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Americans Role Seen in Uganda "Kill the Gays" Bill
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.
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.
Who's Helping Finance Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' Bill?
The "intellectual" fuel for this grotesque law came from Christian fundamentalists in the United States. According to The New York Times:
Much of Africa's anti-homosexuality movement is supported by American evangelicals, the Rev. Kapya Kaoma of Zambia wrote in 2009, who are keen to export the American "culture war" to new ground. Indeed, American evangelical Christians played a role in stirring the anti-homosexual sentiment that culminated in the initial legislation in Uganda.
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And in Russia?
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How US Evangelicals Helped Create Russia's Anti-Gay Movement
The World Congress of Families' Russian Network
Larry Jacobs, vice president of the Rockford, Illinois-based World Congress of Families (WCF), an umbrella organization for the US religious right's heavy hitters, told the audience that American evangelicals had a 40-year track record of "defending life and family" and they hoped to be "true allies" in Russia's traditional values crusade.
Since Jacobs first traveled to Russia for the Sanctity of Motherhood conference, he and his WCF colleagues have returned regularly to bolster Russia's nascent anti-gay movementand to work with powerful Russian connections that they've acquired along the way. In 2014, the World Congress of Families will draw an international group of conservative activists together in Moscow, a celebratory convening that Jacobs foreshadowed on that first visit, when he ended his speech triumphantly: "Together, we can win!"
Since 2010, WCF has helped host at least five major gatherings in Russia where American evangelicals put their views before Russian audiences.
WCF has lent its support to anti-gay politics elsewhere in Eastern EuropeSerbia, Lithuania, Romaniabut it has had its biggest and most notable successes in Russia. Indeed, the rise of anti-gay laws in Russia has mirrored, almost perfectly, the rise of WCF's work in the country, with 13 new anti-gay laws passed since Jacobs first traveled there. When I ask Jacobs if WCF's work has contributed to this pattern, he laughs and says, "Yes, I think that is accurate."
"The Russians," Jacobs has said, "might be the Christian saviors of the world."
"Putin is repeating our words," he boasts.
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Considering that such a very small percentage of the population is gay, why do so many right wingers think if they can stop gay sex, people will have more children?
Are they saying gays will marry women and have children if they are scared about being killed? Do right wingers really want their daughter or sister to marry a gay?
Is going after gays a "stepping stone" before going after other minorities?
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.
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.
Who's Helping Finance Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' Bill?
The "intellectual" fuel for this grotesque law came from Christian fundamentalists in the United States. According to The New York Times:
Much of Africa's anti-homosexuality movement is supported by American evangelicals, the Rev. Kapya Kaoma of Zambia wrote in 2009, who are keen to export the American "culture war" to new ground. Indeed, American evangelical Christians played a role in stirring the anti-homosexual sentiment that culminated in the initial legislation in Uganda.
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And in Russia?
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How US Evangelicals Helped Create Russia's Anti-Gay Movement
The World Congress of Families' Russian Network
Larry Jacobs, vice president of the Rockford, Illinois-based World Congress of Families (WCF), an umbrella organization for the US religious right's heavy hitters, told the audience that American evangelicals had a 40-year track record of "defending life and family" and they hoped to be "true allies" in Russia's traditional values crusade.
Since Jacobs first traveled to Russia for the Sanctity of Motherhood conference, he and his WCF colleagues have returned regularly to bolster Russia's nascent anti-gay movementand to work with powerful Russian connections that they've acquired along the way. In 2014, the World Congress of Families will draw an international group of conservative activists together in Moscow, a celebratory convening that Jacobs foreshadowed on that first visit, when he ended his speech triumphantly: "Together, we can win!"
Since 2010, WCF has helped host at least five major gatherings in Russia where American evangelicals put their views before Russian audiences.
WCF has lent its support to anti-gay politics elsewhere in Eastern EuropeSerbia, Lithuania, Romaniabut it has had its biggest and most notable successes in Russia. Indeed, the rise of anti-gay laws in Russia has mirrored, almost perfectly, the rise of WCF's work in the country, with 13 new anti-gay laws passed since Jacobs first traveled there. When I ask Jacobs if WCF's work has contributed to this pattern, he laughs and says, "Yes, I think that is accurate."
"The Russians," Jacobs has said, "might be the Christian saviors of the world."
"Putin is repeating our words," he boasts.
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Considering that such a very small percentage of the population is gay, why do so many right wingers think if they can stop gay sex, people will have more children?
Are they saying gays will marry women and have children if they are scared about being killed? Do right wingers really want their daughter or sister to marry a gay?
Is going after gays a "stepping stone" before going after other minorities?
