Father Jake Stops the World: Uganda World Prayer Day/UPDATED, Wednesday November 18, 2009

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH·

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM CANTERBURY·

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM YORK·

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM UGANDA·

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM KENYA·

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON OF PROPOSED ANGLICAN COMMUNION COVENANT·

·A DEADLY SILENCE FROM NIGERIA·

·SILENCE IS A SIN OF OMISSION WHEN HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING ABUSED·

LORD HAVE MERCY

Father Jake Stops the World: Uganda World Prayer Day, HERE

UPDATED: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2009

¨The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, has made it clear that he will make no comment on the Bill, but pressure is growing on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to make a statement.

“I am sure that the vast majority of Christians - who hold a range of views on sexual ethics - will be horrified by the extreme and violent measures proposed in this Bill” said Symon Hill, associate director of the religion and society thinktank Ekklesia.

“By speaking out, it is possible to expose the hollowness of the religious rhetoric used by the Bill's supporters,” he added, “Given the place of Anglicanism in Ugandan life, it would be right and proper for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to end his silence and to oppose the bill in public.
HERE

The online petition urging Rowan Williams and other Christian leaders to oppose the Bill can be found at HERE

HATE OF GAY--UGANDAN STYLE

¨Check out the post. And, they have kind of picked out some of the most offensive posts and shown them to the world.
Poor Ugandan haters. They believe that, in the name of Christ, they can hate like that right out there in the world.

Well, on my part, I am really glad that these guys are coming out and speaking the facts as they see them. They are my countrymates. For too long we gay people have been bashed by these hate mongers... It is good that they come out and be shamed for what they are! Each of those groups has more than 1000 fans, if I remember well.¨ HERE

ANGLICAN COMMUNION HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVER AT THE UNITED NATIONS

Ugandan Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa, the former United Nations Africa coordinator of the Millennium Development Goals, accepted the call to be the next Anglican Observer at the United Nations in October last year. Speaking last year for ACNS, Hellen said she hopes to strengthen the rich contribution of the Anglican Communion into the political hubs at the United Nations and combine that with the UN committees in Geneva that specialise in humanitarian work. “I am keen to use my representative position to focus on War, Peace and promote diplomatic means of diffusing tensions and resolving conflicts," she said, "and from my ecumenical experience, promote relationships between member churches."

The UN Observer, Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa from Uganda, has an office 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

The UN web-pages can be found on the main Anglican Communion website - www.anglicancommunion.org/un/

Clarifying What Is Bigotry

¨The real bigot openly works for the establishment of state religion — his or her religion, naturally. Whether as a voter or lobbyist or legislator or judge or media person, he or she aims to see draconian laws passed that would deprive the disapprovees of their civil rights. In the name of state religion, the bigot wants to harass them, silence them, beat up on them, jail them, even torture them and kill them, if possible. Their mission statements make it very clear that this is what they aim to do.¨ HERE

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·Thanks to Anglican Communion News
·Thanks to Patricia Nell Warren
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U.N. ANGLICAN OBSERVER: Ugandan Hellen Grace Akwii-Wangus and others “blatant disregard for human rights”

U.N. ANGLICAN OBSERVER: Ugandan Hellen Grace Akwii-Wangus (reports to The Anglican Consultative Council) and others seemingly have a very VERY SELECTIVE and “blatant disregard for human rights” in Uganda, Nigeria and beyond!

The Most Reverend Uganda born John Sentamu, Lord Archbishop of York, Church of England, Anglican Communion has ¨no statement on the anti-LGBT Law in Uganda¨ (the pending law that his Mega 'Rubaga Miracle Cathedral' Church Pastor Robert Kayanja, his BLOOD BROTHER HERE would be accused of violating and facing execution or life imprisonment, like regular citizens, if he didn´t have officials in High Places to let him off the hook).

Archbishop Sentamu, has a blatant ¨disregard for others¨ in Uganda,¨ HERE

Dear Hellen Grace Akwii-Wangusa, Archbishop Rowan and Paul (and Archbishop of York too)...a BIG Ugandan/Nigerian question: What do you imagine they do with ¨BOYS and GIRLS for SEX¨ after they SELL THEM?

