You know, I had been asking myself about your views on homosexuals and homosexuality for a few weeks now. And I think you just answered those questions.
Lets have a look at your inch and your Conservative view of homosexuals, shall we?
As we all know, Uganda recently pushed through legislation which could see homosexuals jailed for life for having homosexual sex and pretty much for simply being homosexual. Now, this ramp up in the legislation of homosexuals has been going on for several years in Uganda. Now, anyone with half a brain cell would see the laws in Uganda as being morally corrupt. At least one would hope so. A few years ago,
the New York Times did an expose on American Christian Fundamentalists and their role in Uganda's new and increased hostility towards homosexuals and homosexuality. This was before the latest piece of legislation that disgusted the world, well most of the world. Clearly not Conservative Christians who are, you know, letting their Conservative views slip through.
American Christian Conservatives at work:
American fundamentalists operate in Africa both openly and covertly. They conduct public "crusades" to covert African Christians to their extremist views but also run a plethora of "charitable" projects operated "under the umbrella of nongovernment organizations (NGOs), which provides them with access to grant monies from various overseas agencies," according to "Globalizing the Culture Wars," a report by Political Research Associates (PRA). Because none of this is reported, PRA acknowledges that "it is difficult to quantify the exact amounts going to Africa," but all of it contributes to their influence.
Churches in Africa have been lobbied by American fundamentalists to drop ties with mainstream Christian groups and promised funding if they do. PRA says that African leaders, especially "presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Sam Nujoma of Namibia have all used homosexuality to distract people from the issues facing their countries and churches by claiming that homosexuals are responsible for moral decay in Africa. They have linked homosexuality with child molestation, ritual child murder, corruption, opposition parties (in Uganda), pornography, and other social ills. Yet these same leaders are silent about human rights abuses and undemocratic tendencies in their countries." (Also see Zimbabwe: The Death of a Dream.)
American fundamentalist Rev. Rick Warren, featured by President Obama at his inauguration, traveled to the region to meet with political leaders. His public message in Uganda was, "Homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right." Whether Warren cares to admit it or not, that statement expresses tacit approval of laws against LGBT people, because, by his theory, no violation of rights is involved.
Nor is it a human right.. My my. The damage of this push by American Christian Conservatives, you know, the very ones you are whining about being lambasted by the "LIBERAL MEDIA" for their constant obsession of where homosexuals stick their sexual bits, have been encouraging the Ugandans to wage a war on homosexuality in return for cash and other 'help'. The open hypocrisy of the Christian Conservatives is that in the US and in the West, they condemn such legislation, but at the same time, they are promising the countries who wage such wars on homosexuals money in exchange to do their bidding.
While they cannot openly advocate the jailing and killing of homosexuals on Western soil, they will advocate for it on African soil. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
Back in 2012, the Ugandan Government were proposing a legislation, whereby homosexual acts would result in the death penalty and people would be able to report homosexuals to the police. The world reacted with disgust and diplomatic pressure was put on the Ugandan Government for letting their 'Conservative view slip through'. In fact,
it slipped through so well, that at one point, a list of gay people was published and people were encouraged to "hang them".
So where did this anti-homosexual sentiment come from in Uganda? How could it possibly have gotten so bad in such a short space of time?
It goes back to 2010:
Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks.
The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.
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, which threatens to hang homosexuals, and, as a result, has put Uganda on a collision course with Western nations.
The article then goes on to explain that the organisers of the conference, where these 3 American Christian Conservatives spoke at, helped draft the legislation which asked for homosexuals to be hanged. One of the speakers even admitted to meeting with them to help draft it. You know,
this is what happens when Christian Conservatives let their views slip through.
Mr. Lively has acknowledged meeting with Ugandan lawmakers to discuss it. He even wrote on his blog in March that someone had likened their campaign to “a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.” Later, when confronted with criticism, Mr. Lively said he was very disappointed that the legislation was so harsh.
Human rights advocates in Uganda say the visit by the three Americans helped set in motion what could be a very dangerous cycle. Gay Ugandans already describe a world of beatings, blackmail, death threats like “Die Sodomite!” scrawled on their homes, constant harassment and even so-called correctional rape.
“Now we really have to go undercover,” said Stosh Mugisha, a gay rights activist who said she was pinned down in a guava orchard and raped by a farmhand who wanted to cure her of her attraction to girls. She said that she was impregnated and infected with H.I.V., but that her grandmother’s reaction was simply, “ ‘You are too stubborn.’ ”
Despite such attacks, many gay men and lesbians here said things had been getting better for them before the bill, at least enough to hold news conferences and publicly advocate for their rights. Now they worry that the bill could encourage lynchings. Already, mobs beat people to death for infractions as minor as stealing shoes.
“What these people have done is set the fire they can’t quench,” said the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian who went undercover for six months to chronicle the relationship between the African anti-homosexual movement and American evangelicals.
So you will excuse me if I do not take your whine about the hurt feelings of Christian Conservatives because people think they are delusional for believing in a great father figure in the sky.
Because of their meddling, people are being lynched for being homosexual. So frankly, you can all stick your Conservative views where the sun don't shine.
You bring up an interesting take. You took quotes out of that Huffington Post article, out of context, and appear to be portraying it as if homosexuals are promoting the committing indecent acts in front of children. Is this a reading comprehension issue on your part? Or are you so Conservative enough that this is the image you wish to portray? Much like your fellow Conservative shill who visited Uganda and encouraged legislation against homosexuals which could have seen them killed for being homosexual?
