Waging hate in Africa
Not content with their war in the US, the American Christian right is now taking it's hate to Africa.
Earlier in 2009, Scott Lively, at the invitation of Uganda's Family Life Network, descended on the African nation to bring the word of hate. Lively, told Ugandans who attended his "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda" of how American homosexuals were actively recruiting young Ugandans into their movement. He claimed that homosexuality directly increased the divorce rate, child abuse & molestation and HIV/AIDS. The Ugandans attending his seminar, ate it up.
Lively went on to meet with Ugandan lawmakers and government officials. The fruits of his labour became the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009. The act, which was proposed in October 2009, would ban LGBT organizations and introduces the death penalty for homosexuality.
American evangelicals have been actively involved in Africa in recent years, as the importance of Africa to Christianity has grown. Africa is becoming the new battleground for the conservative-religious right. They are targeting a widely ignorant population that is ready jump head first into hysteria. Easy prey is what they've found and the erosion of human rights is harder to combat in a continent plagued with problems.
Read the Ugandan hate bill here.
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