GAY GENOCIDE IN UGANDA
If American evangelicals in Uganda get their way, new Anti-Homosexuality legislature (also referred to as the “Kill the Gays” bill) will pass by Christmas strengthening already existing laws and imposing the death penalty upon certain “offenders”. Not only will this proposed bill persecute gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders, it will also punish any citizen who “fails to report” within 24 hours the identity of a same-sex offender and subject THEM up to 3 years imprisonment.
Although most African nations criminalize homosexual acts, what many may not realize is that this proposed legislation in Uganda appears to be a direct result of a March 2009 conference in Kampala featuring three American evangelical Christians (Scott Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge) instructing the public on “how to make gay people straight” and teaching them that homosexuality is an “evil” institution. Thousands of influential Ugandans attended this conference, and less than a month later, a local newspaper published tips to the public on how to identify a gay person. This was followed by another Ugandan newspaper article which listed on its front page the 100 Top Gays and Lesbians in Uganda, supplying photos and addresses, along with a bright yellow banner that read “Hang Them”. Immediately after, four gay men were brutally attacked.
Currently, known same-sex individuals in Uganda face daily persecution in the form of physical abuse, death threats, blackmail, property vandalism and “correctional” rape with possible imprisonment up to 14 years. There are already NO human or civil rights that protect them, but if this legislature passes, they are facing possible genocide. In a country that is 85% Christian and purportedly Democratic, why are these individuals so targeted? And why are certain American ministers so involved in a country that is 10,000 miles away and smaller than the size of Oregon? As Rick Warren said in a December 2009 video on Uganda, the church should “protect the dignity of individuals” and we should ALL love our neighbors as God meant for us to do.
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