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The Rachel Maddow Show
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The Rise and Fall of the Kill the Gays Bill
American anti-gay conservative activists presented themselves as experts on sexual orientation particularly experts on the science of sexual orientation and they're American anti-gay propaganda export operation worked in Uganda. The Ugandan government came to draft what became known internationally as the kill the gays bill it came to be called that because that's exactly what it aimed to do It prescribed death by hanging for the crime of homosexuality there was such an intense international backlash to that proposed law that these American activists who'd gone over there and promoted exactly the sort of thing tried to distance themselves from what they had done.
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