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Gay and proud about it. A member of the gay community at an exhibition in Nairobi. Many people do not approve of homosexuality, though they believe Christianity teaches freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. Photo/FILE

Gay and proud about it. A member of the gay community at an exhibition in Nairobi. Many people do not approve of homosexuality, though they believe Christianity teaches freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. Photo/FILE 

By ESTHER NAKKAZI  (email the author)
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Posted  Monday, November 9  2009 at  00:00

To the gay community, online evangelicals in Africa are on a witch hunt of homosexuals since most of them see homosexuality as evil and anti-godly.

On the Partners Uganda online forum, Edward Green, the director of the Aids, Prevention Research Project, Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies says the Bill sounds dangerous and completely inhumane.

He adds that such legislation is unenforceable and would only drive homosexuality farther underground.

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