Why is Uganda attacking homosexuality?

[brekin]

Why is Uganda attacking homosexuality?
By Saeed Ahmed

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/12 ... index.html

(CNN) -- As a gay man in Uganda, Frank Mugisha is used to the taunts, the slurs and the daily harassment of neighbors and friends.

But if a new bill proposed in the east African country becomes law, Mugisha could be put away for life, or worse, put to death for having sex with another man.

"Right now, you can't go to places that are crowded, because the mob can attack us or even burn us. We can't walk alone. We are ostracized by relatives. But if this bill passes, it will become impossible for me to live here at all. And that part hurts the most," Mugisha said.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill features several provisions that human rights groups say would spur a witch hunt of homosexuals in the country:

• Gays and lesbians convicted of having gay sex would be sentenced, at minimum, to life in prison

• People who test positive for HIV may be executed

• Homosexuals who have sex with a minor, or engage in homosexual sex more than once, may also receive the death penalty

• The bill forbids the "promotion of homosexuality," which in effect bans organizations working in HIV and AIDS prevention

• Anyone who knows of homosexual activity taking place but does not report it would risk up to three years in prison

"Who will go to HIV testing if he knows that he will suffer the death sentence?" Elizabeth Mataka, the U.N. Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa, told reporters last week. "The law will drive them away from seeking counseling and testing services."

Homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda under colonial-era laws. But the bill, introduced in October, is intended to put more teeth into prosecuting violators.

It applies even to Ugandans participating in same-sex acts in countries where such behavior is legal.

"They are supposed to be brought back to Uganda and convicted here. The government is putting homosexuality on the level of treason," Mugisha said.

Lawmakers have indicated that they will pass the bill before year's end.

It has the blessing of many religious leaders -- Muslim and Christian -- in a country where a July poll found 95 percent opposed to legalizing homosexuality.

The Rev. Esau Omara, a senior church leader, said over the weekend that any lawmaker opposing the bill will pay for it during the next election, according to local newspaper reports.

And a leading Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje, has called for gays to be rounded up and banished to an island until they die.

Several media outlets also have inflamed sentiments in recent months by publicly pointing out gays and lesbians.
Who will go to HIV testing if he knows that he will suffer the death sentence?
--Elizabeth Mataka

In April, the Observer newspaper published tips to help readers spot homosexuals. And over the summer, the Red Pepper tabloid outed 45 gays and lesbians.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has not publicly stated his position on the bill, but last month blamed foreign influence in promoting and funding homosexuality.

"It is true that, if the president has said that, he must have information that European nations are promoting (homosexuality) and recruiting homosexuals," government spokesman Fred Opolot said. "You must note that the president or the legislators are responding to the concern of the citizenry of the country."

At the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago late last month, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he pulled aside Museveni to deplore the bill.

"We find them inconsistent with, frankly, I think any reasonable understanding of human rights, and I was very clear on that with the president of Uganda," Harper told reporters.

In the United States, a coalition of Christian leaders released a statement Monday denouncing the bill.

"Regardless of the diverse theological views of our religious traditions regarding the morality of homosexuality, in our churches, communities and families, we seek to embrace our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters as God's children, worthy of respect and love," the statement read.

Human rights groups have called on Western nations to withhold aid from Uganda if the measure passes. About 40 percent of the country's budget comes from international aid.

"This draft bill is clearly an attempt to divide and weaken civil society by striking at one of its most marginalized groups," said Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "The government may be starting here, but who will be next?"

Opolot, the government spokesman, said consideration of the bill in parliament is merely "democracy at work."

"We as a country are engaging and debating a pertinent issue," he said. "So if a foreign country chooses to cut aid simply because Uganda is debating its destiny, then it is quite outrageous and quite wrong."

Mugisha, who now heads the group Sexual Minority of Uganda, said he is working with lawyers and other activists to change minds and defeat the measure.

"I have put a lot of effort in this struggle. I just want to live freely every day," he said. "I want to be happy knowing that if I'm going to meet someone, I'm not going to be taken to jail forever."

