In yesterday's Happy Endings, we mentioned that Nigeria's government's one step closer to outlawing a number of homo-related activities. In case you're not the go-getter we thought you were, we'll give you the rundown.

Though presented as a simple ban on marriage, the long-winded "Prohibition of Relationships Between Persons of the Same Sex, Celebration of Marriage by Them, and for Other Matters Connected Therewith" will bar all expressions and endorsements of homosexuality. Despite President Olusegun Obasanjo officially centrist position, he and his administration call the country's Christians their core base. Thus, the government's heeding calls for the gay ban. The prohibition's passed the nation's Federal Executive Council, going into the National Assembly to become a law.

As is his style, outspoken activist and one-time Queerty contributor Peter Tatchell's issued a statement on the potentially lethal legislation. Speaking on behalf of UK-based activist organization, Out Rage!, Tatchell rails:

We appeal to gay and human rights groups worldwide to take urgent action to press the Nigerian government to uphold international human rights law and to drop this draconian legislation.
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Its extremism is rivaled only by the death penalty that exists for homosexuality in several Islamic fundamentalist states.

Um, really? The government would rather have the homos dying of AIDS, thus putting added pressure on their already fragile health care services, than trying to incorporate them into broader society? That is some straight up foolishness.