REPENT ++HENRY OROMBI/UGANDA: ¨If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness”

ARCHBISHOP HENRY OROMBI/UGANDA: ¨If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth...¨

REPENT! You may NOT CLAIM to have ¨fellowship¨ with ¨him¨ or others when you refuse ¨Communion with Anglican Primates/others¨ and/or refuse to live by TRUTH while excluding, marginalizing, abusing, lieing, persecuting and demonizing others at The Anglican Communion.

REPENT! May we hear from YOU regarding the brutal and deadly anti-Homosexuality law before the Parliament of Uganda?

REPENT! Why do you NOT condemn torture and rape of Lesbians and Gay Men and Women?

REPENT! Why did you EXCOMMUNICATE Heterosexual Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo, Retired bishop of West Buganda, Uganda, after he established a ministry to ease the suffering of gay and lesbian Christian believers?

REPENT! Pastor Rick Warren, your dear friend and accomplice in international ministry, CONDEMNS Ugandas anti-Homosexuality Bill before Parliament but YOU, Henry Orombi, remain silent while LGBT Anglicans are threatened, slandered, outcasted and fully abused at the Anglican Church of Uganda and are persecuted in everyday life in Uganda.

“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:5-9).

ATTN PRIMATE +HENRY OROMBI of UGANDA: When will you CONDEMN the anti-Homosexuality law pending before Parliament?

Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda

·UGANDA MUST NOT ALLOW WESTERN INFLUENCE PRESSURE US INTO ABANDONING OUR HERITAGE·

¨I call upon our government leaders to uphold marriage between one man and one woman, and the family they produce, as a foundational building block for our society and our country. This part of our African culture is affirmed in the Bible and we must not let Western influence pressure us into abandoning this part of our heritage. HERE

·ARCHBISHOP OROMBI REFUSES TO CONDEMN TORTURE AND RAPE OF LESBIAN AND GAY MEN AND WOMEN·

¨During the press conference an intervention was also made by Riazat Butt of the UK's Guardian newspaper who pointed out that the Archbishops had not condemned the torture and rape of Lesbian and Gay men and women.

Archbishop Henry Orombi said in response: "I would not believe a thing like that is done in the public knowledge of the people of Uganda because the gay people who are Ugandans are citizens of the country and we would cherish the fact that we would want to send it our people. For some of those things probably you get information in England and we may not even get information, I don't know how they get their information." HERE

·PASTOR RICK WARREN CONDEMNS UGANDAS ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO CONDEMNATION OF THIS SAME BILL FROM ARCHBISHOP HENRY OROMBI·

¨A gay man from Uganda responded to this article, saying "It is sad that untruths are peddled. Uganda is a majority Christian country. Most of us are Catholics. Then come protestants, or Anglicans and Pentecostals. No. There is no 'Muslim majority' which demanded the death penalty and life imprisonment. It is our Christian brothers and sisters who wrote that bill. Who wrote in the death penalty. Who wrote in all the other things. They did it because of their abhorence of all things homosexual. Please, tell the story like it is. Dont sanitize the Christians in Uganda. Because, they are actually suprised at what you say. They love the bill, as it is now." HERE


·EVERY MAJOR RELIGIOUS LEADER OF EVERY MAJOR RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION REJECTS THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LAW BEFORE PARLIAMENT IN UGANDA. THEY DETERMINE IT TO BE EVERYTHING FROM ¨SHOCKING¨ TO THE REAL PROMOTION OF ¨GENOCIDE¨ IN UGANDA·

When will we have a clear STATEMENT from ARCHBISHOP HENRY of Uganda on further promotion or a well-thought-out rejection of the ¨anti-Homosexuality¨ bill?

Does the Anglican Church of Uganda support the anti-Homosexuality bill? Does the Anglican Church of Ugandan support ¨listening¨ and ¨ministering¨ to LGBT Anglicans who have suffered? Does +Henry intend to excommunicate priests and more bishops, as he did Heterosexual Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo, Retired bishop of West Buganda, Uganda, who was excommunicated by Archbishop Orombi, after establishing a ministry for gay and lesbian believers? The World and OUR vulnerable LGBT Ugandan Christians and other citizens need to know immediately. Do you wish to know our individual HEARTS and SOULS? Bishop Orombi, are you prepared to LISTEN and LEARN?

Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda--where are YOU?


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“Noche Buena” the most exuberant celebration in all Latin America.

The furthest north of the five Central American countries, Guatemala is a modern country with very old traditions. Many of them originated in Spain and were brought to the city by the Hispanic conquerors in l525. However, in the middle of the XVII Century, amalgamated with the Mayan’s traditions and those of other cultures, the Guatemalan traditions became “unique.”

Being a Catholic country, a characteristic of most of the traditions in Guatemala is that they are religious in nature. The two most important traditions are: “Semana Santa” (Holy Week) and Christmas, called “Noche Buena,” (Good Night) by the Guatemalan people.
Because the latter celebrates Jesus’ birth, during December most Guatemalans externalize their joy for life, making “Noche Buena” the most exuberant celebrations in all Latin America.


Those visiting Guatemala in December discover that the “Noche Buena” season has sounds: cohetes (firecrackers) are heard every night and marimbas play in the streets. It also has its own aroma: produced by ropes made out of pine, and manzanilla (chamomile) rosaries hang around the frames of the doors. The sights include: elaborate Christmas trees, and life-size nacimientos (nativities) in the shopping malls. In the markets, one can see rolls of “Pico de Gallo” (a red bush used for decoration) and “Flores de Pascua” (poinsettias). For sale on the stands are small clay figures depicting the Holy Family, the three kings, and the “pastores” (shepherds). There are also sheep, made out of cotton, all types of cardboard houses, and pine trees. They are used to create the “nacimientos,” (A miniature representation of the manger in Bethlehem) another Guatemalan tradition. To create them, sawdust painted in different colors become the fields and little stones form the winding roads.


Mountains are built using corrugated paper and broken mirrors create lakes and rivers. In the sky, lights sparkle simulating the stars and angels, sustained in golden strings, fly over the manger. This tradition from Spain is believed to have been brought to Guatemala by the yet to be canonized Saint, Hermano Pedro de San Jose de Bethancourt in the XVI Century.


The Christmas season in Guatemala begins on December 7th. With “La Quema del Diablo.” (The burning of the devil). On this day, at exactly 6 p.m. most Guatemalans build a “fogata,” (bonfire) outside their houses and toss the “devil,” (constructed like a piñata and filled with firecrackers) into it. The “devil” stands for all the sins people accumulated during the year.

People believe that “burning his efigy” cleanses them and makes them ready to receive in their hearts the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception whose feast is celebrated the next day (Dec 8). According to Guatemalan historian Miguel Álvarez Arévalo, the origin of “the bonfires” may be traced to colonial times when, the well-to-do, placed elaborate lanterns in the front of their homes to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The poor could not afford lanterns, so they lit bonfires made from paper and trash. How the “devil” came into the tradition is unknown, but according to historian Celso A. Lara Figueroa, the preaching priests described how the Virgin Mary squashed the head of the devil established the link.