[8bitagent]

Why? Because white supremist right wing politicians in America are behind it:
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/author-the- ... e-hiv-men/

In Jamaica, gays are routinely beat and murdered with no consequence. In a lot of African countries both Islamic and Christian, gays are put to death or put in prison. In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the police make sweeps on gays congregating.

There's a GREAT documentary exposing a lot of this called "Dangerous Living". This is why whenever I hear someone say "faggot" or "I dont know about those people" I try and bring up the real life horror gay people face around the world.

And it upsets me people who should know better(like Alex Jones) are continuing to spread misconceptions and anti gay hate.

[wallflower]

are also a factor. In an OpEd in Pambazuka News via AllAFrica http://allafrica.com/stories/200910161126.html Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe and Frank Mugisha emphasize this point:

Bahati's bill is an alarmingly retrogressive piece of legislation, aimed at legalising hatred against a section of the Ugandan citizenry, but also importantly at controlling and censoring dissent and open public debate. In legal terms, the bill would set a precedent for state authorities to control rights to freedom of expression, freedom of thought and freedom of association for state and non-state actors. It would also set a precedent for government censorship of internal workplace and other policies of national and international institutions operating in Uganda.

2011 elections are coming and this bill--almost certain to pass--is a substantial blow to democracy in Uganda. The undemocratic elements of law under the guise of religion are important to pay attention to in American politics as well. The incorporation of Hyde Amendment provision in health care reform have implications beyond women and health to target undermining citizen rights.

[wallflower]

Sorry I'm new to posting. The previous post should begin: Internal Ugandan politics are...

[justdrew]

why? Democracy in action isn't it?

Isn't that how it works? Some idiot decides they want to be in charge and so in order to get votes, they pander to the most vile and base hatreds most common in the electorate. At least that's how "good Christians" do it.

[8bitagent]

why? Democracy in action isn't it?

Isn't that how it works? Some idiot decides they want to be in charge and so in order to get votes, they pander to the most vile and base hatreds most common in the electorate. At least that's how "good Christians" do it.

Yeah I remember that argument actually last year here in California. "well, the people have spoken...even the majority of blacks voted for it" in response to Prop 8, which I unapolagetically called Jim Crow fascism.

Strange seeing the face of ultra hateful anti gay propaganda all over the news being a Jewish guy named Richard Cohen, and the face of the most extreme forms of gay brutalization being black and Arab countries overseas(Jamaica, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc)

Somehow the white racist elite were able to convince the "mud races" they view with disgust to further denegrate and kill both themselves and others.

[kool maudit]

homophobia is not only the province of the white elite.

[American Dream]

http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTIC ... 12-21.html

Uganda's Very Smelly "Accident"

Black Star News Editorial
December 21st, 2009


Beleaguered U.S.-backed Uganda tyrant Yoweri Museveni has been in the global media lately with worldwide coverage of attempts by lawmakers from his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party to pass a law that makes homosexuality punishable by death.

Many observers believe that in addition to currying favor and largesse from the Christian Right Wing in the U.S. --Pastor Rick Warren was among those who declined to denounce the proposed legislation until he abandoned ship following world outcry-- the proposed law is also intended to discredit and criminalize political opponents including those who aren't gay, by malicious insinuation.

In the run up to the 2001 presidential elections, Museveni hit his chief opponent Dr. Kizza Besigye below the belt claiming he was "suffering from AIDS"--reprehensible remarks from a fraudster who pays PR advisers to promote him as a champion of AIDS victims.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 22,00.html


Ugandans reacted angrily to the outrageous remarks and did the right thing by electing Besigye president. But Museveni held on to power anyway. In 2006, his regime charged Besigye, once Museveni's own personal doctor, with sedition and rape--again he held on to power after another election that Besigye and many Ugandans believed he had lost.

In August this year, Olara Otunnu, another prominent Ugandan who may throw his hat into 2011 presidential race, returned from many years of living abroad. A Sydney Peace Prize recipient and, like U.S. President Barack Obama a fellow Harvard Law School alum, Otunnu's most recent high profile post was as United Nations Under Secretary General for Children in conflict areas. The Museveni regime had once threatened to have him arrested for sedition--in his Sydney lecture he deplored the genocide of Uganda's ethnic Acholis in concentration camps created by the government.

http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=764


Otunnu stayed in Uganda for a few weeks after his August return and was welcomed by huge crowds. While there, local newspapers reported that the government had a plan to "smear" him as gay and HIV positive. He told AFP that he was neither gay nor HIV positive.

