{"id":1141,"date":"2014-08-07T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T00:37:43","slug":"uganda-court-strikes-down-anti-gay-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1141","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Court Strikes Down Anti-Gay Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Uganda recently ruled that that country&#8217;s anti-gay law was invalid. He reached this finding due to the fact that the legislature lacked a quorum when the bill was passed. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/08\/01\/uganda-court-strikes-down-illegally-passed-anti-gay-law\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">President Yoweri Museveni signed the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill in February. The law calls for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 years in prison and makes it a criminal offence not to report someone for being gay.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While this is cause for celebration. However, things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/08\/01\/comment-despite-todays-court-ruling-the-situation-for-gay-people-in-uganda-remains-bleak\/\">may not be so rosy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Uganda recently ruled that that country&#8217;s anti-gay law was invalid. He reached this finding due to the fact that the legislature lacked a quorum when the bill was passed. Via PinkNews: President Yoweri Museveni signed the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill in February. The law calls for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}