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A reply to Nairobi Bible Teacher who says: I am a vocal anti-homosexual activist

Other SheepOther Sheep eNews, October 29, 2009. 

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Other Sheep is joined by PRA in calling Rick Warren to Denounce Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill
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Dear Other Sheep Friend,
 
Political Research Associates released an eNews yesterday with the following bold headlines:  PRA Calls on Rick Warren to Denounce Proposed Antigay Law in Uganda.  Other Sheep is gratified in learning that PRA, with their eNews of October 28, is acting with the same concern Other Sheep expressed in its eNews of October 19 in which Other Sheep called upon evangelicals Rick Warren, John Stott, Douglas Carew and the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA) to accountability for their active part in inducing inhumane and hateful attitudes of Africans towards homosexual Africans. 
 
On January 6 and on October 19 of this year, Other Sheep reported that in an article on homosexuality in Africa Bible Commentary, published by AEA and endorsed by Warren, Stott and Carew, homosexuals "are worse than beasts" and should not be tolerated; homosexuals are "abnormal, unnatural and a perversion." The article also asserts: no view other than the evangelical view is to be given consideration; the common denominator of same-sex sex is coercive sex; and to be homosexual is sinful.  Africa Bible Commentary, published in 2006, is a commentary on the Bible by 70 African evangelical Bible scholars.  The featured article on "Homosexuality" is authored by evangelical Nigerian Tusufu Turaki.
 
According to the October 29, 2009, Daily Monitor, a group of religious leaders speaking on October 28 to the committee on presidential affairs by which Parliament began public debates on the Bill, affirmed that they generally support the Bill because "homosexuality is an evil and is anti-godly."
 
Rev. Steve Parelli
MCC clergy
Bronx, New York
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U.S. Rightwing Evangelicals Stoke Antigay Hatred in Africa
Source:  Political Reserach Associates eNews, October 28, 2009

In March 2008, U.S. evangelical leader Rick Warren told Ugandans that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. One year later, U.S. conservative evangelical and Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively (a resident of Massachusetts) addressed the Family Life Network and Ugandan members of Parliament in March 2009, saying legalizing homosexuality is akin to legalizing "the molestation of children or having sex with animals."

That March meeting launched a campaign that has led directly to today, when the Ugandan legislature is debating an anti-gay bill that would lead to life imprisonment for gay sex, and death for those having same sex relations if they are HIV positive or having sex with someone under 18. Heterosexuals would have no such restrictions. This law, which would also criminalize any human rights organizing for LGBT rights, could be passed any day.

Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican priest from Zambia who just completed a report for Political Research Associates on the influence of U.S. evangelicals on African gay politics calls on Rick Warren to denounce the antigay legislation proposed in Uganda and challenge his friends like Archbishop Henry Orombi and Pastor Martin Sempa who are leading the charge.

"Rick Warren shows one face in the United States where he says he loves gays, and another face in Africa, which is on the verge of pogroms against this community," said Reverend Kaoma. "We need to hear his voice loud and clear on this issue that gays and lesbians are entitled to full human rights."

"Anti-gay activists here in the U.S. have used vitriol and money to entice their African counterparts to campaign against ordination of gay clergy in the Episcopal and other U.S. mainline churches," said Tarso Lu�s Ramos, PRA's executive director.  "They have also exported the U.S. culture wars, fomenting particularly severe forms of homophobia in Uganda and other African countries whose sexual minorities are now the collateral damage to our domestic conflicts."
In mid-November, Political Research Associates is releasing the results of Kaoma's year-long investigation into U.S. right-wing evangelicals' outreach in Africa and related efforts to destabilize mainline Protestant denominations and their LGBT rights programs and policies in the United States. Kaoma's investigation required extensive travel, including to Uganda for the notorious Family Life Network conference.

Political Research Associates is a progressive think tank that studies the U.S. Right and is the publisher of the quarterly The Public Eye, www.publiceye.org.
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