HOW ABOUT DEALING WITH REAL MORAL ISSUES INSTEAD OF IGNORING THE VILE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN UGANDA AND NIGERIA THAT force HONORABLE and NOTABLE Anglican LGBTs ¨citizens¨ UNDERGROUND at Church? Aren´t the SEX SLAVERY customers mostly Northern European and Asian HETEROSEXUALS? Let´s get down to the REAL FACTS and quit blaming your LGBT brothers, sisters, friends, family and other CHRISTIANS at CHURCH! Quit making lies up to fascilitate your anti-LGBT HATE legislation with fear-mongering!

HELLO, ARCHBISHOP ROWAN, JOHN AND PAUL, IT IS YOUR MORAL DUTY TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST MURDEROUS HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNS AGAINST ALL HUMAN BEINGS everywhere/anywhere!

You dare to have Helen Grace Awaii-Wangusa, UGANDA, represent the Anglican Communion as a ´champion´ United Nations observer on HUMAN RIGHTS as HER PROVINCIAL ANGLICAN LEADERSHIP currently aims to KILL LGBT Anglicans in Uganda?

Makes ¨human trafficking¨ look like a SUNDAY (after Church of course) walk in the Park!

¨Trafficking of human beings, though banned by international and national law, is flourishing, some 40 participants learned at a consultation organised by the Office of the Anglican United Nations Observer, Hellen Grace Akwii-Wangusa, in New York, and funded by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Paul Kwong of Hong Kong.

They were told that the seemingly insatiable use of both young women and boys for sex, for labour and for organs - is being fuelled by greed, ignorance, and unbearable choices made out of desperate need.

Participants faced a barrage of statistics gathered by experts and listened to heart-breaking stories shared by survivors who had become 'wounded healers'.

Delegates to the consultation included Anglicans from 12 provinces – They were told that the seemingly insatiable use of both young women and boys for sex, for labour and for organs - is being fuelled by greed, ignorance, and unbearable choices made out of desperate need.

Participants faced a barrage of statistics gathered by experts and listened to heart-breaking stories shared by survivors who had become 'wounded healers'.

Delegates to the consultation included Anglicans from 12 provinces – Korea, Japan, Philippines, England, Canada, USA, Mexico, Kenya, North India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong.¨

WHERE IS UGANDA, WHERE IS NIGERIA at this gathering of ANGLICAN COMMUNION members with their ¨barrage of statistics gathered by experts and listened to heart-breaking stories shared by survivors¨...¨survivors¨ who are very often Ugandan and Nigerian? HERE

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·Thanks to The United Nations
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ARCHBISHOPS WILLIAMS/SENTAMU: We are “dismayed and shocked¨ at your silence regarding the anti-LGBT legislation in UGANDA!

“A deafening silence comes from the Anglican Church in Britain towards the proposed draconian private members Bill currently before the Ugandan Parliament regarding homosexuality”
Ekklesia
Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and ¨First amongst equals¨ at The Anglican Communion

“If ever there was a time for the Archbishops to speak out to protect human rights, is this not it?”

Reverend Sharon Ferguson, Chief Executive of LGCM said she was “dismayed and shocked at this silence from the Archbishops regarding this flagrant vilification of LGBT people in Uganda.”

¨While some Anglican primates, such as Archbishop Peter Akinola, have refused to condemn physical assaults on gay people, most of those who oppose homosexual practice insist that they do not believe in persecuting gay people. The extent to which they speak out on the Ugandan situation is likely to be seen by many as a measure of their sincerity.¨ HERE

The Most Reverend John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, “will not be making a statement on this issue”.

¨The Archbishop of York, who grew up in rural Uganda, has said that he intends to stay silent about proposed legislation in the country which would introduce the death penalty for certain consensual homosexual acts.¨

Ugandan ´Mega Church´Pastor Robert Kayanja, Brother of John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

¨Pastor Kayanja is very, very strong. His is 'Rubaga Miracle Cathedral'... and it is a mega church. He has recently opened a TV station in Uganda. Christian. And his ministry spans the earth. Yes, it does. He has good connections with the First Family, and has given of his accumulating wealth, judiciously. I mean, he has been giving to the police. Gifts of appreciation.¨ HERE

¨Kampala — THE first half of this year left its mark in the history of Uganda's Born-again church. Renowned pastor, Robert Kayanja, was accused of sodomy.

A group of five pastors and their colleagues pinned the Rubaga Miracle Centre cleric but Kayanja denied the allegations, calling them mudslinging.

The accusers were pastors Michael Kyazze, Martin Ssempa, Solomon Male, Kayiira and Semujju.¨ HERE

¨End result, the police exhonerated Pastor Kayanja, who continues his ministry. The other pastors are in court, for defamation, and other things.... Yeah, they actually are alleged to have given money to some young men to accuse Kayanja of having been gay.¨

The same Kayanja who is brother to Archbishop of York Sentamu.

