{"id":16428,"date":"2009-12-01T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/house_of_deputies_president_condemns_proposed_uganda_legislation\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:00:03","slug":"house_of_deputies_president_condemns_proposed_uganda_legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16428","title":{"rendered":"House of Deputies president condemns proposed Uganda legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pending Ugandan legislation that would imprison for life or execute people who violate that country&#8217;s anti-homosexuality laws would be a &#8220;terrible violation of the human rights of an already persecuted minority,&#8221; Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson has said.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson was responding to a Nov. 16 request that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Archbishop Henri Orombi of Uganda and she speak out against the legislation. Anderson is the first to issue a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexuality in Uganda currently carries a penalty of up to 14 years imprisonment. If passed, the bill would extend prison sentences for homosexuals up to and including life imprisonment and introduce the death penalty for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality,&#8221; which includes assault against people under the age of 18 and those with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/79901_117435_ENG_HTM.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pending Ugandan legislation that would imprison for life or execute people who violate that country&#8217;s anti-homosexuality laws would be a &#8220;terrible violation of the human rights of an already persecuted minority,&#8221; Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16428\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,202,74,396,66,370,114,108,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-uganda","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-house-of-deputies-president","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}