CASW condemns any move that perpetuates and advances positions on homosexuality that run contrary to the principles and values of the social work profession and international conventions and treaties. Specifically, social workers do not tolerate discrimination based on age, abilities, ethnic background, gender, language, marital status, national ancestry, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation or socio-economic status.

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The Anti-Homosexuality Bill provides for severe punishment, inclusive imprisonment, for those engaging in same sex relations, as well as for members of the public who fail to report such activities to the authorities. The original draft also provides for the death penalty and life imprisonment. The Bill has already gone through the first reading in Parliament and is now before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. "We are very concerned that it could become law within a few weeks or months", said Adrian Jjuuko, Coordinator of Uganda's Civil Society Coalition on H Read More...

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Response to Ugandan Pastor

Recently, Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa made statements concerning public policy regarding homosexuals in that nation. Philadelphia Biblical University (PBU) categorically condemns any position that calls for violence against human beings created in the image and likeness of God, or violent solutions to socially controversial issues. While PBU holds to a biblically defined position regarding human sexuality, to call for such action clearly violates the teaching of the Bible, and the principles and practices taught at PBU. Ssempa did ea Read More...

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We, the Bishops of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, meeting at Thokoza Conference Centre, Swaziland, from 8 to 12 February 2010, are disturbed by the debate among Ugandan law-makers of a draft bill that seek to criminalize homosexuality and to prosecute gay people. It even proposes imposing the death penalty, which we regard as a breach of God's commandment,You shall not murder, given in Exodus 20:13. We also deplore the statement, attributed to our fellow Bishop, describing those who are opposed to this legislation as "lovers of evil". Though there are a breadth of Read More...

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Hello fellow Human rights activists, distinguished guests and all Ugandans. I am proud to stand before you as a lesbian today. With hearts full of love and the abiding faith in justice, we have come to this place to speak to Uganda.

We have come to speak the truth of our lives and silence the liars. We have come to challenge the cowardly anti gay campaigners and state officials to end their paralysis and exercise moral leadership. We have come to defend our honor and win our equality. But most of all we have come in peace and with courage to say, "Uganda, thi Read More...

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Calling for accountability doesn't start or stop at naming offenders. Our goal is to encourage-even demand - that governments must also take responsibility by putting human rights into law and embedding them in government institutions; by building strong, independent courts and competent and disciplined police and law enforcement. And once rights are established, governments should be expected to resist the temptation to restrict freedom of expression when criticism arises, and be vigilant in preventing law from becoming an instrument of oppression, as bills like the one un Read More...

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As an American pastor, it is not my role to interfere with the politics of other nations, but it IS my role to speak out on moral issues. It is my role to shepherd other pastors who look to me for guidance, and it is my role to correct lies, errors and false reports when others associate my name with a law that I had nothing to do with, completely oppose and vigorously condemn. I am referring to the pending law under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament, known as the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

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On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) refused to condemn the Anti-Homosexuality Bill being considered by the Ugandan parliament, saying that he was too busy to comment on it, and despite weeks of international and national news attention (and pressure from the group One Iowa), he didn't know anything about it. His silencequickly criticized, especially since other busy lawmakers have spoken out forcefully about it. But on Friday, Grassley finally came out with a statement, calling the Ugandan bill "un-Christian and unjust":

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'U.S. Christian Leaders' Statement on "Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009"

Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a betrayal of Jesus' commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. As followers of the teachings of Christ, we must express profound dismay at a bill currently before the Parliament in Uganda. The "Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009" would enforce lifetime prison sentences and in some cases the death penalty for homosexual behavior, as well as punish citizens for not reporting their gay and lesbian Read More...

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Mr. Moderator,

Thank you for convening this panel discussion and for providing the opportunity to hear some very serious concerns raised this afternoon. My comments are more in the form of a statement rather than a question. As stated during the debate of the General Assembly last year, the Holy See continues to oppose all grave violations of human rights against homosexual persons, such as the use of the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

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"This is a moment of truth for the Commonwealth. The anti-homosexuality Private Member's Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative process, puts the Commonwealth's legitimacy and integrity to the test.

In a fashion unmistakable in both clarity and intent, the putative legislation declares war on homosexuality. There are deeply offensive sodomy laws and homophobic statutes on the books of many other Commonwealth countries, particularly here in the Caribbean. But nothing is as stark, punitive and redolent o Read More...

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"I do not see how two people who are in a loving relationship and harming no one pose a threat to the family simply because they happen to be of the same sex.

The argument that homosexuality is a threat to the continuity of humankind and that it will lead to the extinction of human beings in the world simply does not hold water because there are too many heterosexuals in the world for that to become a reality. How many of you in this room would "convert" to homosexuality any time soon?... So, just as the priests, nuns and monks who are sworn to a life of celiba Read More...

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"Dear Hon Speaker of The Parliament of Uganda , Hon Deputy Speaker, Hon David Bahati, other Members of Parliament & Fellow Citizens.Republic of Uganda.

The Best Medicine Against Homo-, Hetero-, Bi-, Tri-and Non-Sexuality in Uganda is Love, Care, & Support -Not Punitive and Death Causing Laws.

No one really knows how many homosexuals (attracted sexually to same gender as theirs) , tri-sexuals (attracted to both genders and to themselves), bi-sexuals( attracted to both genders), hetero-sexuals (attracted to females if they are males or to males if th Read More...

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"We write to raise serious concerns about the "Anti-Homosexual Bill" introduced in Uganda's parliament earlier this month. This egregious bill represents one of the most extreme anti-equality measures ever proposed in any country and would create a legal pretext for depriving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans of their liberty, and even their lives.

Particularly given the United States' substantial contribution to Uganda through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), we believe swift action is necessary to ensure Ugandan Read More...

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The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, has taken note of the introduction into the UgandanParliament of the "Anti Homosexuality Bill, 2009". We are of the very strong view that this Bill should notbe adopted. It not only violates the Ugandan Constitution and Uganda's international human rightsobligations, but also stifles debate, undermines civil society and demeans the common citizenship of allUgandans.

"...We are of the very strong view that this Bill should not be adopted"

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Proposed Provisions Illegal, Ominous, and Unnecessary.

(Kampala) - The draft "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" introduced on October 14, 2009 in Uganda's parliament would violate human rights and should be withdrawn immediately, a group of 17 local and international human rights organizations said today.

"This bill is a blow to the progress of democracy in Uganda," said David Kato of Sexual Minorities Uganda.

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".. At a stage where the law is being made, I will personally pray that the law should allow certain people to apply and become hangmen especially where death sentence has been confered so that I also apply to go and execute some of these people in Luzira"

Hon Odonga Otto - MP Aruu County

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Pr. Stephen Langa in his presentation described what he calls the "gay agenda": a strategy of gay activists to create a utopia with no restriction of sexual practices. It is an attempt "to overthrow the moral base of society based on marriage and family.. ..they want to overthrow that and bring about a new order based on sexual anarchy."

He cited a British and a Russian social scientist to say that societies go down whenever their is amoral behaviour, which he believes homosexuality is. He accused the 'gay agenda' to shift the focus from a moral behaviour to so Read More...

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