Small world, isnt it?

UPDATE: Anglican Communion’s Tangled Connections To Uganda’s Anti-Gay Pogrom

¨There has been considerable consternation over the worldwide Anglican Communion’s silence on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that is now before Uganda’s Parliament. That bill would reaffirm a penalty of life imprisonment for anyone convicted of being gay and impose the death penalty under certain circumstances.

It would also criminalize all advocacy on behalf of LGBT citizens, and impose criminal penalties on family, friends, teachers, counselors and ministers who fail to report LGBT persons to the police.¨
HERE

FURTHER UPDATE FROM INTEGRITY U.S.A.:

¨The new bill would outlaw Integrity Uganda and would put clergy, physicians and relatives who support their gay and lesbian neighbors and family members at risk for severe fines and possible imprisonment. The proposed law may mean neighbors who do not inform on each other for supporting LGBT civil rights are subject to punishment. We have not seen such a draconian system of isolation and institutional rejection of a minority community in Uganda since the anti Jewish laws passed by the Third Reich.¨ HERE


Ugandan President Museveni has joined the anti-gay crusade, saying he had received reports suggesting that “European homosexuals” had launched a recruitment drive in Africa.HERE

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·Thanks to Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, Uganda
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ATTENTION GREG VENABLES: An Argentine judge has granted a homosexual couple permission to get married

Presiding Bishop Greg Venables, a British Anglican priest, Bishop of Argentina and opposed to ¨Gay Marriage¨ and LGBT Christians participating at all levels of Churchlife

DON´T CRY FOR ARGENTINA!

Dear Bishop Greg,

While you were away, and then away again and then after you became way over your head recruiting/conjuring up ill for ¨Gay¨ Christians/others with like minded anti-LGBT Anglicans at Gafcon and the The Global South ¨intrigues¨ (where your dangerous/superstitious buddies +Akinola and +Orombi of Nigeria/Uganda supported draconian legislation against LGBT Christians and others) you were apparently NOT MISSED in ARGENTINA!

Holy Vaca, oh me, oh my, what to do? Your ministry of abominating/demonizing and marginalizing others and your not-so-sacred ¨word¨ has gone unheeded (in fact, rejected completely down Conealone way).

Argentines apparently didn´t notice your absense in Buenos Aires even earlier on Bishop Greg when it became the region's first city to approve civil unions between same sex couples in 2002...but you knew that already, didn´t ye Greg? The Christians/others in Argentina simply weren´t interested in the fear and hate and everyday bigotry and exclusion that you´ve been peddling at your home Province Church and abroad. No sale. No soap. No Pesos. No Monedas.

BREAKING NEWS especially for Marriage Equality enthusiasts and +Greg and his destructive Gafcon accomplices:

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has granted a homosexual couple permission to get married, setting a precedent that could pave the way for the Catholic country to become the first in Latin America to allow same-sex marriage.¨ read it all, click HERE


But the best quote of the day went to the mayor of Buenos Aires, who despite being part of a political party that is often reticent on LGBT rights, said that he would not stop the judge's ruling from taking effect:

"The world is heading in this direction," said Mayor Mauricio Macri. "What we have to learn is to live in liberty without violating the rights of others." read it all, click HERE

UPDATE: BUENOS AIRES ISSUES FIRST GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE FOLLOWING LAST WEEKS HISTORIC COURT RULING,¨ click HERE

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Andrew Mwenda ROARS: ¨Christian Hypocrisy is driving most of our gay bashers in Uganda¨

Andrew Mwenda, tackles the lion in his den and takes on the Bahati bill, and does logical reasoning a favor. Gay Uganda


·First Martin Mwenda tackles the Christian hypocrisy that is driving most of our gay bashers in the country·

"a friend told me recently: “I think all homos must be killed. My strong Christian values prohibit me from tolerating this evil.”" adding, for good measure, "My friend takes pride in “laying” girls. When I asked him why his Christian faith does not stop him from fornication, he went silent."

·Second Martin Mwenda makes the point that "The state should not be used to enforce God’s will. Nor should Martin Sempa and Nsaba Buturo constitute themselves into a religious police to enforce it¨·

"It would therefore be dangerous for the state to visit people’s bedrooms every night to ensure that sex is enjoyed only through the legislated style. For example, should the government investigate whether Bahati performs oral sex or whether Buturo masturbates?"

