Life imprisonment for gays, says Uganda's parliament

I can't understand what the Americans pushing their 'export' are getting out of it. Their own country is making leaps and bounds in LGBT equality, but as long as gay people are being persecuted somewhere in the world, they can sleep at night?

It must be agony to be that full with hatred.

I can answer that in two words. Power and Money. Africa offers both in abundance. Think of it as economic colonialism.

Albedo said:

I can't understand what the Americans pushing their 'export' are getting out of it. Their own country is making leaps and bounds in LGBT equality, but as long as gay people are being persecuted somewhere in the world, they can sleep at night?

It must be agony to be that full with hatred.

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These evangelical groups are failing miserably in their home countries, so they're colonizing more sympathetic cultures.

I've done foreign missionary work. And the senior missionaries in the field told me quite sternly that the worst thing any missionary can do is to stick their fingers into the pie of local or regional or even national politics of their assigned nation. The senior missionaries I worked under adhered to a pretty stringent protocol of keeping a separation of church & state in their endeavors. They told me ghastly tales of truly destructive mistakes made over the previous 150 years of other missionaries (tales of misguided American and British missionaries from multiple denominations spread across many targeted/assigned nations) whenever a missionary becomes a politician. It's practically a Prime Directive for a lot of modern missionaries to stay the hell out of meddling with the law in their assigned nations. It just never ends well.

Well, at least Uganda has advanced in the three or four decades since the dictatorship of Idi Amin. He'd have had homsexuals barbecued.

As for the American evangelicals, they are nearly all blatant homophobes, and have a significant following in the U.S. You only need to look at the current uproar about the comments by Duck Dynasty "star" Phil Robertson to see a good example of that.

caw

Alessandra Kelley said:

I know a number of evangelicals, and I cannot agree with your assessment. As with any large group of people, there are a diversity of opinions and attitudes among them.

If you are speaking specifically of the three men who have been steering Uganda's anti-gay pogrom, I do not know how much, if any, following they have in the US.

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Wasn't one of the main perps (Lou Engle?) in that Jesus Camp documentary from a few years ago? He had something of a following back then.

Funny how big government shits on the rights of minorities. Don't know why people would expect Uganda to act different than the Chinese, the Russians, the Cubans, etc.

Funny why homosexuals vote Democrat automatically. As soon as the Dems can create a permanent majority without gays, they'd turn on them in a heartbeat to appease other constituencies.

gdossetto said:

Funny why homosexuals vote Democrat automatically.

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Well, that's demonstrably not true. But then, blanket statements rarely are.

blacbird said:

As for the American evangelicals, they are nearly all blatant homophobes, and have a significant following in the U.S. You only need to look at the current uproar about the comments by Duck Dynasty "star" Phil Robertson to see a good example of that.

caw

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Phil Robertson is an evangelical? I thought he was just yet another "reality TV" star. Then again, Tilton, Swaggert, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Focus on the Family... Their exploits and hypocrisy should certainly qualify as "reality TV."