UK Archbishop Rowan Williams Dont Demonise gays!
The murder of Ugandan activist David Kato wasn't just a chance for political leaders to speak out against legalized and institutional persecution, as Barack Obama did. Reports Queerty. It's also an opportunity for another class of the globe's figureheads to take a stand. Like the religious ones. And Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has done exactly that.
"You cannot go around sharing information about the identity of proposed lesbian and gay persons and urging people to ostracise them or worse 'Hang Them' as in the headlines of one of the Ugandan newspapers," Williams told reporters in Dublin yesterday. "You cannot do that without taking responsibility for the consequences. Language which demonises gays and lesbians has consequences."
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