¨Bravo Mwenda, Bravo, you have done it again, swimming against the tide, but this time, defending homosexuals, you may have bitten off more than what even you can chew! Gay Ugandans are more hated in Uganda than the govt excesses!¨ read it all, click HERE

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·Thanks to Martin Mwenda, LION of a man!

SATANS MURDEROUS CHRISTIANS: Uganda’s Antigay Executioners Coached by Another U.S. Evangelical

David Bahati, The Ugandan MP who proposes that gays should be executed

Author of Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the "College of Prayer International" spiritual advisor!

The Uganda New Vision reports the latest on David Bahati, the MP behind the proposed draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill"; he was among attendees at a recent prayer meeting for parliamentarians, after which eight MPs were selected to be in the servant leadership team for Parliament for three years.

¨They included Ruth Tuma, Alice Alaso, Beatrice Lagada, Moses Ntahobari, Capt. Grace Kyomugisha, Benson Obua, David Bahati and the East African legislative assembly MP, Maj. Gen Mugisha Muntu.¨ By Richard Bartholomew, click HERE

“You have to confront the enemy, Satan, using God’s authority,” confront it all, click HERE

Members of the Ugandan Paliament (MP´s) lifting their hands to pray during the college of prayers at Fairway Hotel, Thursday, 5th November, 2009

¨MEMBERS of Parliament have been warned against witchcraft and corrupt tendencies.¨ read more, click HERE

...and now a few words from the much feared and hated ´satanic´ opposition:

¨CHRISTIANS AGAINST THE ANTI-GAY BILL¨

·In solidarity as a Christian against the anti-gay bill before the Parliament of Uganda·

¨I am a conservative Christian and I have watched on in horror as my church leaders (Anglican) endorsed the anti-gay bill but are opposed to the death penalty as if that is a concession.

I can't believe that our pastoral mentors who are always stressing that we are all sinners, and that we should forgive fellow sinners could agree to such a hate-filled law...¨

...¨I can not trust politicians nor government as custodians of "morality" one bit and doing so will be laughable, giving them such wide ranging discretion and power will only lead to it's abuse. I will not leave a thief to guard my house! A crime that is next to impossible to prove, is the easiest to abuse, and is one which should not have such punitive punishment. Wait when opponents of this government start being indicted in court with shady witnesses, and their fortunes are left to the mercy of the court, it's one's word against the other and so, the verdict of guilty or innocent will be 50/50 irrespective of guilt or innocence of the accused. (Even pastors have taken to accusing each other of homosexuality)...¨

¨I for one as a Ugandan, fear what lies ahead, this year has been the year of hatred.¨ read the entire eye witness account of the corruption, blaming and shaming already underway in Uganda, click HERE

UPDATED: November 10,2009

KAMPALA, Nov 9 (IPS) - The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law.

RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay" by Wambi Michael, read it all, click HERE

Thinking Anglicans: ¨more Ugandan reports,¨ click HERE

Archbishop Henri Luke Orombi, Uganda

Most appallingly, it is Uganda’s Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi who is spreading the slanderous gossip:

In April 2009, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi said, “I am appalled to learn that the rumours we have heard for a long time about homosexual recruiting in our schools and amongst our youth are true. I am even more concerned that the practice is more widespread than we originally thought. It is the duty of the church and the government to be watchmen on the wall and to warn and protect our people from harmful and deceitful agendas.” click HERE

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READY OR NOT ALERT: The Votes Are In! Two African-American Gay Candidates Win on Election Day

¨Despite the setback in Maine for LGBT equality, there were wins for the majority of the 79 LGBT candidates who were running for public office around the country. Notably, two African-American candidates―Charles Pugh and Jass Stewart―were among that group of newly elected officials.¨

History was made in Brockton, Massachusetts. Jass Stewart, 38, became the first African-American person and the first openly gay member of the city council in its 128 year history.

Charles Pugh went from being a former FOX2 television journalist to the first openly gay president-elect of the Detroit City Council.

¨The Votes Are In,¨ click HERE

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·Thanks to The Citizens of Brockton, Massachusetts
·Thanks to The Citizens of Detroit, Michigan

ALERT: Has GOD been busy (again) instructing people to Hate and Kill one another?

Heads up!

Doesn´t any of this mounting EVERYDAY VIOLENCE seem sicker than usual to YOU?

