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Christianity Today counsels “patience” on Uganda’s anti-gay law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ose” the power of American evangelicals who had spoken about gay issues in Uganda. Such assumptions were racist, said Scott Lively, one of the speakers. If anything, Ugandan legislators did not follow his advice: He had urged them to favor rehabilitation rather than imprisonment in crafting a new law on homosexuality. There is American and European influence in Uganda, Anglican bishop David Zac Niringiye told Christianity Today. The liberationist…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…ocate in early 2013, was altered and reprinted, without permission, by the Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper, putting the lives of its gay Ugandan subjects at risk. Noosim Naimasiah, a PhD candidate at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda published an essay the Mail & Guardian saying that Uganda’s anti-gay law “has been enacted as a reaction to a debate constructed, for the most part, outside Uganda. Naimasi…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecord of trials for homosexual practices in the aftermath of the new penal code.” But, Stewart says, “the latest arrests put an end to that period of inactivity.” The new anti-gay repression intensifies a homophobic climate that led LGBTI people “to flee persecution based on their sexual orientation throughout Maldives in 2014,” according to the New Zealand immigration agency. He notes that ILGA’s 2015 report on state-sponsored homophobia had said…

Twitter Lovefest Blooms Among Anti-Gay Leaders in Uganda, U.S.

By Peter Montgomery

…at aid from American evangelicals increased threefold when his ministry began attacking homosexuality. Barber retweeted Ssempa’s note, and then praised Ssempa in a follow-up tweet, “Here’s a man not afraid of the international homofascist juggernaut.” Ssempa has in turn promoted Barber, retweeting a post promoting Liberty Counsel’s upcoming Awakening conference, and another Barber tweet claiming, “‘Gay marriage’ = the criminalization of Christiani…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ty. Opiyo notes that public opinion surveys show an overwhelming number of Ugandans believe homosexuality is inconsistent with Ugandan culture and religion, and the LGBTI people do not deserve to have their legal and constitutional rights protected. This harsh climate and these campaign tactics have inspired yet another rise in sentiment against L.G.B.T.I. people and emboldened the government’s resolve to enact laws that outlaw or severely limit o…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…ce originally stated. 2The article’s statement that Exodus did not condemn Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill for over a year after it was proposed is not accurate. The Uganda conference attended by Exodus board member Don Schmierer took place in early March 2009. The conference generated criticism from many corners, including evangelicals with long-term engagements with Exodus like Warren Throckmorton who publicly questioned the conference, and gay…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…d with Family Watch International because of his extensive work with youth promoting abstinence-based HIV education in Uganda. This association ended when Family Watch became aware of Mr. Ssempa’a support of the proposed law in Uganda calling for the execution of homosexuals who engaged in “aggravated homosexuality” (defined as homosexual sex between an adult and a minor or when a person infected with HIV knowingly has sex with another person putt…

Uganda Shelves Kill the Gays Bill—For Now

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tle more than ramping up the harassment and threats against LGBT people in Uganda, as the AP reminds us: Last year a tabloid newspaper in Uganda [Rolling Stone] published the names and photos of men it alleged were gay. One cover included the words “Hang Them.” Shortly afterward, a prominent gay rights activist whose picture was published was bludgeoned to death, though authorities contend David Kato’s sexual orientation had nothing to do with the…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay, in addition to struggling with an addiction to pornography. This short promo video offers an overview of their stories. By promoting these voices as representative of the entire experience within the LGBT community, even though they do not currently identify as such, the Adventist church elevates stories that portray all LGBT people as damaged, sex addicts, drug and alcohol abusers, unfaithful in relationships, and utterly lost if they do not…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Parliament. Then little-known U.S. evangelical Scott Lively traveled to Uganda for an anti-homosexuality conference in March 2009. The very next month, the Ugandan Parliament drafted and introduced one of the most extreme anti-LGBTI laws in the world—the Anti-Homosexuality Act, as it was officially known, called for the death penalty for LGBTI people. Africans such as Pastor Martin Ssempa (for whom megachurch Pastor Rick Warren was a mentor), S…