ANGLICAN MP DAVID BAHATI, of Uganda´s parliament, introduced the bill that would penalize homosexuality with life imprisonment or death and unleashed ¨crackling fury¨ against innocents...

¨Willful Ignorance¨ threatens the everyday lives of persecuted LGBT Ugandans, their family, their friends and their spiritual counselors such as heterosexual  Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo (¨National Scandal¨ right) who has been demonized and excommunicated by Anglican Archbishop Henry Orombi for ¨ministering¨ to  desperate LGBT Anglicans/others

Anglican MP David Bahati, spiritually counseled by Bishop Orombi

¨On October 14, 2009, a Ugandan member of parliament named David Bahati introduced legislation called the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Among its provisions: up to three years in prison for failure to report a homosexual; seven years for "promotion"; life imprisonment for a single homosexual act; and for "aggravated homosexuality" (which includes gay sex while HIV-positive, gay sex with a disabled person, or, if you're a recidivist, gay sex with anyone — marking the criminal as a "serial offender"), death.

As of this writing the bill has yet to pass, despite near unanimous support in Parliament.¨

But the violence has been building, a crackling fury not yet quite a fire: beatings, disappearances, "corrective" rapes of lesbians, blacklists in a national tabloid, vigilante squads and church crusades, preachers calling out "homos" in their own pews. HERE

Anglican Archbishop Henry Orombi, Uganda, Global South ¨anti-lgbt preacher¨  bullies and demonizes LGBT Anglicans and other Christians in Uganda and abroad

BEWARE of ANGLICAN GLOBAL SOUTH DEMONISTS: ¨No one ought feel condemned by the ignorant and/or hateful homophobic rhetoric that emanates from the lips of many clergy and professing "Christians" who erroneously claim to speak for God.¨ HERE

The Rt. Reverend Christopher Ssenyonjo, at The Center for Democratic Progress in Washington D.C. is Spiritual Counselor to LGBT Ugandans, their families/ friends and was excommunicated by Archbishop Orombi for his ministry to the suicidal, the persecuted, the outcasts and the marginalized at The Body of Christ in Uganda

BISHOP CHRISTOPHER SSENYONJO, Uganda: Spiritual mentor, pastor, and guide--at great cost to his reputation and security--inspires and gives hope to all in Uganda HERE

· Thanks to Jeff Sharlet, The Straight Mans Burden
· Thanks to Harpers
· Thanks to Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo, Anglican Hero
· Thanks to Gay Uganda, sidebar

Jeff Sharlet is the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper), a national bestseller, and coauthor with Peter Manseau of KillingTheBuddha: A Heretic's Bible. He's a contributing editor for Harper's HERE