Why are religious zealots and right wing politicans encouraging bloodshed/warmongering, greedy practices, rebellion/sedition and reporting endless justifications for such selfrighteousness and selfishness? Why do the selfnamed ¨holy¨ have so many personal encounters with a God who clearly instructs them to FEAR and HATE and SLANDER others in Gods name? Demonize? Exclude? Despise? Shoot? Kill?

Why are drugged out/addicted talk show hosts and a irresponsible/uninformed smug exGovernor from Alaska Grandstand and claim that God is working miracles in their culturally and emotionally corrupt and obviously deranged personal lives?

Why are thieving and corrupt Archbishops and other religious thugs from Africa/beyond coming to the United States, Canada and England to organize anti-LGBT ministries and steal parish properties after aligning with bigoted cohorts? Why are Americans/others terrified of their LGBT brothers, sisters, coworkers and friends all of a sudden? Why are Americans falling through the cracks of their once spiritually and emotionally sound lives?

Why is a Ex President and Vice President, who instigated TWO WARS and near ECONOMIC RUIN in The United States, proclaiming God is working well by generating more destruction causing more fear and hate and everyday confusion and validating social ills and ruin?

What manmade fundamentalist ¨selective religiondriven insanity¨ is CAUSING multiple mass murder outbreaks, weekly and vicious hatecrimes, rapings, excluding, sexual slavery, exploitation of the poor, drugging, hiding, lieing, rampant alcoholism as well as justifying murder in the name of a God who COMMANDS ALL OF US to Love oneanother in Peace?

Who authorized obsessed and dangerous ¨religious¨ people to PREACH MARGINALIZING TO OTHERS and lay the foundation for FEAR and HATE on such a grand and reoccuring international scale that there is nowhere to avoid their vileness and judgmentalism in the World?

Why are lost souls encouraged by the example/word of some contaminated religious leaders to blow themselves up or exclude and/or harm and abuse others in everyday society in the name of God?

NOTE:

·FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist who'd recently completed training in treating traumatic stress disorder opened fire Thursday on a group of soldiers preparing to deploy to Iraq, killing at least 12 and wounding 31.

¨Fort Hood shooter was Army psychiatrist who treated stress,¨ click HERE

·Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- Authorities Friday apprehended a gunman who entered an Orlando building where he used to work and shot six people, killing one of them, the city's police chief said.

"They left me to rot." click HERE

·Suspect: God Made Me Hate Gay People! Sound familiar? It should to many who discriminate and segregate at CHURCH and everywhere else!

Does God make YOU hate?

Cops: Beating suspect said 'God made me hate gay people', click HERE

¨Bellamy, who was charged with robbery and assault as a hate crime, blamed his alleged actions on a directive from a higher power,¨ click HERE

IT WASN'T GOD WHO TOLD HIM TO HATE GAY PEOPLE!

¨No, it was ignorant, homophobic clergy who told him to hate Gay people!.¨ click HERE

·The Church is at war against all Ugandans who are gay. They want to kill us, to jail us.

By the Church, I mean Christians in Uganda. Not even the Catholics, with their ‘more enlightened’ theory of homosexuality have come out to defend gay Ugandans. No, they are all willing to have gay Ugandans put in prison for life. Or be put to death.¨ read it all, click HERE

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·Thanks to The Advocate
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UGANDA/HOMOPHOBIC HYSTERIA: Born-again, rigid, fundamentalist, revivalist Christians bring bigotry to public policy process

Religious Bigots incited by Buturo and Bahati are more dangerous to UGANDA than gays and lesbians.

Political Scientist and Analyst Okello Lucima writes about the anti-homosexuality bill.

¨The press in Uganda this week is awash with homophobic hysteria against Gays, Lesbians, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (GLBT) Ugandans. This overt and shameless discrimination against a minority population of our citizens flows from the fact homosexuality is criminalised in Uganda. As if this was not enough suppression of personal freedom and civil rights, Ndorwa West Member of Parliament (MP), David Bahati, has tabled a private member’s bill proposing a series of measures to control and punish GLBT activities in the country, including the death penalty for gays and lesbians caught living and expressing their sexuality.

This is not only cavalier violations of human rights, but a dangerous hate campaign and incitement to harm or kill members of the GLBT in Uganda. The people of Uganda, and all people of good will, must not sit and watch while this happens. The sponsors of the bill, their supporters and political leaders- inside and outside parliament- must be identified, isolated and ostracised by the entire civilised world that respect difference and diversity. Most democratising societies have laws that criminalise purveyors of hate and incitement of hatred against a person, persons or communities; and have robust bill of rights that protect citizens and minorities. Uganda should not be an exception.