The Feast of “La Inmaculada.” (Dec 8) is considered holy in Guatemala. People attend mass and it is celebrated with firecrackers and processions in the churches’ courts. This ritual is repeated on December 12 to honor La Virgen de Guadalupe “Patron of the Americas.” “Las Posadas” (representing St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary looking for lodging) begins around December 14.


Guatemalans celebrate “Noche Buena” on December 24. On this night, the families get together, exchange gifts, drink ponche (punch) and eat tamales.
Throughout the night one can hear the bells ringing and the firecrackers.

Santa Claus can now be seen in many shopping malls but he is not yet considered “a tradition,” For the Guatemalans the reason Noche Buena is joyous is because it is the day Jesus was born.

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CHRISTMAS REALITY ALERT: ¨President Obama is succeeding without the help of his lefty ´supporters´ or hate-filled Republican detractors!¨

Barack Hussein Obama II , OUR 44th President United States of America and his family

Obama Will Triumph — So Will America
By Frank Schaeffer

Before he’d served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds -- including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader) this unlikely Obama supporter -- are sticking with our President. Why?-- because he is succeeding.


Barack Obama takes the oath of office of the president of the United States January 20, 2009

Meanwhile back in the reality-based community – in just 12 short months -- President Obama:

#Continued the draw down the misbegotten war in Iraq
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Thoughtfully and decisively picked the best of several bad choices regarding the war in Afghanistan
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Gave a major precedent-setting speech supporting gay rights
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Restored America’s image around the globe
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Banned torture of American prisoners
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Stopped the free fall of the American economy
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Put the USA squarely back in the bilateral international community
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Put the USA squarely into the middle of the international effort to halt global warming
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Stood up for educational reform
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Won a Nobel peace prize
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Moved the trial of terrorists back into the American judicial system of checks and balances
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Did what had to be done to start the slow, torturous and almost impossible process of health care reform that 7 presidents had failed to even begin
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Responded to hatred from the right and left with measured good humor and patience
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Stopped the free fall of job losses
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Showed immense personal courage in the face of an armed and dangerous far right opposition that included the sort of disgusting people that show up at public meetings carrying loaded weapons and carrying Timothy McVeigh-inspired signs about the “blood of tyrants” needing to “water the tree of liberty”…
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

#Showed that he could not only make the tough military choices but explain and defend them brilliantly
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)

Other than those "disappointing" accomplishments -- IN ONE YEAR -- President Obama “failed”! Other than that he didn’t “live up to expectations”!

Who actually has failed...

...are the Americans that can’t see the beginning of a miracle of national rebirth right under their jaded noses. Who failed are the smart ass ideologues of the left and right who began rooting for this President to fail so that they could be proved right in their dire and morbid predictions. Who failed are the movers and shakers behind our obscenely dumb news cycles that have turned “news” into just more stupid entertainment for an entertainment-besotted infantile country.

Here’s the good news: President Obama is succeeding without the help of his lefty “supporters” or hate-filled Republican detractors!

The Future Looks Good

After Obama has served two full terms, (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts -- with a canny and calculating eye to the possible succeeds, (it will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning, (they will be), after the doomsayers are all proved not just wrong but silly: let the record show that not all Americans were panicked into thinking the sky was falling.

Just because we didn’t get everything we wanted in the first short and fraught year Obama was in office not all of us gave up. Some of us stayed the course. And we will be proved right.

Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays, depending on your point of view) to everyone!

PS. if you agree that Obama is shaping up to be a great president please pass this on and hang in there! Read it all, by Frank Schaeffer, click HERE


Frank Schaeffer is a writer and author of “Patience With God – Faith For People Who Don’t Like Religion (Or Atheism).”

Frank may be contacted at Frankschaeffer.com

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ATTN RELIGIOUS POLITICOS: The government of RWANDA has come out with a clear statement about NOT criminalising homosexuality·BREAKING/UGANDA too·

“The government I serve and speak for on certain issues cannot and will not in any way criminalize homosexuality; sexual orientation is a private matter and each individual has his or her own orientation - - this is not a State matter at all,”

The Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama, Rwanda

¨He hastened to add that the government has held a meeting with its development partners on this particular issue and told them their position ‘which is that the government has no intentions whatsoever to criminalize homosexuality.¨

Emmanuel Kolini, the Anglican archbishop of Rwanda

¨REMERA - Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini has called on churches in the East African region to fight against homosexuality for the good of the society.

The leader of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda insisted that Anglican churches in East Africa will not mingle with the homosexuals in the affairs of the church for the good of the community.¨



BREAKING NEWS FROM UGANDA on Bahati Homosexual ¨GENOCIDE¨ Bill:

U.S. officials have received assurances from the Ugandan president that he would work to block a harshly anti-gay bill from becoming law in his country and would veto the legislation should it come to his desk, according to the State Department.

¨DCAgenda, the Washington, D.C. LGBT newspaper that rose from the ashes of the venerable Washington Blade, reports that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has committed to preventing the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill from becoming law on at least two separate occasions. According to U.S. State Department spokesman Jon Tollefson¨
HERE


A Communique from members of the Tradition of the Holy Trinity in Uganda regarding the anti-Homosexuality 2009 Bill pending at the Ugandan Parliament:

¨We cannot be silent. We cannot allow the government of Uganda to dictate its policies of hate and death to our Church¨

His Beatitude Theodoros of Alexandria, along with the intervention of honour afforded the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and with all other Orthodox primates in consensus, must immobilize, censure, and excommunicate the Greek Orthodox Vicar of the Archdiocese of Kampala, the Rev. Prof. Peter Matovu, and remove Archbishop Jonah from his throne as primate of the Orthodox Church of Uganda for misrepresenting and desecrating the sacred Tradition of the Holy Trinity through their heresies and apostasy against the Faith that "established the whole creation." Matovu is a well-known, overly-vocal, public advocate of and a co-originator of the pan-evil Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009.

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ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: I happen to know that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Anglicans sometimes have ¨flawed¨ character too, just like you

Let´s attempt to have a spiritually and emotionally well balanced SANE conversation regarding human sexuality...we need not have *it* all ¨right¨ or have all the ¨answers¨ or even know many of the ¨underlying issues¨ but we do NEED to talk before society/maniacs run amuck (again) and there is oceans of innocent blood on OUR hands in Africa and beyond.*


Personally, very personally, I´ve spent a lifetime listening/watching quietly (mostly) to various people preach, slander, gossip, discriminate against, ridicule, demonize, demoralize and show general, and UNIVERSAL (mostly) contempt for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. LGBT people who are quite often members of a immediate family, extended family, simply other students, coworkers, friends (mostly) but often sitting right next to YOU/ME in a pew at Church or on a Bar stool as we run away into a place of, often pleasing, hope, faith, temporary escape or instant insanity.


