Ugandan courtroom states no to newspaper outing gays

Being homosexual in Uganda has officially been illegal for a while, but leave it to a rabid, radical Christian fundamentalist with an ax to grind – Scott Lively of Abiding Truth Ministries – to bring the Ugandan pot to a boil. After Lively stirred the pot, Uganda is taking an additional take a look at the penalty by law. Life in jail or death for being gay in Uganda may become the lawful prescription. This came just a few months after Lively’s talk in Uganda on "the gay agenda," reports Vanguard.

Courts say that outing gays within the press cannot happen

The Ugandan court said that it is Rolling Stone paper, with no connections to the American Rolling Stone paper, BBC News reports, cannot out gays in it. The publication had been working on publishing names and photos of the homosexuals. These were just says though. Sexual Minorities Uganda is the gay rights group that asked for this to cease since public started attacking those outed by Rolling Stone Uganda. One article had the title "Hang them" in it. The judge on the case didn't like the Rolling Stone's outing practices were happening. He wanted it to stop. The title of the Uganda magazine is one thing the American Rolling Stone magazine does not appreciate. This is why the publisher is attempting to get the one in Uganda to have a name change.

Lively told Alan Colmes he does not support killing gays

Scott Lively was on the Alan Colmes radio show excerpted on Queerty where he said that Uganda is "a Christian country" and also said he doesn't approve of killing or imprisoning gays. Lively has publicly equated homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality, a narrow-minded, fundamentalist view that seems to do his religious faith a disservice. Things such as pedophilia being "mortal sins" are still being discussed though. Apparently the Hebrews only got hot under the collar about it if the perpetrator failed to put a ring on it, metaphorically speaking.

Articles cited

BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11666789

Queerty

queerty.com/scott-lively-doesnt-want-ugandas-gays-to-be-executed-just-steered-toward-therapy-20100105/

Scott Lively has an agenda to pick with gays

youtube.com/watch?v=fU0dwjsLCUU

KXNET

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