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In 1955, Time magazine reported that: "Famed Bahais are said to have included [[Queen Marie of Rumania]], Actress [[Carole Lombard]], Philanthropist [[Edith Rockefeller McCormick]] and President Wilson's daughter, Margaret, who, Bahais believe, gave her father twelve of his Fourteen Points straight from the writings of Baha'u'llah." <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807188,00.html Heretics in Islam], Time, accessed March 25, 2009.</ref>
==Involvement in anti-homosexuality campaigns in Uganda==
Despite the faith's official claim to the "elimination of all kinds of prejudice" (see above section detailing the "principles and goals" of the Haifan Baha'i Organisation), in August 2007, members of Baha'i faith in Uganda participated in a protest event, organized (as Associated Press reporter, Katy Pownall described in the Washington Post), by "a coalition of Christian, Muslim and Bahai groups"<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082100935.html Ugandans Hold Anti-Gay Demonstration], Katy Powell, Associated Press, August 21, 2007. Accessed January 18, 2011.</ref>, accusing 22 year-old Daily Monitor intern, Katherine Roubos, of "advocating for gay rights in the country"<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082100935.html Ugandans Hold Anti-Gay Demonstration], Katy Powell, Associated Press, August 21, 2007. Accessed January 18, 2011.</ref>, and demanding her deportation.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082100935.html Ugandans Hold Anti-Gay Demonstration], Katy Powell, Associated Press, August 21, 2007. Accessed January 18, 2011.</ref>
As Powell writes, "Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative country. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, like in most African states, and carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Tuesday's demonstration was the latest in a series of showdowns between religious conservatives and a small, but growing gay rights movement across the continent."<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082100935.html Ugandans Hold Anti-Gay Demonstration], Katy Powell, Associated Press, August 21, 2007. Accessed January 18, 2011.</ref>
==Contact==
Web: http://www.bahai.org ('''Haifan organization''')