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Thread #125426   Message #2814637
Posted By: mousethief
17-Jan-10 - 08:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
GG,

The law was mooted in the Ugandan legislature after a team of American evangelists came to Uganda to denounce homosexuality (and teach people how to recruit-proof their children against homosexuality, and about "curing" homosexuals, and how they are trying to destroy African families, etc etc) at some sort of a conference. This fed into the long-standing hatred already there on the ground, and led to the law being proposed.

When they found out about the law, the evangelical speakers sought to distance themselves from the damage their hate speech engendered.

So the short answer is that there are no American evangelicals who support this proposed law. But the long version is far more complicated.

The bigots in question are Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge, and Don Schmierer.

Here is an article about the whole thing.

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