Please don´t get me wrong. I understand that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender human beings sometimes have ¨bad¨ character defects too. That would be just like you and Henri Orombi, Pete Akinola, Greg Venables, Drexel Gomez and many at the Gafcon/Global South crowd. Just like heterosexuals and everybody else. I also know that the SAME 10 Commandments are suggested, er, COMMANDED, for people like me and for people like you too. I´m trying to be ¨fair¨ even though I´m over-the-top after hearing/reading the spewed out nonsense from ¨religious like¨ gang who wish to murder some of OUR fellow Christians/human beings. I´ll settle down.

It´s time WE TRY TO STOP the insane LIES (for profit?) aimed against LGBT people that are currently blowing-out formerly healthier minds. It´s time to face the bigotry initiated at church and at the statehouse, when OUR so called ¨leaders¨ are encouraging the ugly acting-out of presenting/enabling HATE legislation and calling it Gods ¨will.¨ HELP! Such self-indulged expressions of inhumane bullying and feardriven arrogance are hysterically being demanded must be made into law against the ¨least of us¨ are just plain MORALLY WRONG, deceptive and spiritually unhealthy for everyone.

Some Preachers and some Politicos/supporters are frantically inciting folks to do harm and abuse fellow citizens and that is way out of line. Insane comes to mind! We can talk about it openly, don´t be embarrassed about the depth of this depravity against LGBT Christians/others. Bishop Rowan, and others, stop looking the other way in the face of MASS MURDER (in Jail or from the Gallows).


This morning, as I keep following the ongoing NEW proposed legislation directed against my fellow LGBT human beings, in Uganda, I was startled by the lack of SANITY (forget equality) and basic reason! YOU can´t miss it (if you are willing to look) because RIGHT NOW the Ugandan Parliament is calling for the DEATH PENALTY! HERE . Yes, Capital Punishment, for various ¨types¨ of homosexual behavior (that would be a list of various quirky/kinky types of sex that heterosexuals with twisted minds/virtues indulge in regularly as well). Then there is the anti-Homosexuality Bill ¨part¨ about spending LIFE IN PRISON for citizens who are ¨repeat offenders¨ of having sex with like minded/consenting adults! The ¨repeating of acts of love¨ would also be included in JAILTIME but not for heterosexuals. Priests, spiritual confidants, landlords, teachers and couselors who know YOU ARE GAY are to be sent to JAIL if they don´t report LGBT brothers and sisters within 24 hours...you wanna know why they are growing NUTS in Uganda? The population is being incited to fear and hate LGBT Christians and other Ugandan brothers and sisters.

After viewing the whole ugly fear and hatedriven lieing mess for a lifetime (from the inside/receivingside of the longtime/endless ¨hate/discrimination campaign¨) worldwide, I will offer a couple of observations:

The thing I noticed first, even as a small child, was that OFTEN people would ¨do¨ things differently than they said they ¨do¨...HARK, they were dishonest with themselves and others. Amazing, I had many glimpses of human nature and often it was of the ¨sexual¨ kind. Some I saw first hand. Some I turned my head away from in fear or disgust. Also I often noted prejudice against people of color too when I was instructed that we ALL were created equal, and are equal, what was that?. A remarkable Christian deceit was obvious in my little opinion as they hung black Americans from trees in the South I was told. On my travels to that part of the country there were signs that instructed we ¨White People¨ where to go to the bathroom or use drinking fountains...seemed odd to me that we ¨white people¨ couldn´t recognize where to ¨go¨...little did I know...little made sense, all wasn´t as it seemed to be for me and other people who were different than me.

HOMOSEXUAL or Heterosexual, not one of us wants CHILDREN ABUSED SEXUALLY! Don´t believe the LIES perpetrated against LGBT citizens, we are NOT RECRUITERS of CHILDREN!

Pediphiles are most often Heterosexual MEN and WOMEN abusing young girls and young men! Stop the lies, get the REAL facts (and legislate LAWS against Pediphiles...we agree)!

I once had a older babysitter who made me, yes forced me, to be her ¨boyfriend¨ and French kissed and have sorta sex over and over again, she was ugly and I hated her...a sad, sick and desperate lady. I was a small child and she a late teen teenager. I knew that she was unwell and I wanted her to stay away from me. I made up a sorta lie, said the babysitter was mean and she never came back after a few of her fantasyfilled ¨dates¨ with me...probably made me into a Gay person...let´s blame her (except I knew I liked boys better already).


Several times, as a child, I noticed my ¨integrated¨ neighborhood had childhood games of ¨Playing Doctor¨ were little more than getting down to the sexual aspects of one another...a innocent game of share and show sometimes boldly and sometimes shyly (you know, like human beings)...but always clandestine, always guiltfilled and under the radar...we always knew we were doing something ¨wrong¨ and would get in trouble if caught in the examining room. What could that ¨wrong¨ be? It wasn´t stealing, it rarely was coveting and it certainly wasn´t murdering one another and we didn´t know how to SWEAR AT GOD. Our wrong was that we were sexual human beings and we ALL definitely had our special preferences and interests in exploring. Childhood specialities. You see, somewhere in the midst of that childhood mumble jumble of children exploring oneanothers body parts I discovered I liked the boys better than the girls (nobody but me knew) innocent as it all was, I still knew the difference. I knew what pleased me and I thought I was different! I was different! I became my own secret that sometimes I kept even from me.

The hypocrisy and falsehoods began very early for me. Later I found adults like me, full fledged grown ups, like me, we still liked to play ¨doctor¨ clandestinely with EACH OTHER (albeit the exams were far more thorough). WOW, what a relief, there was a whole world of people like me who liked same sex intimacy. We grew up and it was MUCH MORE FUN than playing pretend! I wasn´t weird. I wasn´t strange. I was sexually interested in people like me...whew, adults like me were everywhere even though many lived their sexual lives secretly.


Early in my life I discovered that people often ¨preached¨ one thing and did quite another. Not so much at my house where we lived as sort of a All-American Betty Crocker family but out in the streets, in other Churches, School and amongst the others in the REAL WORLD where deceitful, clandestine deviant behavior ran rampantly. How did I know? I experienced it. I experienced the small intimacies that were SHAMED AND BLAMED when viewed in the ¨light¨...I payed attention to who thought/taught what was ¨right¨ and who did ¨wrong¨ and played pretend that *it* never happened...yes, even as a small child I noticed people had a sort of sexual amnesia, a tendency to be sexual, nervously joke about sex, sneak around, ridicule others (whenever possible) and take the FOCUS OFF THEMSELVES (where mostly it belonged)! It didn´t matter WHERE it happened, the World was filled with human beings that had all sorts of guilt and guilty reactions/ideas about sex and particularly nasty reactions when threatened to be exposed regarding their OWN DENIAL of SEXUAL REALITY! Note the Bishop of Rome and his legions of ¨invisible¨ LGBT clergy.

So the insanity continues. The lies. The Pretend. The Denial. The Anger. The Lashing Out! The Persecution! The Demeaning! The Shame! The Blame! The DEFLECTING of taking responsibility for ones OWN sexual actions!

The sexual insanity that seems to get worse everyday amongst the religious zealots and politicos like the Honourable Benson Obua Ogwal, of the Parliament of Uganda and
who are hyped-up by hate-mongering clergy and discredited/faux ¨scientific LGBT sex experts¨ HERE . MP Obua Ogwal will grasp at fantasy and lies to avoid REALITY! To make his ¨case¨ against LGBT Christians/others seem valid and just. The sexual insanity seems to work some fundamentalist folks into great fits of MADNESS while trying ever so hard to find LGBT family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances to SHAME, BLAME, SAVE, PAY-OFF and/or RE-PROPAGATE (redo inside and out when it is THEY who badly need spiritual HELP when determining right vs. wrong)! If all rehabilitation to their madly imagined SEXUAL CONDITION of ¨correct and holy¨ universal heterosexuality FAILS, well, they will kill LGBT Christians and others. Kill us because they are ill-informed, scared, popular bigots, and blowhards who lead their country with HATE...they hate being wrong period but on the subject of human sexuality they will go further and not-so-honorably-kill their brothers and sisters. ¨Honor killing in the name of a God who LOVES all of Gods BELOVED children. Insanity at Church. GENOCIDE for Christ (and re-election next year)!


When are we going to have a moment of clarity? When is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams going to provide leadership based on Loving God and Loving one another and speak out STRONGLY against abuse, violence, fear and hate? When will we see the end to the massive hate promotion and anti-Homosexual GENOCIDE that is featured/encouraged as serious ¨legislation¨ and debated (like the topic was normal) at some of the most vile and corrupt cultures in the World today? Cultures that are Provinces at The Anglican Communion. Uganda, Nigeria, The West Indies (Jamaica), Rwanda (very experienced, recently, in the evil act of GENOCIDE and yet they go back for more demonizing of fellow citizens YESTERDAY and TODAY).


Archbishop Rowan Williams and ALL Bishops, Clergy and Laity:
Please help restore love, peace, good-will and SANITY to everyday life at ALL Provinces at the Anglican Communion/beyond.

Lord, hear my prayer (the answers will come, if we want them)

*You´re welcome to join in and share your opinions. Simply ¨comment¨ if you´re willing to speak in the ¨first person¨ regarding your REAL life experience(s) with Human Sexuality...I will delete bigots who pontificate with Selective Scriptural ¨passages¨ and other obnoxious/murder-mongering hate mail.



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NO MORE SECRETS! Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, speak against proposed SHARIA-LIKE law in UGANDA!

Dr. Rowan Williams and Anglican Primates/Bishops there is a anti-Homosexuality GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN gaining strength at various Provinces of the Anglican Communion! What exactly will YOU do to save LGBT Anglicans/others from MURDER and/or PERSECUTION in Uganda HERE , Jamaica HERE, Nigeria HERE , Rwanda HERE. Africa faces a new era of anti-Gay laws HERE promoted by fundamentalist ¨Christian¨ American/Australian and English extremist ¨groups¨ who are increasingly spreading lies and bigotry around along with lots of MONEY?

What will you do to stop this wave of HATE, demonizing and OUTCASTING at The Anglican Communion? Do you think it is time that you had a real, and not subtle or ¨careful¨, conversation about LGBT Anglicans and OUR REALITY...you know, the famous ¨Listening¨ that you have a ¨commision to monitor¨ but the ¨Listening¨ doesn´t exist where fanatic extremism and outright LIES and other forms of falseness (bribes, purjery, threats) exist against LGBT Christians/others. Time to get down to the REAL, and uncomfortable, business of HUMAN SEXUALITY and bring ¨everyone up to speed¨ on the realities vs. deception (self and the preaching of MORAL UNTRUTH to others).

Archbishop of Canterbury and Primates at the Anglican Communion and ALL ANGLICAN BISHOPS please start facing the STARK UGLY TRUTH about the ¨shocking realities¨ of what/who is infecting some of the clergy and laity at the Anglican Communion!

Ms Marie Papworth
Press Secretary
Lambeth Palace
London
SE1 7JU

November 2, 2009, I wrote a NOTE to Dr. Rowan Williams and TODAY a response arrived from Marie Papworth, Press Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Lambeth Palace, London.

My Name/Note:Leonardo Ricardo
LeonardoRicardoSanto@gmail.com
Sent: 02 November 2009 20:17

Dear Dr. Williams,

Immediately. Yes, immediately take a position against the deadly/reckless Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, pending before the Parliament of Uganda...this matter ought be a EMERGENCY MEETING topic of your Primates Council since our Provinces in Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya offer LGBT Anglicans NOTHING in terms of holy ministry...there is a POGROM taking place, wake up...shame on you, again and again for violating the trust and ¨first amongst equals¨ leadership responsibility that has been gifted to you at The Body of Christ!

RESPONSE from LAMBETH PALACE: Today, December 15, 2009

Dear Mr Ricardo,

¨Thank you for your message and for taking the trouble to write about this deeply painful issue.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is very clear that the Private Member’s Bill being discussed in Uganda as drafted is entirely unacceptable from a pastoral, moral and legal point of view. It is a cause of deep concern, fear and, to many, even outrage. The Archbishop has publicly stated that “the proposed legislation is of shocking severity and I can’t see how it can be supported by any Anglican who is committed to what the Communion has said in recent decades”.

For its part the Church of Uganda has clearly restated its opposition to the death penalty. As the Ugandan Church continues to formulate its position on the bill as a whole, the Archbishop has been working intensively behind the scenes (over the past weeks) to ensure that there is clarity on how the proposed bill is contrary to Anglican teaching.¨

Marie Papworth
Press Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, London, SE1 7JU,
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CONFIDENTIALITY ALERT: NO MORE SECRETS! NO MORE FOSTERING OF THEOCRACY LAW IN UGANDA and elsewhere!

Dear Marie Papworth
Press Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Lambeth Palace, London, SE1 7JU

Dear Dr. Williams,

I´m not the silent type any longer. I´ve spent decades listening to the bull-crap launched against LGBT Episcopalian/Anglicans and others. I´ve been guilty of listening quietly as friends were verbally assassinated, abused physically and discriminated against...I´ve been known to be a coward, that is, until my beloved loved one of fourteen years was murdered in a crime of hate eleven years ago.

On All Saints day, just past, I took another flowered cross to his tomb.

