{"id":41020,"date":"2014-02-07T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/ecumenical-hatred-in-nigeria.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:17:08","slug":"ecumenical-hatred-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/ecumenical-hatred-in-nigeria.html","title":{"rendered":"Ecumenical Hatred in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">There have been a lot of violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, but at least they seem to be in agreement on one thing: gays are icky, evil, and should be hunted down (and, if possible, killed).<\/p>\n<p>And there are people in the US who feel just the same way, and helped craft the national legislation in Nigeria to make even discussing homosexuality in a positive way a crime worthy of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Disgusting.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qg6WBURndaZAdxVODS-mz8aTQ65Mry8JlTO_wl9RLaHlxt3eJ35Ps_kutmZVSheh7OeUaOz8ojE74WL6KgMUzjG0k-JgkAqpj8qtRrhq0h_6AQiYVFJtb7mVGjugF3lhcA0RErqqA0wUSiaaun-C3Xv4YcmO=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-26065392'>Nigerian gay men being hunted down<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aULtq7k13n8' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a lot of violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, but at least they seem to be in agreement on one thing: gays are icky, evil, and should be hunted down (and, if possible, killed). And there are people in the US who feel just the same way, and helped craft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/ecumenical-hatred-in-nigeria.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ecumenical Hatred in Nigeria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,25,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-gay-stuff","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9130,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/so_much_for_dia.html","url_meta":{"origin":41020,"position":0},"title":"So much for dialog","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Feb-06 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nigeria has legislation pending that would not only outlaw homosexuality, but would outlaw anything (in behavior or speech) that it deems to support homosexuality, including disagreement over the law itself....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LGBTQ &amp;c&quot;","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &amp;c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9454,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/04\/cheeks_turned_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":41020,"position":1},"title":"Cheeks, turned and otherwise","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jul-06 12:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I find it ... ironic. 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