Angola has adopted a new penal code, dropping the “vices against nature” provision from its colonial era, and decriminalizing homosexuality.
The country’s new law will see people who discriminate against members of the LGBT community be subject to up to 2 years in prison, Human Rights Watchrevealed.
The country’s old penal code was put in place by its colonizers, Portugal, in 1975, allowing discrimination of LGBT people in terms of education, employment, and even healthcare.
Angola now joins other African countries like South Africa, Lesotho and Seychelles to become places where LGBT people can live without the fear of state-sanctioned discrimination and violence.
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Absurdity in the highest order!
SORRY, BUT THEY (ANGOLA AND OTHER COUNTIRES WITH SIMILAR LAWS) SHOULD GO AND TELL GOD THAT HE GOD WAS WRONG BY CREATING THE FIRST MAN (ADAM) AND A WOMAN FOR HIM (ADAM) IN THE PERSON OF EVE (ADAM'S WIFE. CHRISTIANITY IS LOSING GROUNDS TO THE DEVIL. I DOUBT IF THIS WILL HAPPEN IN ANY PROPER ISLAMIC STATE.