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KAMPALA, Uganda Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about curing homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Ugandas 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.
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.
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 grandmothers reaction was simply, You are too stubborn.
Mr. Kaoma was at the conference and said that the three Americans underestimated the homophobia in Uganda and what it means to Africans when you speak about a certain group trying to destroy their children and their families.
When you speak like that, he said, Africans will fight to the death.
Uganda has also become a magnet for American evangelical groups. Some of the best known Christian personalities have recently passed through here, often bringing with them anti-homosexuality messages, including the Rev. Rick Warren, who visited in 2008 and has compared homosexuality to pedophilia. (Mr. Warren recently condemned the anti-homosexuality bill, seeking to correct what he called lies and errors and false reports that he played a role in it.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html
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I can think of one.
No you can't. If Uganda was a Christian nation they would not be doing what they are. Did you even notice how your own quote is attempting to link a Christian to the law that is denying any involvement in it? Rick Warren actually caught some serious flack in the Christian community because he refused to support Prop 8, and he has condemned the anti-homosexual law in Uganda. Keep blaming all Christians though, and thinking there is no difference between Muslims and Christians, it just proves how ignorant you are.
Did you even bother reading it? Sure, Rick Warren condemns it NOW, not before. You can't terrorize these people with religion and then act "shocked" when they react in a predictable manner. Besides how many right wingers on this very board insist gays are a "threat" to children. Imagine an entire country filled with those people.
The ONLY thing that protects us from right wing extreme religion ARE OUR LAWS!!!! Christians were able to escape the tyranny of religion, somewhat, Muslims were not.
Did you even bother to read it? He was not part of it before either, people like you claimed he was.