The Human Rights Campaign is getting a petition signed to send to the three anti-gay, American evangelists who have been involved in spreading anti-gay hatred in African churches and trying to influence the Ugandan Parliament.
Scott Lively of Massachusetts participated in an anti-gay conference in Uganda attended by members of Parliament shortly before that infamous legislation including the death penalty was introduced. It is still pending.
Lou Engle of Missouri held a rally in Uganda to pray for the passage of the bill.
Carl Jenkins of Georgia has helped found 50 new churches in Uganda to "help clean up bad morals, including homosexuality," according to his staff. The HRC web site says this:
They have been stirring up hostility in a country where homosexuality is already illegal, violent attacks are common, rape is used to 'cure' people of their sexual orientation – and a shocking law has been proposed that would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment or even death.
And they're in lockstep with some of the largest and wealthiest right-wing groups in the U.S. When the U.S. Congress considered a resolution denouncing the grotesque Ugandan death-penalty-for-gays bill, the extreme-right Family Research Council – now classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – spent $25,000 lobbying to stop the resolution from passing.
I thought these evangelicals were supposed to consider: "What would Jesus do?"
I'm pretty sure he would not say "kill the queers."
Ralph
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