Posted on 08/03/2012 2:59:22 PM PDT by markomalley
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday praised activists who opposed a tough draft law in Uganda targeting gays and lesbians, calling them an inspiration for others struggling to secure equal rights around the world.
Clinton presented a coalition of Ugandan rights groups with the State Department's 2011 Human Rights Defender Award, a signal to African and Islamic nations that Washington will not backtrack in its fight against the legal and political persecution of homosexuals.
"It is critical for all Ugandans - the government and citizens alike - to speak out against discrimination, harassment, and intimidation of anyone. That's true no matter where they come from, what they believe, or whom they love," Clinton said.
Clinton said she raised the issue in talks on Friday with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose government has been accused of allowing political and religious leaders to drum up anti-gay feeling in the deeply conservative East African nation.
"You are a model for others and an inspiration for the world," Clinton said to representatives of the group, formed in 2009 to combat draft legislation which proposed the death penalty for anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality".
The bill, which spurred a global outcry, stalled in parliament but has been reintroduced in a watered down form by a member of Museveni's party.
The new version dropped the death sentence, but would still outlaw the "promotion" of gay rights and punish anyone who "funds, sponsors or abets homosexuality".
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Yeah, I’ll bet mo’s are very popular in Uganda.
No-—she’s for reinstating the Uganda Kings who led to the banning of sodomy in the first place-—since they used to have kings who would sodomize all the boys or kill them.
She is against Christian Ethics-—the ones which shaped Western Civ for 2000 years and wants to replace the Ethics with Marxist/Atheism/Satanism/Pantheism-—where pederasty was normal and “good”.
SOMEBODY GRAB THE HOOK, and yank that woman off of the World stage please!
There can be no other explanation for this other than she’s intentionally stoking the flames of militant islam by perpetuating the view of the amoral decadent west.
More evidence of DNCa activity. Democrat National Committee Anti-Christ approved of course...
The intensity and concentration on Huma’s face no doubt comes from the awesome responsibility of being the hidden microphone for the power brokers back in Jeddah and Riyadh.
Just imagine if anyone told the founders of this Nation that the country they created would someday be meddling in the affairs of a tiny African nation over laws that country had regarding practice of homosexuality.
I am sure they would say that we have become the type of immoral, grasping, elitist Empire that they had just overthrown. Probably worse.
See, I told ya...
LOL
Exactly. In some ways a lot worse.
“The new version dropped the death sentence, but would still outlaw the “promotion” of gay rights and punish anyone who “funds, sponsors or abets homosexuality”.”
The Sodomite Activists and the Obama-Clinton machine are even making inroads in Uganda and obstructing the Ugandan people from enforcing moral law and order in their country.
I guess the A/C was on.
In a country ravaged by AIDS, advocating for gay rights makes no sense.
This must be what that little commie fag in Arizona was talking about today when he told the dumbasses in the state run “media” that Chick-fil-A is selling hate and murdering Ugandans. That girly boy was one weird Fluker. I’ve been told this is what happens to you when you do too many recreational drugs.
It makes no sense anywhere, but you are right about Uganda. I was there and AIDS is killing their young.
It makes no sense anywhere, but you are right about Uganda. I was there and AIDS is killing their young.
It makes no sense anywhere, but you are right about Uganda. I was there and AIDS is killing their young.
Hillary can’t support traditional eugenics so she has opted for the long, drawn out version via homosexualism.
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