U.S. Evangelicals’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push (NY times)

[Mari333]

'Christian personalities have recently passed through here, often bringing with them anti-homosexuality messages, including the Rev. Rick Warren, who visited in 2008 and has compared homosexuality to pedophilia. (Mr. Warren recently condemned the anti-homosexuality bill, seeking to correct what he called “lies and errors and false reports” that he played a role in it.)

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... '










http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html

[blm]

1. 'they had no intentions of stoking anger...' what a crock of sh!t. They wanted to do in Uganda what

they would have LIKED to pull off here in the US - the criminalization of even being gay.

[Mari333]

2. I have always said, if they could get away with it here, they would

killing gay people, and stoning sinners. the only thing that stops them is that it is against the law. as a woman, I shudder to think of my own rehabilitation camp. wait, Im an old woman. They would just stone me to death as a witch.

[blm]

3. I've said the same many times as I watched the power of the fundies grow in this country.

My child would be taken away and I'd be burned as a witch....all for having liberal political views.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. No intention of stoking anger?

These people travel this country spreading lies and slanders of the worst kind. And then they export an even more virulent product.

[Toasterlad]

5. I'd Love a Law Condemning Evangelicals to Death.

The world would be MUCH better off without them. I'd happily pull the switch on each and every one.

[ck4829]

6. K&R

[bullwinkle428]

7. These U.S. evangelical fuckers are just spinning to cover their ass at this point!

:mad:

[lady lib]

8. They drop a poison pill and then act shocked that lives are threatened.

nt

[Initech]

9. Bullies.... nothing more, nothing less.

That's all they are. Only difference between them and your average bully is that they claim to be doing it for the lord. :eyes: