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Amie Newman at RH Reality Check points us to NPR's recent interview with David Bahati, the Ugandan parliamentarian and author of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Read Amie's full commentary here. You can also listen to the NPR interview here.
The whole thing is really shocking, and we're outraged that Bahati's comments in the interview haven't been widely covered, scrutinized, and condemned yet by our public officials and the mainstream media. Amie underlines the scariest and most telling part of the NPR story:
Sharlet [NPR's interviewer] accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that he wanted "to kill every last gay person."Want to help us stop David Bahati? Sign our StandForUganda petition.
"It was a very chilling moment, because I'm sitting there with this man who's talking about his plans for genocide, and has demonstrated over the period of my relationship with him that he's not some back bender — he's a real rising star in the movement," Sharlet says. "This was something that I hadn't understood before I went to Uganda, that this was a guy with real potential and real sway and increasingly a following in Uganda."
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The LGBTQ people of Uganda are not my neighbors, but they are my fellow humans, and I am not okay with living in a world that would kill them (or let them be killed) for who they are.
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