Some observers believe the proposed gay death bill law is meant to demonize, discredit and falsely criminalize people like Otunnu. After all, one can't conduct serious campaigning if one is in court trying to disprove false allegations that they are gay--charges that would carry the death sentence in Museveni's Uganda if the bill were to go through. Going by the logic of the sinister proposed law, a government agent could simply accuse any Museveni opponent of being gay and presumably a sympathetic judge could draw up charges.

Far fetched? Recall that during the 2006 vote Besigye had to repeatedly interrupt his presidential campaign to "defend" himself against the concocted rape charges. By the time the case was thrown out, Museveni had been sworn in for another presidential term.

Machiavelli would have been no match for this wily and cruel Ugandan.

All this background leads us to the timing of a supposed "accident" yesterday, involving Otunnu and a motorcade belonging to Museveni's presidential guard brigade (PGB).

As it seems now, Museveni may soon have to shelve the heinous proposed gay death sentence bill due to universal global condemnation. What other strategy to pursue?

Ever since the murder of Uganda's renowned clergyman, Archbishop Janani Luwum, by the late dictator Idi Amin auto "accidents" have been justifiably viewed with a great deal of suspicion by Ugandans. Of course Amin was a bit crude, and the Luwum "accident" was difficult for him to explain off when bullet marks were found on the Archbishop--it was later revealed that Amin personally shot Luwum.

After spending most of October and November winding up his affairs in New York, Otunnu again returned to Uganda this month. Suddenly, yesterday comes report of him narrowly escaping death from an auto "accident."

A Uganda government spokesperson told The Daily Monitor, a leading Uganda newspaper that the soldiers didn't even know Otunnu was an occupant in the car. The spokesperson said it was an accident caused when Otunnu's driver lost control after he tried to overtake the motorcade traveling from Kampala from the city of Gulu yesterday morning-- Museveni was not in the motorcade having conveniently flown by helicopter.

Otunnu's reported account to AFP contradict's the government's version. According to what Otunnu told AFP, his driver had signaled that he wanted to drive ahead of the slow-moving presidential guard brigade (PGB) convoy. The PGB, reportedly more than 10,000 strong and better equipped than the national army is Museveni's private military and is commanded by his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who was trained at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

"It was really a miracle no one was hurt," Otunnu told the news agency. "We were coming from behind, and they clearly made way for us to pass. Then, the third vehicle in the convoy came out into the middle of the road, where we were passing."

Otunnu's car ended up slamming into mango trees off the road, he told AFP, after what the agency reported as "a series of precarious maneuvers." The guards then surrounded his entourage with guns trained, Otunnu told AFP.

"They were calling out my name," the agency quoted him saying, which would contradict the government's position that the occupants of the car were unknown. "They seem to have known who I was, even though I had not yet left the vehicle."

Moreover, according to AFP's account, Otunnu said the soldiers "refused to identify themselves, removed the number plates from their vehicles and removed the name tags from their uniforms...." The soldiers also reportedly confiscated a video camera from a reporter traveling with Otunnu.

Do these sound like the actions of professional soldiers or of a secretive death squad?

[seemslikeadream]

What is it About Uganda?Bachmann Campaign Faith-Based Organizer Arrested There in 2006
Rachel Tabachnick
Thu Aug 18, 2011 at 03:37:53 PM EST
Peter Waldron, a self-proclaimed Christian Dominionist, is now doing faith-based organizing for Michele Bachmann in Iowa and South Carolina. In 2006, he was arrested in Uganda for having four AK-47s and 180 bullets. According to the Atlantic, one paper stated that Waldron was working with Congolese rebels to capture the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony. Another reported that Waldron was forming a Christian political party. Now Waldron, who claims ties to Martin Ssempa, is promoting a movie. Regular Talk2action readers must have a feeling of déjà vu. A Transformation movie from the same time period was about a spiritual warfare excursion led against Kony strongholds by Apostle Julius Oyet, also a key figure behind the "kill-the-gays" bill. The movie was produced as a promotion for the spiritual warfare ideology of the New Apostolic Reformation and included interviews with President Yoweri Museveni and Sam Brownback. What is it about Uganda?