I´m no longer a coward. I stopped acting like you and ¨being¨ like you over a decade ago. I started taking responsibility for my personal ¨beliving¨ as well as my religious ¨thinking¨ and my everyday actions (especially the ones that harm others directly or indirectly).

As an Episcopalian/Anglican Gay person I suggest that you immediately QUIT taking POTSHOTS at OUR worthy and honorable LGBT sisters and brothers at the BODY of CHRIST...somehow you seem to imagine US to be defiant/noisy rebels and less pius/holy than you. We aren´t very holy I imagine by zealot or snobbish standards, but, in fact, we may be a step ahead in the substantial unanimity holiplace by being in complete agreement with most everyone as the holy spirit worked her way at the convention of the diocese of Los Angeles and beyond at The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion...you know, Bishop Rowan, WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE! When unanimous, everybody is of same ¨informed¨ mind and acting together as one at The Body of Christ without being threatened or intimidated by pontificating preachers with sometimes less-than-perfect/pure hidden personal flawed character driven agendas.

Many sacred fellowships consider unanimous decisions a sign of agreement, solidarity, and not only UNITY but the very voice of God...often, explanations, personal sharing, questioning (self and others) and the answering of ¨sensitive¨ subjects needs to be done to arrive at such a spiritually healthy and holy place as understanding one another, and Gods ¨will¨ for us with better clarity...it´s a process for us and process of healing and growing...it´s informed unanimity and it can´t ever be bulldozed into ¨being¨ by a private club of some +selfserving/selfrighteous elitists and a handful of superstitious/dangerous Primates who refuse to listen to anything but the sound of their own tiresome demanding voices. It´s about caring about others enough to listen to them and learn from them...it´s humility in action.

Please start paying attention to the REALITY of those of us ¨others¨ who love God and also love our neighbors in the spirit of gladness and UNITY in everyday life. Please stop abusing Episcopalian/Anglicans, please stop being snide to Americans and LGBT Christians everywhere...stop it now and start lifting up your head.

These small, but important, REAL actions of ¨informed¨ positiveness resulting in UNITY are being worked out on a person to person basis often with healthy minded non-despotic spiritual guidance and leadership...enlightenment IS occuring. The kind of enlightenment that has been ignored by several religious extremist PRIMATES and by you personally/recently...you, a teacher, a previously trusted leader, a knowledgeable man, a force that aims for wholeness..it is YOU that must make yourself more clear, and be more self-honest and learn how to say NO to bigotry, convulting truth and the generating exclusion at ALL levels of Anglican Communion life.

We´re not afraid to TRUST God and follow Gods ¨will¨ for us and that is the path that we are on...join us, put your fears aside and follow the ministry of inclusion that you once championed...¨ My entire ¨open letter¨ to Dr. Rowan Williams, HERE

·NO MORE DEADLY SILENCE·NO MORE PLAYING PRETEND·NO MORE POLITICAL ANGLING/DENIAL·WE NEED SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AT THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION·

PLEASE Contact: Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates Standing Committee of The Anglican Communion:

Ms Marie Papworth
Press Secretary
Lambeth Palace
London
SE1 7JU
United Kingdom
www.archbishopofcanterbury.org
telephone 020 7898 1200 Ext. 1280

FURTHER NOTE: The ANGLICAN UN, United Nations, HUMAN RIGHTS Observer, Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa from Uganda, has an office and staff provided by the Episcopal Church (USA) at the Church Center 815 Second Avenue, New York, 10017. The direct office line is (001) 212-716- 6263 and the email address unoffice@episcopalchurch.org



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·Thanks to Actualidad Noticias
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·Thanks to Episcopal Cafe, sidebar
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HONESTY, TYRANNY AND UGANDA’S CALAMITY: Genocide in Uganda isn´t ONLY initiated against ¨Homosexual¨ citizens. Shame on David Bahati & Nsaba Buturo!

Milton Allimadi, Lucy Larom from CEGUN (Campaign to End Genocide in Uganda Now), Invisible Children and Ugandan government representatives recently participated in a forum on northern Uganda at the Uganda North American Association (UNAA) convention in Chicago.

‘Internally Displaced.’ As if those individuals had a choice; as if they displaced themselves intentionally to live in those camps for 23 years.

¨How do you willingly go to live in a facility where you know that the assured outcome is death? From lack of sustenance; lack of food; lack of hydration; lack of medical facilities. So let’s stop the nonsense. You know sometimes honesty is good. Let’s be honest. We travelled from allover the world to come here.

So why are we still pretending? Let’s abandon these terminologies of nonsense and let’s deal with the issue head on and recognize it for what it is. The tragedy is not only because of the vicious and brutal Lord’s Resistance Army. If we accept that; it means we are not being honest. We all know that. Even the government officials that are here today. They know that not to be true.

They know that the Uganda government and military are also a problem. So why don’t we recognize that. Why don’t we accept that and be honest about that. [Audience clapping]

Let’s be honest. When you have a tragedy such as the Ugandan situation let’s recognize that the LRA has contributed massively to this calamity; as has the Ugandan government by maintaining those camps for such a long time when everybody knew what the outcome of maintaining people in those kind of living conditions–what the outcome would be...

Let’s be honest. The Ugandan problem is not very peculiar to Uganda after all. In fact, it’s not even a Ugandan problem. Forget about northern Uganda. It’s a problem of lack of accountable leadership in Africa. It’s not unique to Uganda only. Where, rather than building institutions of governance and leadership, we substitute this with one-man or one-party rule.

So, let’s start with presidential term limits. Let’s be honest. It’s a question of illegitimacy of government. And when a government feels that it is not legitimate, it survives by any means necessary...¨

Genocide in Uganda, for the marginalized, the Internally Displaced, the outcasts and SOON for the ¨Homosexuals¨ of Uganda, read the up-to-the-moment coverage, click HERE

Anti-Homosexuality Bill Before Uganda Parliament ¨not needed¨ says President Museveni and World Leaders, read it all, click HERE

·Thanks to Uganda Genocide.info, sidebar
·Thanks to The Chicago UNAA Forum
·Thanks to Campaign to End Genocide in Uganda Now! 2009
·Thanks to Milton Allimadi
·Thanks to Lucy Larom
·Thanks to UWIRE
·Thanks to The Invisible Children of Uganda
·Thanks to Highlights of Genocide in Uganda, 2009
·Thanks to Daily Monitor, Truth Every Day

RUN FOR COVER ARCHBISHOP ROWAN WILLIAMS: The Reverend Waldo (admitted friend of Bishop Robinson) has been elected 8th Bishop of Upper South Carolina!

The Reverend W. Andrew Waldo, who has described Gene Robinson as ´my old friend and mentor´ attracted particular venom from the Right. ¨Much good it did them.¨ GRANDMÈRE MIMI


The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo elected 8th Bishop on the third ballot, The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina

The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo has been rector of Trinity Church, Excelsior, Minnesota, since 1994. He was born in Douglas, Georgia, and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, the second of six children in an Episcopal clergy family. He received his M.Div. from Sewanee, M. Mus. from the New England Conservatory of Music, and B.A. from Whittier College, and is a graduate of Indian Springs Preparatory School, Helena, Alabama. HERE


·Thanks to The Episcopal Church Diocese of Upper South Carolina
·Thanks to Wounded Bird, sidebar
·Thanks to Lapinbizarre, ringside reporting
·Thanks to GRANDMÈRE MIMI

+ROWAN WILLIAMS ALERT: We´ve spent lifetimes listening to evil launched against LGBT Anglicans/others--stop it now! UPDATED 12/13/09

Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, The Anglican Communion

·A Open Letter to ++Rowan·Expanded Saturday December 12th and Sunday, December 13th 2009·

Dear Dr. Williams,

I´m not the silent type any longer. I´ve spent decades listening to the bull-crap launched against LGBT Episcopalian/Anglicans and others. I´ve been guilty of listening quietly as friends were verbally assassinated, abused physically and discriminated against...I´ve been known to be a coward, that is, until my beloved loved one of fourteen years was murdered in a crime of hate eleven years ago.

On All Saints day, just past, I took another flowered cross to his tomb.

I´m no longer a coward. I stopped acting like you and ¨being¨ like you over a decade ago. I started taking responsibility for my personal ¨beliving¨ as well as my religious ¨thinking¨ and my everyday actions (especially the ones that harm others directly or indirectly).

As an Episcopalian/Anglican Gay person I suggest that you immediately QUIT taking POTSHOTS at OUR worthy and honorable LGBT sisters and brothers at the BODY of CHRIST...somehow you seem to imagine US to be defiant/noisy rebels and less pius/holy than you. We aren´t very holy I imagine by zealot or snobbish standards, but, in fact, we may be a step ahead in the substantial unanimity holiplace by being in complete agreement with most everyone as the holy spirit worked her way at the convention of the diocese of Los Angeles and beyond at The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion...you know, Bishop Rowan, WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE! When unanimous, everybody is of same ¨informed¨ mind and acting together as one at The Body of Christ without being threatened or intimidated by pontificating preachers with sometimes less-than-perfect/pure hidden personal flawed character driven agendas.

Many sacred fellowships consider unanimous decisions a sign of agreement, solidarity, and not only UNITY but the very voice of God...often, explanations, personal sharing, questioning (self and others) and the answering of ¨sensitive¨ subjects needs to be done to arrive at such a spiritually healthy and holy place as understanding one another, and Gods ¨will¨ for us with better clarity...it´s a process for us and process of healing and growing...it´s informed unanimity and it can´t ever be bulldozed into ¨being¨ by a private club of some +selfserving/selfrighteous elitists and a handful of superstitious/dangerous Primates who refuse to listen to anything but the sound of their own tiresome demanding voices. It´s about caring about others enough to listen to them and learn from them...it´s humility in action.

Please start paying attention to the REALITY of those of us ¨others¨ who love God and also love our neighbors in the spirit of gladness and UNITY in everyday life. Please stop abusing Episcopalian/Anglicans, please stop being snide to Americans and LGBT Christians everywhere...stop it now and start lifting up your head.

These small, but important, REAL actions of ¨informed¨ positiveness resulting in UNITY are being worked out on a person to person basis often with healthy minded non-despotic spiritual guidance and leadership...enlightenment IS occuring. The kind of enlightenment that has been ignored by several religious extremist PRIMATES and by you personally/recently...you, a teacher, a previously trusted leader, a knowledgeable man, a force that aims for wholeness..it is YOU that must make yourself more clear, and be more self-honest and learn how to say NO to bigotry, convulting truth and the generating exclusion at ALL levels of Anglican Communion life.

We´re not afraid to TRUST God and follow Gods ¨will¨ for us and that is the path that we are on...join us, put your fears aside and follow the ministry of inclusion that you once championed.

Dr. Williams, along the lines of playing PRETEND and operating in a quasi-spiritual WORLD of DENIAL and INTIMIDATION (that would be, as opposed to living in reality and recognizing that we ALL need spiritual counseling and help with our individual character/sin ¨issues¨ as those ¨issues¨ and ¨choice making¨ are presented to us in our Christian lives) I have some things to get off my chest.

·I will tell you that playing giftie exchange and kissyface with the current, and dangerous/manipulative, bishop of Rome is disgusting, distracting, seemingly ecumenically supportive but way beneath your honorable station to STAND with ALL ANGLICANS as Archbishop of Canterbury.

·Your insulting, silent=codependent=snitty=cowardly rejection of The Right Reverend Eva Brunne´s consecration as Bishop of Stockholm, The Church of Sweden, was a ¨perverted¨ action and misguided Church political scheming.

Physical Actions/non-action, done by you, Archbishop of Canterbury, that are NOT loving, not manly, not attractive or honorable/desireable when seeking to LOVE GOD and Gods marginalized.

You were chosen, by the British, to be our most visiable spiritual leader at The Anglican Communion. YOU have chosen to be a leader who shows great weakness while hiding and covering yourself in some kind of lofty intellectual selective scriptural/Church traditional overgarbed PAGENTRY that has NOTHING to do with being of service to those of us who LOOK FOR spiritual guidance and HELP at the Anglican Communion...that would be those of us in the everyday trenches of life who reach for spiritual guidance that will allow us to serve where we are badly needed (and wanted). You know, the laity, the common person, the frocked and unfrocked clergy serving one another whenever/wherever we can.

LGBT and Heterosexual Anglican/Christian/other lives were/are in danger.

In Jamaica DURING the ACC Meeting (Jamaica IS the murder hate crime capital of the Western Hemisphere) you ignored the grief around you, you denied the vileness and unhealty hate and remained speechless/silent in respect to the unjust bloodletting all around you as you pushed for more PUNISHMENT in the content of Part 4, Anglican Communion Covenant (a invention of dangerous Bishop Gomez, retired Primate of the hate/fear encouraged Province of West Indies/Jamaica).

Many LGBT Anglicans/others have been killed this year and last including in England (a large increase this year) and even Michael Causners bludgeoned to death murder, at Liverpool and DURING The Lambeth Conference (went ignored by you as you chatted on and on and on about things that most of us couldn´t understand but knew encouraged yet MORE power for Bishops who have yet to prove their worthiness on the subjects of Unity, Gods Love/Loving thy neighbor and World Peace) that you hosted while excluding +Gene Robinson of The Episcopal Church.

+Rowan, what many see in you, I think--although this letter is ONLY from me and reveals my thoughts about you--is a privileged ¨first amongst us¨ person who REFUSES to USE your Godgiven intellect/good sense and skills for educating and the enlightening ALL of the WE and faithful others.

