Wow, I’m not entirely sure how this didn’t cross my path earlier, and I’m a little surprised at how quiet it has been on this topic, but I just saw this post on Blag Hag about Ghana’s Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo’s recent order to immediately arrest all homosexuals. And of course, it’s a Jesus thing.
The law vioation they are apparantly being arrested for is called Unnatural Canal Knowledge. You know, because being gay doesn’t ever happen in nature.
One of the major groups involved in the events that led up to this decree is the Christian Council of Ghana, who were allegedly urging Ghanaians “not to vote for any politician who belies in the rights of homosexuals”, which conflicts with their recent project in partnership with the World Association for Christian Communication. That’s some super good destigmatizing there, folks.
It seems that some atheists have taken their love of the FSM one step too far.
Jim’s post on the
Okay, admittedly, that’s kind of a misnomer. There isn’t one. At least not one that presently shows any real reason to believe it would work. In order to truly end the threat of AIDS as a widespread pandemic both in Africa and the rest of the world, we need to do three things:
See that woman to the left of these words? That’s Dr. Hawa Abdi. She’s a remarkable woman who lives in Somalia, is a practicing gynecologist, and runs a hospital she started with a single room that now has 400 beds full of people whose sickness and suffering are made better by her efforts. By all accounts, she’s a truly great and inspiring woman.