However, it is not surprising that the state should be seeking such kind of personal control, to the extent of wanting to police what people do in their bedrooms, and who else they do it with and whether their partners are of the skirt or trouser wearing sorts.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Uganda

First, this comes about because of the nature and character of the Ugandan state: it is a military dictatorship that shot its way to and kept itself in power by military force. What there is in terms of a fledgling parliamentary democracy is sheer gloss of veneer for the consumption of the democratic tourist. For twenty years it outlawed political parties and suppressed freedoms of association and assembly, and the press is routinely knuckled. It rules by decree, not through free and open, well-informed debate in a deliberative, democratic process. Therefore, like all autocrats, the Ugandan ruling clique is not about to deviate from the age-old practice of control and micromanagement of all the affairs of state, and particularly the censorship and directing of the thoughts and behaviour of its citizens. Control freaks love uniformity but are threatened by freedom, diversity, and difference...¨
¨Ethics and Morals¨ Minister Nsaba Butro, ¨born again, rigid, fundamentalis, revivalist Christian.¨

...¨The second reason why the hate campaign against GLBT is not surprising is that most of those connected to state power, for instance Nsaba Buturo & Co. are born-again, rigid, fundamentalist, revivalist Christians who bring to the public policy process and the management of state affairs, their religious bigotry that they pass off as public morality and ethics. They completely ignore the fact that although Uganda is a majority Christian nation-state, there are people of other faiths, as well as non-believers, to whom the Muslim and Christian moralities they are so quick to refer to, cannot and should not apply. In any case, the Ugandan state is separate from the Church or Mosque, and it would be prudent for public servants to refrain from using and imposing the teachings and morals of one religion on the diverse people of Uganda, with pluralities of religion, faith, spiritual and moral inclinations...¨

Archibishop Henri Luke Orombi, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda and Gafcon schismatic who is causing serious problems between liberal and conservatives at The Anglican Communion.

¨...Obviously, their positions on GLBT people are directly lifted from the dispositions and teachings of their churches. We all recall the continuing controversy over ordination of gay priests and the blessing of gay marriages in the worldwide Anglican Communion which has caused a serious doctrinal and church practice schism between conservative and liberal wings of the church. It is this struggle into which the secular state is being enlisted. The democratic forces and the people of Uganda must oppose this interference, attempt to suppress our civil rights, and fuse the state with the church. The state and the public policy process must be inoculated from religious particularities. But the NRM/A dictatorship have aligned its position on GLBT practices with church conservatives who reject a more liberal interpretation of Christian doctrinal positions on homosexuality. Not only do church conservatives oppose the admission and ordination of homosexuals, but even women bishops and ministers within the communion are unacceptable. Furthermore, they insist that, marriage is only possible between a man and a woman, and for the purpose of procreation. Anything outside of this is regarded as unnatural and irredeemable sin...¨ read it all, from The Independent Uganda, Uncensored News, Views and Anaylisis, click HERE

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ATTENTION PRESIDENT MUSEVENI: Protect ¨personal freedoms¨ and NO to ¨divide and rule¨ tactics for UGANDA!

Dear President Yoweri Museveni, Please BLOCK the anti-Human Rights, ¨Anti-Homosexual Bill 2009¨ legislation currently tabled at the Ugandan Parliament!

Please REMEMBER:

"The National Resistance Movement has an unwavering commitment to the respect of HUMAN RIGHTS and the sanctity of life.¨

¨We waged a protracted war against tyranny on a platform of restoring personal freedoms and the amelioration of the socio-economic conditions of our people – that is the cornerstone of our programme."

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Uganda


¨President Museveni accepts heterogeneity as a matter of course because it mirrors the social spectrum of Ugandan society. He formed a broad-based government and demonstrated to Ugandans that although they had different political, social and religious backgrounds, they had a lot in common and a common destiny, contrary to the divide-and-rule tactics previous politicians had used to fragment Ugandan society.¨

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Uganda


Mr. President:

Article 29(1)(a)of the Uganda Constitution entrenches ‘freedom of speech and expression which shall include freedom of the press and other media.´

President Museveni, please defend the ¨freedom of speech and expression¨ for ALL of your Ugandan citizens.

ABANDON, BLOCK OR VETO the ¨Anti-Homosexuality 2009¨ Bill before the Ugandan Parliament.

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