Waldron was quoted in an article in Uganda's Daily Monitor after his arrest in 2006.

"It struck me that, for many Americans of faith, Uganda - a country where homosexuality and abortion are outlawed, where politicians freely mix church and state, and where outward displays of religious devotion are the norm - represents a kind of haven."


Richard Bartholomew describes Waldron.

His theology draws explicitly on Rousas Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism, and libertarian rhetoric is put at the service of a theocratic agenda.

Dominionists act upon their belief that government and society should be ruled according to biblical law. American Dominionists seem drawn to Uganda, as if it were some kind of laboratory for experiments to be repeated in other places. Jeff Sharlet observed this in his research for his books The Family and C Street House, which documented the activities of this American-based religio-political fraternity of politicians and power brokers.

As noted by Richard Bartholomew, Waldron is a Christian Reconstructionist, but Charismatic Dominionists have also been swarming Uganda for years. The Charismatic brand of Dominionism of the New Apostolic Reformation has the same agenda as Christian Reconstructionism, but more followers and better packaging and public relations. Despite significant differences in their theology, both brands of Dominionism teach that Christians have a mandate to take control over the institutions of society and government.

Waldron is the author of the 1987 book Rebuilding the Walls: A Biblical Strategy for Restoring America's Greatness. In an interview in 2009 Waldron stated that

"Biblical principles are eternal and the principles that are applied and referenced in this book are principles that must be applied to today in light of the recent election. As a consequence of the turn of our nation to socialism, away from our historic democracy, our republic, our free enterprise, our capitalist system, these principles are needed today."


The foreword of the book is by George Grant, now known for his statement,

"Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.
But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish."


Bartholomew also points out that Peter Waldron was on the steering committee of Coalition on Revival and part of Dennis Peacocke's Anatole Fellowship. The latter was a project for the purpose of gaining influence in the Republican Party, as reported in Sarah Diamond's book Spiritual Warfare. The Coalition on Revival (COR) brought together Religious Right figures from many different theological backgrounds. In the 1980s, they produced a set of Worldview Documents laying a ideological foundation for activism to take authority over 17 various areas of culture and government.

The Coalition on Revival included several Charismatic leaders who are now a part of the New Apostolic Reformation, including Dennis Peacocke and Bob Weiner, formerly head of Maranatha Campus Ministries. C. Peter Wagner is listed as a signer of the COR's Christian Manifesto for the Church. The concept advanced in the COR's 17 Worldview Documents, has now been simplified by apostles of the New Apostolic Reformation into the Seven Mountains mandate, a campaign for taking control of: arts and entertainment, business, education, family, government, media, and religion.

The Charismatic Dominionists of the New Apostolic Reformation see Uganda as a prototype for their activism in other nations. At the moment they are celebrating unprecedented access to U.S. political candidates. This is one of the reasons we should pay attention to what has been happening in Uganda.

Transforming Uganda

The involvement in Uganda of the leadership of what would become the New Apostolic Reformation dates back to at least the 1990s, if not earlier.

The movie Transformations II features a vignette on Uganda that includes interviews with President Yoweri Museveni and his wife Janet and numerous other Ugandan political and religious leaders. It is claimed in the movie that a nationwide revival and godly government resulted in miracles, including the supernatural healing of AIDS. In An Unconventional War (released on DVD in 2006), Julius Oyet launched a "spiritual warfare" assault on what were claimed to be demonic altars at which Kony and his warriors gained their supernatural powers. The movie included extensive interviews with President Museveni about his support for the project and a brief interview with Sam Brownback. Photobucket Oyet is also known for his role in orchestrating support for the the Anti-Homosexuality bill and was recognized by the Ugandan Parliament when the bill was first introduced.

