Originally Posted by 5speed
thank you, but if that cannot possibly get any worse I can tell you it can by telling you how it even came to pass here.
Three Americans who spoke at a conference Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals arrived in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks on what was "the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family. 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”
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.” 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. The Ugandan organizers of the conference admit helping draft the bill, and Mr. Lively has acknowledged meeting with Ugandan lawmakers to discuss it. Mr. Lively even wrote on his blog in March that someone had likened their campaign to “a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.”.
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