·You have chosen the softer, yet more hardheaded, way, while no doubt using some kind of codependent compassionate thinking/logic that would keep the less educated unchallenged/unruffled and less called to ¨listening¨ as a sign of disrespectful respect on your part.

·You enable continous loyalty=encouragement to Provincial +despots who ignore or plot destruction against you (Nigerian/Ugandan Gafcon·FREEBEE· meet-up/conning fab comes to mind as the same disrespectful ¨+operators¨ boycotted The Lambeth Conference) and others of us at The Anglican Communion. You have found your very own version of a ¨crucified place¨ and I think it is time for you to climb down and start leading us into a NEW Anglican/other world era of gracious acceptance of others filled with PEACE and UNITY

You´ve had many ¨wake up¨ calls, yet you are drowzy when confronted by the REAL abusers and exploiters of others.

You have shown absolute arrogance to Episcopalians and exhibited little respect for our polity (and generally Anglicans in The Western Hemisphere and parts of the U.K.) and our Bishop V.Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. You pander to those who would kill, jail and castigate him, me and tens of thousands of others (ramrodding +Drexels Covenant Inquisition) as they/we reach out to serve God at ALL levels of Public and Churchlife (regardless of what you, +Akinola, +Orombi, +Gomez may think OUR TRUE character/integrity and ¨holy¨ worth actually IS).

YOU have judged us without knowing us, you have just now attempted to violate the spiritual worthiness of one of our Bishop-elect. You have turned your head to NOT see the dishonesty amongst some of the PRIMATES and the vicious excluders. You have played favorites.

You have played PRETEND when overwhelmed with obvious bigotry running rampant at various parts of The Anglican Communion where OUR PEOPLE are abused, harmed and live in constant fear and dread for their LIVES.

You, +Rowan, have taken the Commandments and reshaped them for what you think your immediate need of them may be...you keep conservatives and their hate/exclusion alive while avoiding those who EMBRACE everyone including the excluders. Again, your way is not humble, your way lacks humility as others are abused...it is not up to you to make decisions, or NOT TAKE THEM, that ultimately may KILL OTHER Anglicans. Often REAL ANGLICANS are abused because of your inability to speak out TRUTH and object OPENLY to LIES against other human beings...you attempt to save ¨face¨ while pushing other ¨faces¨ down and into the mud because WE don´t do as you threaten that we must commit to do to make your life easier.

Building love, tolerance and acceptance for one another is hard work!

You have drifted far away from the great challenge.

+Rowan Williams, leave off attacking The Reverend Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, her person, her confirmation and her consecration (unless invited or you show some willingness to become a full fledged welcoming Anglican)...you have already attempted to contaminate her election. Please STOP trying to infect others with your little Faith in LGBT people as proven by your shabby treatment of OUR brother The Very Reverend Jeffery John.

It is clear to me, as I speak only for me, that you are a untrustworthy spiritual counselor nor a real friend in Christ for ALL Episcopalians/Anglicans at The Body of Christ. You´ve taken the easy way, even when frowning your ¨understanding¨, and have harmed true Communion fellowship wherever you go by NOT SPEAKING OUT against greed, theiving, lies and the true responsible acts of love/inclusion at the Communion...you have NOT helped feed the flock with wisdom for moral gain...you have sometimes allowed inhumane acts of superstitiousness to reign, ignored. Repent your wrong doing, it´s not too late (for any of us).

Lord have mercy on ALL of us at The Anglican Communion

UPDATE 12/11/09: Anti-Homosexuality Bill before UGANDA Parliament NOT NEEDED says President Museveni and World Leaders!

Uganda: Civil Society Condemns Anti-Gay Bill

“Uganda today stands at a crossroads,” the coalition adds. “We can either turn further towards an agenda of divisionism and discrimination, and pay the costs in terms of internal suppression of our own citizens coupled with international isolation and marginalization, or we can embrace diversity, human rights and constitutionalism.” All Africa, HERE

The Civil Society Coalition says in its statement that the bill, “while claiming to protect the African traditional family… fails to recognise the rich diversity of those family structures in our multiple traditions. By mounting an attack on the most fundamental principle of the human rights framework… it is also mounting an attack on some of the most cherished dimensions of African culture.”

Uganda: NATIONAL GOVERNMENT JOINS Civil Society Condemns Anti-Gay Bill

President Yoweri Museveni is asked to protect ¨fundamental principles of human rights¨

BIG NEWS--NOW A AUTHORIZED WORD FROM PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI Office of the President, Government of Uganda Media Centre, click HERE ALERT, this posting from the office of the President of Uganda at Uganda Media Center was taken down, however, here is the complete copy before it was removed and reflects the offical position of President Yoweri Museveni:

FURTHER NOTE/ATTENTION (Friday): Link back up at Uganda Media Centre and can be found HERE

Homosexuality: We Can Still Avoid Foreign Bad Press

By Obed K Katureebe

¨The Anti-Homosexual Bill 2009, yet to be tabled on the floor of parliament, has attracted unnecessary hullabaloo. Some western countries, with their characteristic condescending attitude, are already threatening to cut aid if that bill is passed into law.

The bill is sponsored by Hon. David Bahati, the Ndorwa West County MP, as a private member’s bill. If passed into law, it will be able to establish a comprehensive consolidated legislation to protect the traditional family by prohibiting any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex.

The bill also aims at strengthening the nation’s capacity to deal with emerging internal and external threats to the traditional heterosexual family.

According to Hon. Bahati, there is need to protect the children and youth of Uganda who are made vulnerable to sexual abuse and deviation as a result of cultural changes, uncensored information technologies, parentless child developmental settings and increasing attempts by homosexual to raise children in homosexual relationships through adoption, foster care or otherwise.

Apparently, according to Bahati, the proposed legislation is designed to fill the gaps in the provisions of other laws in Uganda like the Penal Code Act.

Hon. Bahati has a strong point. However, I personally think that there is no need to have a fresh legislation on such unnatural offences. What Hon. Bahati should have emphasized is to improve the penal code just to widen the definition already existing.

According to the Penal Code Act (cap 120), any person who permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, commits an offense and is liable to imprisonment for life. There is no question about that homosexuality, long regarded as taboo (culturally and socially) in the highly-religious society of Uganda, has of recent been raising its head and profile in the field of public debate.

No longer content to remain in the closet, proponents of homosexuality and lesbianism are actively seeking to be heard. They are up against an uphill task as they are pitched not only against culture and religion but against public perception of morality.

What is required at this moment is to let all Ugandans be rational and put their views across before parliament moves to debate the contents of the bill. Calls by rights organisations that Uganda's obligations under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights would be undermined are uncalled for.

The siege the country seems to be facing from these rights groups is misplaced. The absurdity of it all is even to go to the extent of branding ‘the regime in Kampala’ as a fascist establishment. Africans have an aggregated value system and retain a right to say 'no' to a movement whose ultimate outcome will be the destruction of the family; the basic social cultural unit.

