reap what you sow…

Posted on Monday 4 January 2010


After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays
New York Times
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
January 3, 2010

KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family. For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior. One month after the conference, a previously unknown Ugandan politician, who boasts of having evangelical friends in the American government, introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, which threatens to hang homosexuals, and, as a result, has put Uganda on a collision course with Western nations. Donor countries, including the United States, are demanding that Uganda’s government drop the proposed law, saying it violates human rights, though Uganda’s minister of ethics and integrity [who previously tried to ban miniskirts] recently said, “Homosexuals can forget about human rights”…

 

The three Americans who spoke at the conference — Scott Lively, a missionary who has written several books against homosexuality, including “7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child”; Caleb Lee Brundidge, a self-described former gay man who leads “healing seminars”; and Don Schmierer, a board member of Exodus International, whose mission is “mobilizing the body of Christ to minister grace and truth to a world impacted by homosexuality” — are now trying to distance themselves from the bill…
Our political landscape has been obfuscated by a fog of "plausible deniability" for the last decade. In practice, it means saying whatever nasty, slanderous thing you want to, but phrasing it in a way that allows you to disavow the meaning of your comment later if confronted. It’s not going to work here. These Ex-Gay, Exodus people have been preaching their bullshit about homosexuality for enough years. We know what they want – for homosexuality to disappear, either go back in the closet or … [they don’t say it, but the Ugandans heard it]. So now Uganda is going to pass a "Final Solution" Law.
 
One month after the conference, a previously unknown Ugandan politician, who boasts of having evangelical friends in the American government, introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, which threatens to hang homosexuals, and, as a result, has put Uganda on a collision course with Western nations. Donor countries, including the United States, are demanding that Uganda’s government drop the proposed law, saying it violates human rights, though Uganda’s minister of ethics and integrity (who previously tried to ban miniskirts) recently said, “Homosexuals can forget about human rights.” The Ugandan government, facing the prospect of losing millions in foreign aid, is now indicating that it will back down, slightly, and change the death penalty provision to life in prison for some homosexuals. But the battle is far from over…
Well, "plausible deniability" isn’t going to fly. The Ex-Gay types preach that homosexuals recruit children and turn them into homosexuals – sort of like Vampires do in the modern Vampire Movies. So how do you protect your children from  Vampires  Homosexuals? Kill them. Drive a Silver Stake through their hearts. These crazy Religious Right people have finally been heard loud and clear! Now, remind us, "What is Christian about their message?"

Box Turtle has a comprehensive timeline of the developments in Uganda here. Scott Lively‘s thoughts about homosexuality [and the homosexual conspiracy] are here and here.

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