news.bbc.co.uk - 3/11/2009
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Nigerian gay rights activists have told the country's lawmakers that a new bill to outlaw same sex marriage would lead to widespread human rights abuses. The new law would mean prison sentences for gay people who live together, and anyone who "aids and abets" them. The plea by activists was made ...
digitaljournal.com - 3/17/2009
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This would have a massive impact on the
future of all of Africa and of the West,...
warn Dutch parliamentarians Geert Wilders and Martin Bosma of the Party for Freedom, writing in an editorial in the Dutch religious daily, the Reformatorisch Dagblad. Oil ...
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Oil-rich Nigeria will become Islamic soon, warn Dutch ...
talk2action.org - 3/18/2009
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We have written much about Archbishop Peter (The
Persecutor) Akinola here at Talk to Action. We have...
discussed his role...
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Akinolan Apocalypse Now!
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Nigeria Outlaws Gayness
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... lawmakers that a new bill to outlaw same sex marriage would lead to widespread human rights abuses.
The new law would mean prison sentences for gay people who live together, and anyone who “aids and abets” them.
The plea by activists was made to a public committee of the National Assembly which is discussing the bill.
It is already illegal to have gay sex in Nigeria but the new law would extend police powers to arrest suspects.
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... The BBC reports that during a debate on this unconscionable legislation, Rev. Patrick Alumake told the National Assembly that the top leaders of the Catholic Church in Nigeria supported the measure. ...
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