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Tanzania is a member and a subscriber of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration but does not comply with its international human rights obligations and has no protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Tanzania does not recognize marriage equality rights for all couples regardless of their sex, sexuality or gender identity. Tanzania does criminalize homosexuality in sections 154-157 of the penal code
There are no specific anti-discrimination laws to protect people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and there are no commitments that the government has made to ensure the existence of anti-discrimination law to benefit all Tanzanians.
The LGBT people in Tanzania experience extreme social stigma manifesting in malicious gossip, name-calling, intimidating looks, anti-Gay movies, vandalism and theft of property, discrimination at work, isolation and rejection, sexual assault, or even afraid of being sentenced to thirty year in prison. All these forms of homophobia are destructive, not just for us who live openly as LGBT, but for society as a whole. LGBT people who make the decision to declare their sexual orientation face prejudice and discrimination from their family, friends, and also from wider society. The Homophobia is continuously causing extreme harm and disruption to people's lives, many LGBT people have become homeless as a result of being rejected by their families after revealing their sexual orientation. In Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Zanzibar and Mwanza between 20 and 40 percent of young people who live in ghettos are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
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Being gay is not a matter of wanting to be gay, we are born this way. And being gay is not about harming other people. It is about loving other people. Gay love is as much love as straight love. It is not a Western disease. It has always been there and always be there. And you know what? It is not a bad thing. You know why? Because it is about love and caring. THere is no God who condemns sincere and honest love.
I will tell you this Fred, yes, I do not know you but when as a child I had the misfortune to meet with your brethren I found out what goes through the minds of gay people. I am not judging you but the people who utter profanities on this page are fair game and occasionally an assumption will be made such as Playboy and their I am in error however I do suggest that you pay attention to the bible for your own sake.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (NIV, Romans 1:25-27)
http://youtu.be/MqK9LkqAgw0
http://youtu.be/qovxuW_AiZE
This is good advice and I know it will be difficult but you need to make the effort.
I answered you above. Enjoy :)
I'm bi and I should (as should others!) have the right to love and marry who we want! THANK YOU!
Brat Barnett
Poor Brat, he walks around like John Wayne but John does because of riding a horse, so brat what have you been riding to give yourself a sore butt., been to see Garfield
have you?
Ronald, you are gross and abusive. Not liker Jesus at all
folks is folks is folks, we all bleed red.
learn to spell
Why don't you learn how to spell ( victimiZing )
All of us wanted the freedom.
And now you are repeating yourself Barbara. So can I. You wish to discuss morality? http://youtu.be/MqK9LkqAgw0. After watching that then come and cry into your glass of milk you hypocrite. You think that because enough of you have finally gotten enough nerve to speak out publicly that your behaviour has become acceptable because you know that you can bamboozle the majority into going along with you even if they don't want to. This is called brainwashing and the communists were very good at it and so is the LGBT community because they have been looking for years for a way to break the backs of the majority and now they swarm out like angry bees screaming prejudice and how unfair we have been because we dislike what they do to our morality and they wish to emulate the Roman Caesar who openly sold himself as a male prostitute on the steps of the senate in Rome and this is what they want for the rest of the population and if you let them they will start on your children and the programmes on TV will be full of it and their will be no escaping the perversion that these whores are trying to enforce onto the entire population. They have attacked religion and they openly mock god and use the name of Christ as a swear word and then they have the nerve to say that Jesus will welcome them as will god because god is a fluffy toy and plays with flowers. Jesus died on the cross because god could not break his word and if he didn't then we would have suffered because we are all sinners and without the help of Jesus we have no chance of entering the Kingdom of heaven. You lot think that life is all about fairy floss and other girlie cute little things like toys that go squeak. The reality is a different one. NO HOMOSEXUALS WILL BE PERMITTED TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNLESS HE REPENTS NOW and the alternative doesn't bear thinking about. This is your chance to make the correct decision and if you think that you can do it after you die then you will be heading for the alternative, I don't know what that will be but you will not like it and you will not escape from it. http://youtu.be/qovxuW_AiZE
In the jungles of the Amazon there lives a tribe of Indian. They live in villages of 200 hundred people and each village is connected to the other villages by a straight path through the jungle. Each tribe is governed by elder and a chief and they build their huts from what the jungle gives them. These are massive affairs and the roofs almost touch the ground. Recently an anthropologist and a film crew visited these people who apparently number one million or so and many startling facts came to light, it seems that they have no crime, they have no assaults and no rape or homosexuality despite the fact that by and large they spend their days almost completely naked, they have wrestling competitions and gather as a group to discuss matters of importance. Now some modern influence are to be seen and these relate to various articles of clothing which do look out of place. The soil of the jungle is known to be too acidic to support crop and there for the government has not known how many people actually lived in the jungle but it has been discovered that the Indians have changed that by burning wood until it became charcoal and have mixed this charcoal with the soil and have done so to a depth of two metres. They have done this over an area the size of France. So what is their secret, how have they managed to do this and how has their society developed into such a clean society where there is no crime and no public disorder, no bashing or violence? No drunkenness and no murders, in fact everything that we pride ourselves on becoming and all of our compulsions do not exist among these people. Listen carefully, they do not know about LGBT so the people who do visit them will not be allowed to pollute their society and all of this nonsense that we have to put up with will never ever reach their ears. So no gays and no talk of gay bashing and no hate for homosexuals because if they learned of this happening in the world outside they would shake their heads in disbelief. And you, in the west have had the opportunities to live your lives properly, you have been given the holy book to instruct you and you reject this, you have built civilisations but have only held them by violence, by murder, by alcoholic drinks and drugs and by fornications of every kind and it was all destroyed by violence and death only to be replaced by another equally as bad if not worse. Are you still proud and gay?
