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PDJane

(10,103 posts)
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 09:59 PM Mar 2014

Great. This is the reason I keep tabs on US politics.

If you don't, it will come back around to shock you.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/02/10/antigay_religious_group_gets_funding_from_ottawa_to_work_in_uganda.html

OTTAWA—An evangelical organization that describes homosexuality as a “perversion” and a “sin” is receiving funding from the federal government for its work in Uganda, where gays and lesbians face severe threats.

Ottawa has denounced virulent homophobia in that East African country and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has condemned plans for an anti-gay bill that could potentially include the death penalty for homosexuals.

At the same time the federal government is providing $544,813 in funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for Crossroads Christian Communications — an Ontario-based evangelical group that also produces television programming like 100 Huntley Street — to help dig wells, build latrines and promote hygiene awareness in Uganda through 2014.

This is absolutely obscene.

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Great. This is the reason I keep tabs on US politics. (Original Post) PDJane Mar 2014 OP
Harper is part of "THE FAMILY," a shadowy far rightwing quasi-religious Cult based in Washington DC? blkmusclmachine Mar 2014 #1
I have no idea. PDJane Mar 2014 #2

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
2. I have no idea.
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 11:05 PM
Mar 2014

He was one of the founding members of the Northern Alliance. He is a born-again Christian. And, he's busy removing the right to vote.

*shrug* Sounds like home, no?

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