Brownback has worked closely with the apostles for several years, including participating in The Call events and "reconciliation" ceremonies with Native American Apostles. [Graphic above right: Sam Brownback with Apostles Dutch Sheets and John Benefiel at The Call Nashville in 2007]

The Transformations series of movies is produced by George Otis, Jr. and Sentinel Group. Otis is one of the pioneers of the Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare promoted by the New Apostolic Reformation. Each film shows examples of claimed "transformation" of communities or nations as a result of spiritual warfare and the advancement of evangelical leadership over the community. The first film was released in 1999 and included a vignette about Kenyan Thomas Muthee. (Muthee is better known by the general public for a less professional video clip in which he was anointing Sarah Palin in 2005 at Wasilla Assembly of God.)

For an excellent summary of the involvement of apostles and leaders associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, see Bruce Wilson's compilation Transforming Uganda, also embedded below. The video is centered on the activities of Ed Silvoso and George Otis, Jr., both pioneers in the promotion of the New Apostolic Reformation's concept of community transformation through spiritual warfare. It is 20 minutes long but provides an overview of the apostles activities in Uganda that is difficult to obtain from print.

Transforming Uganda / medium resolution for DSL - 768Kbs from Bruce Wilson on Vimeo.
Also see the accompanying short biographies of each of the major American and Ugandans leaders in "Transforming Uganda." Also see Six Reasons Why Americans Should Care About What is Happening in Uganda, a warning that is more applicable today now that we have presidential candidates who have openly embraced leading dominionists, both of the Christian Reconstructionist and Charismatic Dominionist variety.

In 2004 C. Peter Wagner, Chuck Pierce and John P. Kelly, leaders of the International Coalition of Apostles, traveled to Africa to anoint leadership for the "apostolic government of the church" in Uganda, Congo, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya. At that time, Wagner tapped Ugandan apostle Jackson Senyonga, also a star in the The Transformations movies, as the apostolic representative for that region of Africa. Also accompanying them was George Otis, Jr., producer of the Transformation movies, and Nigerian-born Joseph Thompson, who was Ted Haggard's associate pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.

Apostle Julius Oyet is also theUgandan National Director of "Healing Rooms," which is under the authority of U.S. Apostle Cal Pierce and the International Association of Healing Rooms. As seen in Transformations II, the apostles claim that when godly government is installed, AIDS can be miraculously cured. Oyet is also head of the Ugandan division of College of Prayer, an Atlanta based international ministry with divisions in several African nations. The College of Prayer works with "Marketplace Apostles" and Wagner Leadership Institute to "take back the seven mountains" and has held training for members of the Ugandan Parliament.

The College of Prayer website now includes this announcement.

On April 18th our team established the 40th campus of the College of Prayer with 248 national leaders in the capital city of Kampala, Uganda. Fred and Sherry Hartley, Mike Plunket, Joel Kangas and Rian Seipler joined Apostle Julius Oyet in establishing this highly strategic new campus.


Anti-Gay Rights Emphasis

The bill pending in Uganda would strengthen laws existing against homosexuality, including the death penalty for some offenses and jail sentences for those who fail to report what they know about homosexual activity.
Although the Transformation movies do not focus on the movement's anti-gay animus, the politicians featured in these movies and are now leaders in campaigns against gay rights from Uganda to Brazil. The same is true with politicians involved in related Transformation organizations, such as Ed Silvoso's International Transformation Network.

Apostle Lou Engle leads "The Call" events around the globe, including one in Uganda in which participants called for support of the "kill-the-gays" bill. The Call events focus on criminalizing abortion, fighting gay rights, and supporting Messianic Jews and the proselytizing of Jews. Rick Perry's prayer event was patterned after and led by leadership from The Call and the associated International House of Prayer. Perry's event also featured prayer segments on these same three themes, although the language was considerably toned down. Abortion was termed "shedding of innocent blood" and their campaign against gay rights was couched in terms of fighting "sexual immorality." PhotobucketThe segment on the need to proselytize Jews was couched in terms of a "prayer for Israel" and led by Apostle Don Finto.

