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Ugandan archbishop acknowledges gays are “human beings”

People should not take the laws into their hands and harm homosexuals, since they are also human beings though with different sexual feelings.”

John Baptist Odama — John Baptist Odama, Archbishop of Gulu, Uganda. According to Uganda’s The Daily Monitor, Odama made the remarks in the wake of the country’s Constitutional Court overturning a controversial anti-gay law deemed invalid due to a technicality.

Source: The Daily Monitor

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