Day: March 6, 2014

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US preachers lit homophobia fuse
American evangelists were responsible for fostering a turning point in Uganda’s attitudes towards LGBTI people.

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Nigerian court orders public whipping of four men convicted of gay sex
Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human-rights activist said.

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HRC Calls for Explicit Civil Rights Protections in Mississippi Religious Freedom Bill
Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling on the Mississippi legislature to further amend the proposed “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” in order to make real their stated desire that the bill not undercut the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.