Commonwealth leaders urged to take action on homophobic persecution | Ekklesia

Commonwealth leaders urged to take action on homophobic persecution | Ekklesia: "Two of Britain’s leading campaigners against homophobia – Peter Tatchell and Lord (Guy) Black of Brentwood – have urged the 54 member states of the Commonwealth to take strong and immediate action against political leaders who threaten gays with arrest, imprisonment, torture and sometimes death.

And they warn unless this is done at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this year (28-30 October), there is a chance that the 65-year old multi-racial 'club' headed by Queen Elizabeth II will become increasingly irrelevant in the eyes of millions of young people around the world."

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