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On March 22, , the Knesset repealed a British Mandate-era law banning sex between people of the same gender and thereby legalized homosexuality in Israel. The action followed a year strife to overcome the opposition of the religious parties, all of which boycotted the vote.
In , the Attorney General issued a directive ordering the police to refrain from enforcing the British Mandate-era law banning sex between consenting adults of the alike gender. A decade later, the Supreme Court ruled that the law should not be applied to acts between consenting adults in private. Israel never prosecuted anyone under the law against sodomy since the court decision; nevertheless, its maximum penalty of 10 years in prison created fear in the lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , transgender, and gay (LGBTQ) community. After a long battle to overcome the opposition of the religious pa
Fact check: Israel recognizes gay marriages performed abroad
The claim: Israel is the only country in the Middle East to recognize lgbtq+ marriage
As Americans celebrate the progress made for Homosexual rights during Pride month, a misleading claim about gay rights in Israel is circulating online.
“Would love to extend a large thank you to all the countries in the Middle East that back gay marriage,” reads a June 2 tweet with an image that claims Israel is the only country in the region to recognize same-sex marriage.
That claim has spread in different forms on Instagram.
Fact check: No evidence Tim Tebow is wearing No. 85 to honor Aaron HernandezHowever, this claim about LGBTQ+ rights in the Middle East is somewhat misleading. While Israel is unique among its neighbors in recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other countries, same-sex couples cannot legally marry in Israel.
USA TODAY reached out to several posters for comment.
Same-sex marriage is illegal in Israel
The Israeli consulate in Los Angeles says same-sex couples cannot enter into a civil marriage
Homosexuality is a crime in 64 countries worldwide
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Ghana has get the latest African nation to propose legislation outlawing homosexuality.
The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, which seeks to criminalise LGBTQ+ activities and support, is returning to parliament after former president Nana Akufo-Addo failed to indicate it into law before leaving office at the beginning of this year.
The bill is being sponsored by 10 lawmakers from both major parties, "an unusual bipartisan effort in Ghana's polarised political landscape", said The Africa Announce, and comes "despite international outcry and warnings from Ghana's key development partners".
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LGBT Network President David Kilmnick&#;s Op-Ed: The abandonment of Israel by LGBT groups is hypocritical and cruel
(JTA) — For more than 30 years, I have stood on the frontlines and been an outspoken leader for LGBT people and families. I possess been called every name in the book, my life has been threatened because of my being gay, the police insisted on installing a panic button in my house because of these threats. But that hasn’t stopped the organizing work that I continue to do to bring safety and peace to the LGBT community.
And yet, there’s been times when I’m at LGBT events, where the security that should be a given quickly dissipates because I am Jewish as well. There are unfortunately countless examples, but one that I will never fail to remember is the protest that occurred at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference I attended in Chicago in The protest was organized by pro-Palestinian activists who accused A Wider Bridge, a Jewish LGBTQ management, of “pinkwashing” Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
As I was getting off the escalator to attend a rec