{"id":347,"date":"2016-01-05T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?p=347"},"modified":"2016-12-21T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:05:17","slug":"rainbow-herring-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-as-a-case-study-of-human-rights-violations-and-cover-ups-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/past-issues\/rainbow-herring-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-as-a-case-study-of-human-rights-violations-and-cover-ups-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Herring: the Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a Case Study of Human Rights Violations and Cover-Ups in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a survey conducted in 2013 by Pew Research, it was found that 96% of Ugandans were against homosexuality and other non-traditional sexualities, making it one of the most anti-homosexual countries in the world. Findings from their 2007 report were similar, with an overall change of +1 in favor of homosexuality over five years (Pew Research, 2013). Several arguments are made for this viewpoint, the strongest being the religious argument; according to Leviticus and several sections of the New Testament, homosexuality is not allowed, and there are similar laws in the Qur\u2019an.1 Other arguments made include biological and cultural.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Eliana Zimet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2016\/01\/Eliana.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full publication.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a survey conducted in 2013 by Pew Research, it was found that 96% of Ugandans were against homosexuality and other non-traditional sexualities, making it one of the most anti-homosexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}