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Some much-needed allyship from one of anti-LGBTQ+ Africa’s top religious figures · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: McGrath coming up. America's the queerest it's ever been. First, though,
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  Speaker 2: it's some much needed ally shipping Ghana from one of
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  Speaker 2: Africa's top religious figures, Archbishop Cyril Kabina ben Smith, whose
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  Speaker 2: head of the Anglican Church in West Africa, is pushing
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  Speaker 2: back and some harsh anti LGBTQ, plus legislation that's on
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  Speaker 2: the way just identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or
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  Speaker 2: queer could get you up to three years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Whilst there'll be a duty to report prohibited acts to police.
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  Speaker 3: We do not support the criminalization of the old children
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  Speaker 3: of God. That's very important, the old children of God
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  Speaker 3: and God loves them.
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  Speaker 2: Archbishop ben Smith talking to the BBC and even being
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  Speaker 2: an ally will come with the threat of jail time
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  Speaker 2: and the Gana's new legislation. There have been similar crackdowns
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  Speaker 2: and LGBTQ plus rights across Africa. Uganda brought in the
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  Speaker 2: death penalty for same sex acts three years ago. Pride
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  Speaker 2: Daily next attempts to deal with rising intolerance for ALGEBEBTQ
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  Speaker 2: plus people in Denmark. A national study is going to
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  Speaker 2: be looking into this, particularly focusing on young men and
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  Speaker 2: the young Muslim population to identify how big an issue
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  Speaker 2: this is. Previous research in twenty fifteen shared an increase
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  Speaker 2: among the kids and grandkids of Muslim immigrants who think
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  Speaker 2: homosexualities the religious sin. Pride Daily and a record twelve
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  Speaker 2: percent of adults in America, So that LGBTQ plus, if
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  Speaker 2: you go buy new estimates from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation,
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  Speaker 2: that's twenty five point six million people, of which well
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  Speaker 2: more than one in ten are aged eighteen to twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Do tell me when you've had enough. Stats. Among queer adults,
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  Speaker 2: about sixty five percent are bisexual, with a third lesbian
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  Speaker 2: or gay, and twenty one percent also identifies transgender or
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  Speaker 2: gender expansive, So taking a non binary, gender fluid and
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  Speaker 2: a gender time to tell you that. Netflix and HBO
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  Speaker 2: Max have been fined by Turkey's broadcast regulator for promoting
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  Speaker 2: LGBT propaganda. Among the problem productions, Hot Stopper Forever accused
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  Speaker 2: of encouraging a homosexual lifestyle among young people, and San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco Black Pride Week starts today, back for a second year.
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  Speaker 2: If you tell your friends about Pride daily, they'll like
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  Speaker 2: you even more. Yes they will. That's your lot. I'll
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