Massachusetts only four other countries allow same sex marriage. The Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and Spain.