THese people are being killed for doing something that they are born with. Now that's just stubid, we should just let thir bodies do what comes naturally.
Mindy Zheng Carson excellent intellectualism, but very narrow thinking(MIND), i wonder if you dont have more important things in your life than to focus on others: leave others to be
Davis thinks that that Mindy is stubid, I think that David need to go back to school and learn how to spell. Thir by becoming learned. Amanda doesn't even bother to name a source as she has already received a message that Mindy was born stupid. Susan and Frederick pipe up with a squeak or two but nothing important.
Bullshit, just fancy pants words with no moral backing.
Do you honestly think that the group of men who created your constitution actually considered homosexuals in the document but included the right for others to hold
slaves? http://youtu.be/PHR1RkRyf54
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (NIV, Romans 1:25-27
) http://youtu.be/qovxuW_AiZE Jesus speaks 1 *
http://youtu.be/MqK9LkqAgw0
You wish to separate a moral issue from a legal issue and yet your laws are based on the morals that god outlined for you. A law must be a moral law and you cannot separate the two.
You people are sick! Homosexual men are fecalpheliacs, as the presence of fecal matter plays a huge role in their form of intercourse; anal sex. Not only is it disgusting, but it also has been scientifically proven to cause many health adversities and diseased including, but not limited to: Fecal incontinence, AIDS, colon cancer, etc. It's quite sad that people are willing to risk death and/or the inevitable necessity to plug their anal cavities with tampons to prevent feces from being...
…You people are sick! Homosexual men are fecalpheliacs, as the presence of fecal matter plays a huge role in their form of intercourse; anal sex. Not only is it disgusting, but it also has been scientifically proven to cause many health adversities and diseased including, but not limited to: Fecal incontinence, AIDS, colon cancer, etc. It's quite sad that people are willing to risk death and/or the inevitable necessity to plug their anal cavities with tampons to prevent feces from being expelling into their underpants.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_there_any_danger_in_anal_sex
http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/22SxSo/PnSx/HSx/ClnCncr&AnlSex.htm
Bullshit. It is about sex and profanities and no matter how you want to dress this up it is nothing else other than a slap in the face for people who hold a religious belief and a slap in the face of god. Then to top it off you spit in the face of Jesus who came to earth to ensure that god did not break his word and here on earth he was brutally crucified, spat upon, beaten and pummelled, whipped until the skin on his back was shredded and then had nails driven through his flesh and then he died. Even the spear thrust into his side was a final act as his blood ran down his body and onto the ground, into the pits that held the cross and through a crack in the earth until it landed on the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant. See the story of the ark for yourself under Ron Wyatt name. Hopefully, it will bring some of you to your senses and make you stop acting like animals. All LGBT activity is outlawed by god and leads only to hell. Jesus said of lukewarm Christians that he would vomit them out of his mouth. Now you choose. Want to keep your filthy disgusting habits then know what to expect.
Amanda, so angry and hateful, you have determined that Mindy is born with the wrong set of genes or some rubbish like that and you think that an illiterate like yourself can educate her as well as a room full of people? The only thing that you can teach her is how to sin and disobey god who has said THAT HOMOSEXUALS ARE AN
ABOMINATION.
that's ok, Mindy Zheng Carson, you have the right to yourself, to your own opinion, but other people with another opinions might feel healthy. So, what to do! I think that your comment is too path, too easy, you can think a little longer, and write a little longer, more words (or not) for me, if you want me to respond to you with respect also next time. By the way, not that it matters, I'm not gay myself, but I have good friends who are, and your comment made me feel a little sad (for you...
…that's ok, Mindy Zheng Carson, you have the right to yourself, to your own opinion, but other people with another opinions might feel healthy. So, what to do! I think that your comment is too path, too easy, you can think a little longer, and write a little longer, more words (or not) for me, if you want me to respond to you with respect also next time. By the way, not that it matters, I'm not gay myself, but I have good friends who are, and your comment made me feel a little sad (for you too), maybe you are just to young to understand, so again, no worries! Alf Christensen
Oh, poor Alf.
Bullshit, just fancy pants words with no moral backing.
Do you honestly think that the group of men who created your constitution actually considered homosexuals in the document but included the right for others to hold
slaves? http://youtu.be/PHR1RkRyf54
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (NIV, Romans 1:25-27
) http://youtu.be/qovxuW_AiZE Jesus speaks 1 *
http://youtu.be/MqK9LkqAgw0
You wish to separate a moral issue from a legal issue and yet your laws are based on the morals that god outlined for you. A law must be a moral law and you cannot separate the two.