American conservative evangelicals promoting anti-gay violence in Uganda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1BRbuuW5Hs

Uganda be kidding me!!

Yeah. The results they have arranged are something to be ssssooooo proud of. (sarcasm off) Of course the paper there didn't help either.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/uganda.gay.ac tivist.killed/index.html

Ugandan gay rights activist bludgeoned to death

From Tom Walsh, For CNN Uganda

Kato told CNN last year that he feared for his life after the list was released. His lawyer said he had informed authorities in Mukono, the town where he lived, of his fears.

"The villagers want to set my house ablaze," he told CNN at the time. "They want to burn my house. ... (They say,) 'Can you go away before my house is burned?'"

Authorities in the Mukono criminal investigations department declined to comment pending further investigation.

Activists decried the attack, and urged authorities in the east African nation to investigate the killing. They called on the government to protect them from violence, and act on threats and hostility toward them.

"David Kato's death is a tragic loss to the human rights community. David had faced the increased threats to Ugandan LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people bravely and will be sorely missed," said Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he was saddened by the death of Kato, whom he called a "powerful advocate for fairness and freedom."

"At home and around the world, LGBT persons continue to be subjected to unconscionable bullying, discrimination, and hate," the president said in a written statement. "In the weeks preceding David Kato's murder in Uganda, five members of the LGBT community in Honduras were also murdered. It is essential that the governments of Uganda and Honduras investigate these killings and hold the perpetrators accountable."

Earlier this year, Kato and two activists won a case against the magazine that published the list. The court ruled that media in Uganda are barred from releasing details of known or potential homosexuals in the country.

The editor of the Rolling Stone, the tabloid that published the list, denounced the attacks and said he sympathized with the victim's family.

"When we called for hanging of gay people, we meant ... after they have gone through the legal process," said Giles Muhame. "I did not call for them to be killed in cold blood like he was."

The Rolling Stone tabloid is not affiliated with the iconic U.S. music magazine by the same name.

Homosexuality is illegal in most countries in Africa, where sodomy laws were introduced during colonialism. In Uganda, homosexual acts are punishable by 14 years to life in prison, according to rights activists.

The U.S. Mission in Kampala, Uganda, said, "David's courageous devotion to promoting the universal human rights of members of Uganda's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community improved the lives of minority populations in Uganda and throughout Africa, and his selfless dedication to defending human rights and speaking out against injustice served as inspiration to human rights defenders around the world."

I think that's called American Exceptionalism.

Rounding up gays and hanging them is illegal in America... EXCEPT Uganda isn't America, so it's just fine.

Let's bring the kids and make it a party.

Hate crimes are always the result of ignorance, no matter the excuse for the crime.  It can be for religion, race, sex, age, you name it and someone will  have found it a reason to hate. Just as Christians have been guilty of hate so have Christians been victims of hate.  This cannot be based on just religion, even though religious fanatics seem to generate more hate than other reasons. Maybe more passion??   Ignorance, like *****ie with her refusal to consider any thoughts other than stated in the bible, are the reason we have hate crimes.  Please do not lump all hate into an anti-Christian pot.  Even highly educated people can be ignorant.  A refusal to consider any one Else's views as having any validity creates ignorance and fear.  Fear creates Hate and makes the one afraid feel justified in taking action. 

you said:  Ignorance, like *****ie with her refusal to consider any thoughts other than stated in the bible, are the reason we have hate crimes.

U R DEAD wrong!!  I say love the sinner but HATE the sin.  Being gay is wrong.  But I would never kill someone or even do a hate crime of any sort.


I love all you Atheist people that is why I come here and try to show u things of the Bible and show you where u r wrong.  I share wonderful devotionals with u in the hopes that u will get a blessing.

People like Terri r the ones u should be warned from.  They r loving u straight to HELL!! 

*****ie,  no one can love someone to Hell!  You poor girl, You are so blind.  You say you love, but continually threaten everyone that does not believe like you that they are going to Hell.  You tell people their families are in Hell.  You are so rigid in your thinking that you are dangerous to yourself and others.  Who are you to say God made a mistake when He made some people Homosexual??  Did He also make a mistake when he make some people Black, or Red or Yellow???   If someone can use a Bible passage to justify hate then they are denying Jesus in my  mind.  Jesus taught tolerance and love.  He is the New. not the Old. 

When have been over this a thousand times........you know how to love someone to HELL.

By coming in this site "claiming" to be a Christian but never ONCE preaching or teaching the gospel, sin, hell, repentance, Jesus, the cross or for the matter anything in the Bible.

You claim to be a Christian yet you tell these people that denying Jesus is ok because God is good and they will get to enter Heaven because they are good nice caring people.

WRONG!!  Lots of good people are in Hell today because people like you failed to teach the TRUTH!!

God did not make someone GAY they decided to be gay!!

 I feel so bad when I read your posts, *****ie. I'm NOT being mean or snarky when I say this, but, honestly, try to open your mind. Try to see that every single person on this planet  feels something different than the person standing next to them. It's what makes us individual. God created us in His image and that means that EVERYONE is included in that. We're all parts of a bigger whole... but individual parts, nonetheless.

Most people do NOT choose to be gay.  Why would someone choose a life in which they are going to be hounded at every turn about how "wrong" they are?   One of my best friends is gay. She certainly didn't CHOOSE to be gay. She just IS.  She's deeply spiritual, but it took her a long time to come to the point where she could be comfortable saying, "You know what? God loves me for who I am."  It took her a long time because she constantly had people telling her that God hated her... for being WHO SHE IS. I find that heartbreaking, personally. It would be like people telling us that God hates us because we were born with dark hair. How awful would it be to think you were hated or "damned" because of something you had no control over?

As for the preaching or teaching gospel...  Everyone needs to find their own way, their own path and come to their own conclusions. You can help someone if they express that they would LIKE help, but to assume that every person on the planet wants to be told how they SHOULD believe is arrogant.  You only need to travel throughout different states to see how different people believe... and if you go even farther and travel throughout the world, you'll see how vast the culture differences are. It only stands to reason that there will be different belief systems.  I believe that it doesn't matter... we all still reside within God and He resides within us. 

Some of the things that were written in The Bible were done in an attempt to control the population. Do you really think that God "spoke" to someone and told them to kill anyone who is gay?  THAT was 100% man-made, that edict.  It's nothing but judgments from men who believed they were speaking for God... but it really was their own agenda, not God's.

You are such a beautiful soul, thank you for this.

I'm going to save this post and read it when I'm down....it was so eloquently written.

I am always amazed by people who think that someone would "choose" to be gay! Like it comes with a vacation package or something??? No, I don't think I'll be straight today cuz I'm going for the steak knives...