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This morning, Stephen Tashobya, the chair of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee of the Ugandan Parliament told me that the prospects for the Anti-Homosexuality Bill are still not certain. He denied saying that public hearings were planned, adding “what we said was we have that bill [the Anti-Homosexuality Bill] together…
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UPDATE: Please read this update in addition to this post. ……………………. According to the UG Pulse, the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee chair Stephen Tashobya told media today that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be the subject of public hearings and debated this session. This is consistent with most of what…
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Since October, 2009, there have been a number of flawed articles about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, but none more flawed than the one currently up on the website of Christianity Today, by Timothy Shah. I have written here and here to demonstrate just a few of the problems, but I want…
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In this post, I want to unpack a bit more the claims of Timothy Shah made in a Christianity Today op-ed posted yesterday (Go to the first reaction here). Overall, I think it was a mistake for Christianity Today to publish an article making so many factual claims without sourcing…
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In a web only piece on Christianity Today, Timothy Shah wants readers to believe that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is “a legislative stunt” which has generated conspiracy theories about maltreatment of gays in Uganda. He writes: Uganda has attracted human rights activism because of a single legislative stunt by a single…
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Preachers gonna preach. Greg Laurie, who is probably a really nice guy, told his congregation that the 2nd coming is coming sooner than later. He thinks so due to… …the dramatic escalation of global wars and terrorism, the push for unity or globalism, the change in world economics toward a…
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Scott Lively said once that his work in Uganda was like “a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda.” In January, he went nuclear-style to Moldova to oppose an anti-discrimination law. Radio Free Europe has the story: When the Moldovan government submitted a draft antidiscrimination law to parliament last month, conservative Orthodox Christian…
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Last week, the Obama administration focused on bullying prevention in a series of events. All week I intended to write about it and one thing or another got in the way so I was pleased that the Christian Post put up an article on the topic. As I noted in…
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The BBC hosts a debate about whether homosexuality is un-African. Ugandan MP David Bahati and Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana, debate homosexuality with host Zeinab Badawi.
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According to the New Vision: THE Speaker of Parliament, Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi, has summoned MPs to report to the House on March 22. Hellen Kaweesa, the public relations manager of Parliament, said the clerk to Parliament had already notified all the MPs to return and handle unfinished business. Last year,…
