{"id":16551,"date":"2009-12-07T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_mark_reynolds-an_odious_law_uganda_and_homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:20:13","slug":"john_mark_reynolds-an_odious_law_uganda_and_homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16551","title":{"rendered":"John Mark Reynolds&#8211;An Odious Law: Uganda and Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda may pass a law that could lead to the death penalty for homosexual behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law is odious.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the legacy of colonialism, Western people should be sensitive about interfering in sub-Saharan African politics and modest in making moral pronouncements regarding Africa, but this law deserves universal condemnation. Uganda experienced many evils under colonialism, including the loss of basic liberties.<\/p>\n<p>Experiencing evil does not give a free pass to do evil and this bill is wicked.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a close call.<\/p>\n<p>No good can come of this bill and great harm will be done if it is passed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2009\/12\/an-odious-law-uganda-and-homosexuality\">This well expresses my basic sentiments on this matter.  Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda may pass a law that could lead to the death penalty for homosexual behavior. The proposed law is odious. Due to the legacy of colonialism, Western people should be sensitive about interfering in sub-Saharan African politics and modest in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16551\">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":[36,39,50,202,74,396,114,108,112,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16551","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-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","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=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}