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Ethiopia: Religious Groups Making ‘Progress’ Toward Capital Punishment For Homosexuality
Evangelical groups are spreading anti-gay hate in Ethiopia causing a climate of moral panic and forcing the LGBT community to flee the country.
A death penalty against homosexuality may be introduced soon in Ethiopia, according to anti-gay organizations that ran a recent workshop on the topic.
The workshop, dealt with the social ‘evils’ and ‘disastrous’ effects of homosexuality in Ethiopia, and was led by United for Life Ethiopia, a Western Evangelical organization with local representation.
Government officials, religious leaders, leading heath professionals, charities and members of the public attended the event at the Bethel Teaching Hospital in Addis Ababa, last week.
In the workshop police alleged ‘homosexual family members and neighbors’ have sexually abused 117 boys last year.
Participants agreed that the Western gay motto ‘born this way’ is unacceptable to Ethiopia, stating that not only has homosexuality nothing to do with nature, but the ‘condition’ runs against it.
A representative, from the Ethiopian Inter-Religious Council Against Homosexuality (EICAH) organization, underlined to workshop participants that gayness is not natural and has nothing to do with human rights, but ‘a result of a result of inappropriate upbringing, identity crisis and moral decay.
‘So we have to work hard to teach our children the bible and ethics and also protect our nation from the dirty western imposed culture of homosexuality.’
Sultan Muhe, chair of Bright Children Voluntary Association (BCVA) testified that as a child he was gang-raped, an experience that ‘made him’ gay as well as a sex worker.
Muhe also stated that he was now cured (ex-gay) and now campaigns for others to be ‘healed’, stating: ‘Homosexuality should be discouraged by whatever means and the government should do whatever it takes to stop it.’
At the conclusion of the workshop, the EICAH representative stated that the council is ‘making progress’ in convincing the government to be stricter on homosexuality and introduce the death penalty to punish ‘such acts’.
The ECIAH representative added that prospects for capital punishment being legislated against gays ‘seems promising’.
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Religion is a choice that people expect others to bend over backward to accommodate.
(Source: atheistjack, via ummagumma-)
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Shit Homophobic People Say
A short highlight reel of mainstream conservative bigotry in America over the last 10 years.
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I just laughed so hard that I banged my leg against the table next to me and knocked my Mizrahi hamsa ornament off it. I can’t decide if this is creepy, slightly ironic, or the universe’s way of telling me I’m being a Nazi.
I just think the graphic in the corner of that screen shot would more accurately read, “Fecal Point”.
Oh hey, remember last year when that North Carolina pastor suggested putting all the gays and lesbians behind an electrical fence until they die off? There’s your irony.
(Source: waitingonoblivion)
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Fox's Megyn Kelly wants to know why gay activists are so intolerant, so she asks an expert, the head of the anti-gay hate group the Family Research Council
Seems fair and balanced to me.
Hmmmm … I wonder why gay activists are intolerant of people who want to deny rights to them.
I swear Fox News is bizzaro land.
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"I find it really ironic how people are really panicked about how to explain gay marriage to their children… and these are typically religious people. They don’t seem to have a problem explaining hell or Jesus’ horrific death on a cross. So if you can explain crucifixion to a small child, I think you can probably explain two people loving each other."
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Archbishop: Support marriage equality? No Eucharist for you!
Catholic Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit said on Sunday that Catholics who support gay marriage yet take the sacrament of Communion are contradicting themselves, echoing recent calls from a religious scholar for supporters of gay marriage to withdraw from taking the Eucharist.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Archbishop Vigneron said that Catholics who support gay marriage “deny the revelation Christ entrusted to the church.”
Oh, it’s just another example of the Catholic Church bullying its members into submission to conformity. “Agree with oppression and marginalization or else you’re not allowed to partake in the thing that we taught you an all-powerful god insists you partake in!”
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(Source: deathstarblog, via darwinsminion)
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High ResolutionWell, isn’t that special… But let me tell you why it’s bullshit.
1) It’s because you try so desperately to legally prohibit someone from being able to pursue their happiness as freely as you that you are deemed fearful and/or hateful. Don’t pretend you just passively don’t agree, as if it were their choice of shoes we’re talking about.
2) see 1.
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High ResolutionStarbucks CEO Howard Schultz schooled a shareholder who questioned its pro-marriage equality stance. Check out the thunderous applause the rest of the shareholder meeting gives him —> http://hypr.vc/1al4by
Love this. :)
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High ResolutionGood guy Henry.
Bigotry and self-righteousness are death to democracy.
Holy crap. This is powerful.
(Source: wilwheaton)
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"Conservative moralists don’t want women to have control over their bodies or same-sex couples to marry, but they don’t give a hoot about billionaires taking over our democracy for personal gain or big bankers taking over our economy. Yet these violations of public morality are far more dangerous to our society because they undermine the public trust that’s essential to both our democracy and economy."
Divine Irony
is a rich archive of religious delusions, scientific truths and political implications.
"Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
-George Carlin
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed”.
-Albert Einstein