The promoters of homosexuality, who happens to have vast resources at their disposal and a global reach, have confused human rights groups to portray homosexuality as a human rights issue. But rights must be based on values.

However, the country should recognise the impressionable body politic and civil society groups in developed economies of the west. With their clever portrayal of the fight against homosexuality as a human rights abuse, the attachment of the adjectives like fascist to regime may lead to policy reviews.

Which is why I call on the government to avoid the bad press. Since homosexuality is already criminalised in Uganda, one wonder whether parliament is utilising its time optimally by focusing on homosexuality when the majority of our people are suffering from hunger, lack of access to water and disease and collapsing infrastructure.

Moreover, as pointed out by the gay lobbyists, same sex marriage is not a common social practice in Uganda therefore legislating against it is redundant and is likely to attack more attention to them. Perhaps parliament should be spending its time on real issues that impact on the lives of long-suffering Ugandans.

As a country, let us also engage other remedial institutions to try and counter this vice that is slowly but steadily coming into our lives. We ought to know that homosexuality community across the world is now 10% of the world population. Since we are part of the global community how feasible would it be to kill off 10% of the population.

As research has shown homosexuality is not a mental illness symptomatic of arrested development or that gays desires are genetic or hormonal in origin and that there is no choice involved. Homosexual behavior is learned. According to research by Dr. Cameron, no scientific research has found provable biological or genetic differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals that were not caused by their behavior. Dr. Cameron is the chairman Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, USA.¨
ENDS

CONCLUSION FROM PRESIDENT MUSEVENI´S NEWEST AMERICAN HOMOSEXUALITY ¨EXPERT¨

¨As research has shown homosexuality is not a mental illness symptomatic of arrested development or that gays desires are genetic or hormonal in origin and that there is no choice involved. Homosexual behavior is learned. According to research by Dr. Cameron (universally discredited by professional top-level/prestiges psychiatric societies/LR), no scientific research has found provable biological or genetic differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals that were not caused by their behavior. Dr. Cameron is the chairman Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, USA.¨

Pastor Rick Warren, American Spiritual Advisor who is active in Uganda
Anti-gay preacher Rick Warren finally speaks out AGAINST Uganda law

"The potential law is unjust, extreme and un-Christian toward homosexuals. . . all life, no matter how humble or broken, whether unborn or dying, is precious to God." HERE

Ugandan MP, David Bahati DEFENDS “Kill Gays” Bill

David Bahati, Member of Ugandan Parliament

¨Ugandan Member of Parliament David Bahati, who introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Act into Parliament, appeared on the BBC’s Focus On Africa program to talk about his handiwork. Bahati appears not to have gotten the memo about the death penalty being eliminated or the trial balloon of dropping the whole bill that was floated on the Uganda government’s official Media Centre web site. Bahati remained firmly behind the bill, saying that it is all about responding to child sexual abuse...¨ By Jim Burroway HERE

·LET GO, MP BAHATI!

·LET the MURDEROUS and convulted anti-LGBT BILL GO!

·Initiate/table HATE CRIME and anti-ABUSE--Children and ALL others--proper/sane legislation in Uganda at Parliament!

·Honorable David Bahati, Be responsible and PROTECT UGANDAS CITIZENS FROM REAL EVIL and resist listening to LIES fabricated by the U.S. ¨Family¨ of American fundamentalist extremists!

·Member of Ugandan Parliament David Bahati, if you wish to submit NEW legislation regarding CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, please do so...everyone, including LGBT people, welcome the REAL NEED for that!

·MP Bahati, you ought consider including the REAL and SERIOUS problems and moral issues into NEW anti-HATE CRIME LEGISLATION that would protect ABUSED Heterosexual Women and Children, end Sex Slavery, stop Human Sacrifices and prohibit the outcasting of LGBT citizens which is currently a social/spiritualike epidemic and vile illness promoted in Uganda by YOU and your misinformed accomplices!

More on Bahati´s Homosexual GENOCIDE Obsession

MP David Bahati, foreground, surrounded by other members of his bewitched cluster/coven of religious zealouts at the Parliament of Uganda who demand BLOOD SACRIFICE of LGBT Ugandans (while being ¨hyped¨ with prayer by a fundamentalist, White, irresponsible preacher flown in from Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.)

¨Bahati is an ignorant, blood-thirsty tyrant who should be staunchly and forcefully opposed by anyone who cares about human rights. And Cohen does, as Rachel Maddow said last week, have blood on his hands. He and everyone associated with his International Healing Foundation is a would-be accomplice to death squads. They should be treated accordingly. It is amazing that the lives of GLBT Ugandans hang in the balance because of an idiotic book printed by an obvious madman like Cohen...¨Uganda Murder-Bill Sponsor: ‘We Will Not Water-Down Bill’, read it all, click HERE

UPDATED FRIDAY NIGHT 12/11/2009

Op-Ed In Ugandan Gov’t Newspaper: “Parliament Should Not Pass This Bill” HERE

UPDATED SATURDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 12, 2009

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor Rowan Williams CONDEMNS Ugandan anti-Homosexuality Bill after weeks of pressure

¨The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has for the first time publicly expressed his opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill recently proposed in Uganda. His statement follows weeks of pressure, numerous calls for him to speak out and a petition signed by thousands urging him to condemn the Bill.

His office had previously said that he would not be commenting on the issue in public, but today (12 December), Williams said that the Bill was of “shocking severity” and that he could not see how any Anglican could support it...¨ read his entire statement from Ekklesia, HERE

UPDATED SATURDAY NIGHT 12/12/2009

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CONDEMNS UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL

“The President strongly opposes efforts, such as the draft law pending in Uganda, that would criminalize homosexuality and move against the tide of history,”The Advocate, read it all, click HERE

·Thanks to New Vision (Ugandan Government Newspaper)
·Thanks to John Nagenda, Senior Advisor to President Museveni
·Thanks to Ekklesia, sidebar
·Thanks to All Africa, sidebar
·Thanks to President Museveni,Uganda
·Thanks to Civil Society Coalition
·Thanks to U.S.Secretary of State Clinton
·Thanks to Human Rights Coalition
·Thanks to Pink News U.K., sidebar
·Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin, sidebar
·Thanks to Jim Burroway
·Thanks to Gay Uganda, sidebar
·Thanks to Media Centre, President of Uganda
·Thanks to Jessica Green
·Thanks to Obed K Katureebe
·Thanks to The Archbishop of Canterbury
·Thanks to Dr. Rowan Williams, Anglican Communion
·Thanks to U.S. President Barack Obama
·Thanks to Rachel Maddow
·Thanks to By Kerry Eleveld
·Thanks to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
·Thanks to The Advocate
·Thanks to The Government of Sweden
·Thanks to Truth Wins Out
·Thanks to Wayne Besen
·Thanks to The Government of France
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