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Pîïïïïïïlïl news
UGANDA
he nation’s first lady, Janet Museveni,
demonstrated Jan. 12 that she agrees with
her husband’s anti-gay sentiments.
“Do not experiment these new sex fashions
in town, like homosexuality and others,” she
advised. “Please, I warn you youth of Uganda,
that it pays to stay pure sexually, respect your life
and guard it well.”
On Sept. 27, President Yoweri Museveni
called for the arrest of all gays for committing
“a b o m i n a b l e
acts."
“I have told
the CID [Crim
inal Investiga
tions Depart
ment] to look
for homosexu
als, lock them
up and charge them," he said. “Even the Holy
Bible spells it out clearly that God created
Adam and Eve as wife and husband, but not
men to marry fellow men.”
Then, in a Nov. 23 speech to Parliament,
Museveni described how gay people are treated
in the nation’s Ankole region.
“These few individuals were either ignored
or speared and killed by their parents. They
wouldn’t just go and wed another man publicly,”
he said.
Museveni’s homophobia has been de
nounced by the U.S. State Department, which
indicated: “We would view the arrest and
imprisonment of persons based on their sexual
orientation as a serious human rights violation,
regardless of whether such arrests are sanctioned
by Ugandan legislation.”
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UNITED KINGDOM
ay men are better dads than straight men,
JF according to a new study by
Dr. Gill Dunne of the London
School of Economics.
After studying 100 gay
fathers, Dunne concluded
that gay men are more nur
turing, caring, committed,
sensitive and compassion
ate; more likely to main
tain strong ties with kids
after they split with a part
ner; and more likely to he on good terms with
their former partner.
The men who were studied had become
fathers via donor insemination, adoption, foster
ing and previous marriages to women.
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T
he head of the Scottish Episcopal Church,
Bishop Robert Holloway, told the British
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Broadcasting Corp. on Jan. 9 that he supports
church blessings of same-sex couples.
“If we can bless battleships and fox hunts,
why can’t we bless a couple of human beings
who want to be faithful to one another?” Hol
loway said. “Sex is the last hang-up of the
church. We have been operating an ethic which
is no longer appropriate to our time.”
He added: “1 think that gay priests should be
allowed to have stable relationships just like
straight priests. There are a lot of gay priests, of
gay Christians; it’s tough for them to feel mar
ginalized, made into some kind of moral lepers,
and the Church would collapse without them.”
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A
ritain lifted its ban on gays in the military
Jan. 12, implementing a Sept. 27 European
Court of Human Rights ruling that the policy
violated service members’
rights to privacy and family
life.
“Homosexuality will no
longer be a bar to service in
Britain’s armed forces," said Defense
Secretary Geoff Hoon. “The law is
the law. We cannot choose the deci
sions we implement.... There is no
longer a reason to deny homosexuals
the opportunity of a career in the
armed forces.... The status quo is
not an option.”
Like heterosexual service
members, gay service members
will be prohibited from engaging
in behavior while on duty
that undermines the “effi
ciency or operational effec
tiveness" of the armed forces—such as unwant
ed sexual come-ons, offensive displays of affec
tion or taking advantage of a subordinate.
People who have been kicked out of the mil
itary for being gay are being invited to rejoin.
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