{"id":41677,"date":"2013-12-22T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T07:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_ugandan_anti-gay_bill_includes_life_imprisonment_for_certain_acts\/"},"modified":"2013-12-22T07:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T07:57:02","slug":"ap_ugandan_anti-gay_bill_includes_life_imprisonment_for_certain_acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41677","title":{"rendered":"AP: Ugandan anti-gay bill includes life imprisonment for certain acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it sets life imprisonment as the penalty for a homosexual act in which one of the partners is infected with HIV, for sex with minors and the disabled, and for repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults, according to the office of a spokeswoman for Uganda\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also prescribes a seven-year jail term for a person who \u201cconducts a marriage ceremony\u201d\u009d for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed the bill unanimously, with no one voicing an objection.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni must sign the bill within 30 days for it to become law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/ugandan-anti-gay-bill-includes-life-imprisonment-for-certain-acts\/2013\/12\/20\/ce2c6b88-6995-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it sets life imprisonment as the penalty for a homosexual act in which one of the partners is infected with HIV, for sex with minors and the disabled, and for repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults, according to the office<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41677\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,202,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}