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A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

…e in his supernatural omniscience because he always knows exactly when the Ugandan Army is coming, in what numbers, and what kinds of weapons they are carrying. Indeed. The occasional skirmish not withstanding, Kony has apparently enjoyed high-level assistance in sustaining his lifestyle while evading Ugandan troops ostensibly tasked with stopping him. Back in 1996, according to a document reprinted by Bussmann, the Ugandan and Sudanese government…

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

…money that flows from conservative evangelicals in the U.S., as God Loves Uganda makes very clear. One pastor featured is among the five richest people in Uganda; he says his church was built with American money. Another pastor marvels that 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…

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

…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…

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Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

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Uganda Shelves Kill the Gays Bill—For Now

…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…

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

…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 putting them at risk for contracting HIV). Slate…

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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

…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…

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The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

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Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

…y being voted on in Parliament. The reported support for the bill from the Uganda Joint Christian Council is especially noteworthy since Roman Catholic Bishop of Uganda Cyprian Lwanga previously denounced the bill’s death penalty and imprisonment provisions as contrary to “a Christian caring approach to this issue,” though he also said “We, the Catholic Bishops of Uganda, appreciate and applaud the Government’s effort to protect the traditional fa…

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Rick Warren, Is That All the Courage You Can Muster?

…y that two of the world’s most influential faith leaders are engaging with Uganda on the bill. Rick Warren Tweets Opposition to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill Desmond Tutu Pens Op-Ed for Ugandan Newspaper About a week ago, I wrote a post that asked Rick Warren why he couldn’t be more like Desmond Tutu. Tutu is using his prophetic voice to try to save the lives and livelihoods of LGBT people in Uganda (as well as their friends and families) by ap…

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