We were years behind in freeing the slaves as well.

Mexican court upholds capital’s gay marriage law
By MARK STEVENSON (AP)

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a fledgling law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who argued that it violated the charter’s guarantees to protect the family.
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I know when the LDS church says they were not involved — other than sending out a letter to Argentinean members asking them to read The Family: A Proclamation to the World once again — they really meant it.

Imagine my surprise to see this headline:

LDS official did have role in Argentina gay-marriage battle
By Peggy Fletcher Stack
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Right is right.

“Sen. Norma Morandini, another member of the president’s party, compared the discrimination closeted gays face to the oppression imposed by Argentina’s dictators decades ago.

”What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance,” she said.”

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The funny thing is, we are sometimes not that far from these irrational fears and attitudes in this country.

Police arrest five ‘gay’ Kenyans

(BBC) – Police in Mtwapa, just north of the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, say they have arrested five men whom they accuse of being homosexuals.

District officer George Matandura said two of the men had been found with wedding rings, attempting to get married, in Kikambala beach resort.

The other three men were handed to the police by members of the public; two of them had reportedly been beaten.
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This story continues into the new year, which does not bode well.

While the three US-based ‘evangelists’ disavow actually advocating the killing of gay people, there seems to have been no concerted effort on their part to undo this evil they have introduced into Uganda.

Is there no end to the to the real evil that man does?

After U.S. Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays
By Jeffrey Gettleman | The New York Times

KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks.

The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.
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