As Perry spoke to the audience at his prayer event on August 6, two people stood with him. [Graphic at right.] One was Apostle Alice Patterson, touted by Silvoso and other leading apostles as a transformation expert in the area of the government mountain.

The Missionary Stream in Reverse

Today the flow of religo-political missionaries does not only go from the U.S. to Uganda, but also the other way. Oyet has led training on the "government mountain" and spoken around the U.S., including at Apostle Johnny Enlow's Daystar Church in Atlanta. Enlow is the author of The Seven Mountain Prophecy and the Coming Elijah Revolution, which, as Warren Throckmorton has described, essentially calls for the criminalization of homosexuality. Enlow also claims that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were punishment from God for scheduled gay events in New Orleans and Key West. Enlow wrote in 2007 that Atlanta would be the center for this "Elijah Revolution" as prophesied by Oyet. In the same missive Enlow states,

"Morality, not only CAN be legislated, it MUST be legislated."

Oyet has spoken at conferences in the U.S. as an expert on the "government mountain" of the Seven Mountains mandate. As Enlow points out in his book,

"One of the primary roles of future government leaders will be to instruct in righteousness. The more God's judgments are poured out on the earth, the more explicitly they will be able to give that instruction."

On his blog, Apostle Jackson Senyonga talks about his work with U.S. apostles and other evangelical leaders under the heading "I remember when we hosted C. Peter Wagner's International Coalition of Apostles in Uganda, East Africa."

I remember when I ministered alongside many strong ministries and ministers. I felt like my name, Pastor Jackson Senyonga humbly fit in perfect with The International Coalition of Apostles. What an honor and privilege to share ministry with seasoned leaders by God's grace. Here in the United States I have spoken in conferences and seminars with men who follow in God's footsteps. Men like Jack Hayford of the Church on the Way and the Kings Seminary, Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network ... the late Bill Bright of the Campus Crusade for Christ, John Kilpatrick known for the Brownsville Revival in Brownsville, Fl, and Rick Joyner of Morning Star Ministries from South Carolina.


Senyonga was part of the faculty list for Ed Silvoso's "Light the Bay" event in San Francisco in 2005, along with Duke Aiona, then Lt. Gov. of Hawaii, and Stephanie Klinzig. At that time Klinzig was mayor of Elk River, Minnesota, described by Silvoso as a "detonator city." See a previous article about the transformation activities in Hawaii and in Elk River.

Uganda has long been considered key to influencing religion and politics in that region of Africa. It has been touted as the greatest "transformation" success story in media of the New Apostolic Reformation. Peter Waldron's saga is another piece in the puzzle of unraveling the nature and intent of American Christian Right activism in that country and this one.

[Marie Laveau]

I think the real question should be why is the right-wing so interested in Uganda? And, of course, the answer would be resources. The money to manipulate the "morals" of the country is just the pay-off to rape the land.

Same as it ever was.

[Simulist]

Why is Uganda attacking homosexuality?

If you'll pardon the pun, I presume it also has something to do with the historical fact that we gays are "low hanging fruit."

If you want to galvanize people against a common enemy, pick a common enemy that can be easily hated. Religion has often made accomplishing that much too simple.

[slimmouse]

I think the real question should be why is the right-wing so interested in Uganda? And, of course, the answer would be resources. The money to manipulate the "morals" of the country is just the pay-off to rape the land.

Same as it ever was.

The way the few are able to control the many is by making the many believe that the beliefs and personal preferences of others are a matter for the rest of us, irrespective of the fact that people dont get harmed.

People who get too close to understanding this can easily be de-sensitised by a 9/11 type event, or by someone quoting the relevant passage of the various religious divide and rule scriptures, one of which the vast majority of humanity has been weened upon.

[8bitagent]

Ghana too. Oh and Senegal.

Pretty much the right wing has been able to live out their fascist fantasies of outright murdering gays through direct proxies in Black Christian nations in Africa and Jamaica.

Isnt it funny how the Christian right endlessly demonizes Islamic countries, but never uses the persecution of gays in Muslim countries as an example?

More should be done to expose this and highlight who is the driving force behind it. If this was a persecution of say, Jewish people, we'd be hearing a lot more about it