Ugandan President: church must help in fight against gays

[shenmue]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/11/18/ugandan-president-church-must-help-in-fight-against-gays/

From the article:

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called on church leaders to support the government in its fight against homosexuality.

In a speech at the weekend read for him by the Minister of Security, Muruli Mukasa, President Museveni said that any clergy who presides over a wedding of a gay couple should be blacklisted and isolated from the Church of Uganda.

Note: the Church of Uganda he mentions is a member of the Anglican Communion. Here is its website: http://churchofuganda.org/

[randys1]

1. THey could get support here from Cruz and the repubs and Scalia and so on, as far as

I can tell they pretty much want to kill Gay people too.

[shenmue]

3. I know.

Sometimes I watch these crappy preacher shows, because you have to know your enemy, and I see people like Rod Parsley and whatnot, going psychotic whenever marriage equality wins in another state. It's so sad. I get frightened sometimes, and think about moving out of the country, but I don't have enough money.

[RKP5637]

6. Same here. I think the US is going to hell in a hand basket as it descends into full Idiocracy. n/t

[RKP5637]

5. All cut from the same draconian, authoritarian and satanic cloth. They are hate mongers that cloak

themselves in the veil of religion, but are in fact disciples from hell in sheep's clothing. They need to read their bible, there are stories most appropriate in describing them.

[kwassa]

2. well, life in prison is the sentence for homosexuality there ....

The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 (previously called the "Kill the Gays bill" in the western mainstream media due to the originally proposed death penalty clauses)[1][2][3][4][5] was passed by the Parliament of Uganda on 20 December 2013 with the death penalty proposal dropped in favour of life in prison. The bill was signed into law by the President of Uganda on 24 February 2014.[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Act,_2014

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Uganda is about 37% Anglican so this is significant. Another 38% or so are Catholic and their

leadership outside the country has been very silent while Ugandan Bishops have engaged in very despicable behavior.

[VScott]

7. That should put a smile on the Eat The Poo-Poo Preachers face.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Uganda is a cesspool of homophobia and one fo the most dangerous countries for LGBT.

Thankfully, we can speak out against the homophobia there without being accused of "phobia." My fellow LGBTA folks understand.