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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law cost the country as much a $1.6 billion in its first year

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Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law cost the country as much a $1.6 billion in its first year

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law cost the country as much a $1.6 billion in its first year - LGBTQ Nation
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The anti-LGBTQ+ law “may alter the trajectory of the country’s economy for years to come,” according to a new report.
  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    WTF, Uganda? Could you maybe be a bit more chill?

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      They’ve been brainwashed by American evangelicals.

      https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/africa-uganda-evangelicals-homophobia-antigay-bill/

      https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/uganda-anti-lgbtq-bill-rcna76630

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        Oh dear. I suppose it would be too much to ask for the evangelicals to be a bit more chill?

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          These evangelicals should maybe die in a fire. They are the root of a severe problem that only leads to this shit. Hateful awful people that have no concept of empathy or shame.

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            Hateful awful people that have no concept of empathy or shame.

            “Well, I can’t see any references to being nice to people in my holy text!!!”

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          I’d just ask them to kill themselves

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        Is this the “gay agenda” I keep hearing about?

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