Bah: Navy reverses itself on gay marriages on military bases
(p.s. I know what they mean by "reverses itself", but it's still a strange-sounding phrase. Anyone else remember The Boy Who Reversed Himself?)
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scarlet_bee: So there's this Anti-Homosexuality bill due to be voted on in Uganda on the 13th, which includes the death penalty for homosexuality.
There's a petition against it here, which has over 1.5million signatures on it so far - they're hoping to get to 2 million. Apparently last time this came up in 2009 it was shelved after international condemnation, as the president of Uganda said it had become a foreign policy issue.
(p.s. I know what they mean by "reverses itself", but it's still a strange-sounding phrase. Anyone else remember The Boy Who Reversed Himself?)
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scarlet_bee: So there's this Anti-Homosexuality bill due to be voted on in Uganda on the 13th, which includes the death penalty for homosexuality.There's a petition against it here, which has over 1.5million signatures on it so far - they're hoping to get to 2 million. Apparently last time this came up in 2009 it was shelved after international condemnation, as the president of Uganda said it had become a foreign policy issue.
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Date: May. 12th, 2011 11:47 pm (UTC)From:Reads more like they're reversing themselves in concern about Congressional reaction. I understand the House Armed Services Committee is busily making sure the President can't reduce our nuclear weapons stockpile, for instance, over DOD objections.