More than 70 countries make being gay a crime

Horrible.  Unfortunately stats and stories like this serve as fodder for anti-gay marriage activists as evidence how much worse it could be.  I think it’s important to keep in mind that there are lots of things that are *much* worse in other places but we shouldn’t be lowering our standards because of it.

John Bosco Nyombi, who now has leave to remain in the UK, was beaten and bundled on to a plane to Kampala by security staff working for the Home Office in 2008. The Independent on Sunday reported last year that High Court judges ruled his removal had been “manifestly unlawful”, obliging the Home Office to bring him back to Britain. The 39-year-old fled to the UK in 2001, because being gay in Uganda can result in life imprisonment. More than one gay inmate has been killed while serving time in Ugandan prison

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