Tag Archives: Uganda

Last night Nightline delivered an excellent report on the situation in Uganda, interviewing the genocidal Pastor Martin Ssempa and his American evangelical accomplice Scott Lively. Watch this.

The U.S. State Department says that Uganda’s pending “kill gays” bill is a “serious affront to internationally accept human rights standards” and that it is reviewing Uganda’s preferred trade status. HRC Back Story reports: As a condition of receiving preferred status under AGOA, a country must not be engaged in “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.” In its letter, …

Today activists delivered more than 450,000 signatures to the Ugandan government on a petition protesting the “kill gays” bill. The online petition was organised by campaign group Avaaz, which hopes to eventually garner one million signatures. It was delivered to Uganda’s parliament in Kampala this morning by a delegation led by Anglican priest Canon Gideon Byamugisha. The petition was accompanied …

World Net Daily columnist Molotov Mitchell says that Uganda has it right, the Bible clearly calls for homosexuals to put to death. If gay Ugandans don’t like that, they can just leave. And that America’s Founding Fathers had it right too, because was a death penalty for gays in the original colonies. Mitchell says that by being willing to kill …

Here’s another instructive video from Rob Tisinai. In this one he deconstructs the Christianist lies about Uganda’s “kill gays” bill.

“The Church of Uganda associates itself with the concerns expressed in the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009. However, instead of a completely new bill, the church recommends a bill that amends the Penal Code Act addressing loopholes, in particular: protecting the vulnerabilities of the boy child; proportionality in sentencing; and, ensuring that sexual orientation is excluded as a protected human right. …

Immediately after the president and Hillary Clinton denounced Uganda’s pending “kill gays” bill at today’s National Prayer Breakfast, Cliff Kincaid, president of an American Christian propaganda group, issued a press release defending the bill as necessary to prevent “homosexual imperialists” from continuing their campaign to fuck as much AIDS into the children of Uganda as possible. Cliff Kincaid, president of …

Shielding his identity with a paper bag, a gay Ugandan spoke on Tuesday at an LGBT alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.

According to a tweet by CBS reporter Mark Knoller, this morning President Obama criticised Uganda’s “kill gays” bill at the National Prayer Breakfast before the very GOP group responsible for backing the proposed law. The New York Times has the complete advance text of the president’s planned speech, where no mention of Uganda or gay marriage is found, so it …

Uganda’s “kill gays” bill proponent Pastor Martin Ssempa held an “ex-gay” press conference last week, intending to put two so-called former homosexuals on display as proof that you can pray the gay away. Things backfired when he opened his presentation by playing a “graphic” gay porn film for reporters. Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa showed a press conference graphic gay porn …

Last month the BBC outraged LGBT people worldwide by placing a debate question on its website asking, “Should homosexuals be executed?” The wording of the question was changed later on the same day and a top official offered a (limp) apology, but many remain furious. Yesterday the network announced a new project dedicated to improving its portrayals of gay people. …

“Here’s the question I keep asking myself about the Uganda controversy: just what is it that qualifies the United States of America to lecture the Ugandans about homosexuality? Is it our public policy that enshrines immoral sexual behavior (oops: “sexual orientation”) and gender confusion (er…”gender identity and expression”) as a “civil right”? Is it our homosexual “marriage” laws that make …

Box Turtle Bulletin reports that Uganda MP David “Kill Gays” Behati has been disinvited from next month’s National Prayer Breakfast, where President Obama is scheduled to speak. Via Advocate: Ambassador Richard Swett, a spokesman for the breakfast, confirmed that Bahati was no longer allowed to come to the event, scheduled for February 4. He added, “The National Prayer Breakfast is …

Box Turtle Bulletin reports that Uganda MP David Bahati, the author of the pending “kill gays” legislation, will attend the National Prayer Breakfast in DC, where President Obama is expected to speak. Via Uganda’s Sunday Monitor: In February, David Bahati, the mover of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in the American capital of DC. …

The American Jewish World Service has created a fund to help grassroots LGBT groups in Uganda. Fantastic. In response to the terrible human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Uganda, AJWS has created the URGENT LGBT UGANDA FUND to support local, grassroots organizations working to protect and advance human rights for sexual minorities. Your donation …

Box Turtle Bulletin and Ex-Gay Watch earned headlines on Rachel Maddow’s show last night for their work exposing the American evangelical “quacktivists” behind Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Well done, guys!

The guys at Box Turtle Bulletin are doing fantastic work exposing the American evangelicals behind Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Here’s their first of three clips in a series about Scott Lively, who helped organize the conference that resulted in the bill. Lively’s book, The Pink Swastika, claims that gay men orchestrated the Holocaust. Because we are all serial killers at …

Following up their overdue but welcome entry into Uganda’s “kill gays” bill outrage, the New York Times yesterday called out the involved American evangelicals in an editorial called Hate Begets Hate. The government’s venom is chilling: “Homosexuals can forget about human rights,” James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently. What …

The New York Times has finally noticed the now months-long debacle over Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, in an article about the three American evangelicals largely blamed for spawning the proposed legislation. 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 …