THE OBSESSION WITH SEX and ¨KILLING GAYS¨ IN UGANDA: “Young people, commit your sexual organs to the Lord...¨ Anglican Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi

Anglican Archbishop Orombi/Uganda

"People should respect nature and the great creator who modelled man and woman. He wasn't blind and he knows why he created a man's parts and a woman's parts. Why should anyone try to undo that?" Henry Luke Orombi,   HERE

¨Malicious¨ Janet Museveni, Member of Parliament and First Lady of Uganda (she wants to become the next President after her three-term husband)

 

"In God's word, homosexuality attracts a curse, but now people are engaging in it and saying they are created that way. It is for money The devil is stoking fires to destroy our nation and those taking advantage are doing so because our people are poor," she said. Mrs. Museveni advised the youth not only to listen to messages on how they can make money but also focus on spiritual growth. "You know that you will lose everything else when you lose your soul.¨  MP Janet Museveni, HERE

  

 

The ¨not so ethical¨ government minister of ¨morals and ethics¨ Father Simon Lokodo

HERE

  

“Young people, commit your sexual organs to the Lord. He does not need your money, but He needs you. Your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.”  Archbishop Orombi  HERE

 

Anglican Archbishop Henry Orombi  and Anglican MP David Bahati. Bahati is author/adamant promoter of ¨Kill the Gays¨ genocide bill (++Orombi is Bahati´s ´spiritual counselor´)  http://leonardoricardosanto.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-despot-bigots-homophobes-and.html

 

 

DEADLY RESENTMENT?

Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga/Uganda, recently returned from international conference in Canada where she and her government in Uganda were challenged on extreme and deadly pending legislation on anti-LGBT issues. 
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/10/31/1117031/ugandan-parliament-speaker-pushes-for-kill-the-gays-bill/

¨The Associated Press reports that according to Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda's long-pending "Kill The Gays" genocide bill will be passed by the end of the year. Local clergy have petitioned the government, demanding the bill's passage as a "Christmas gift to Christians."

http://leonardoricardosanto.blogspot.com/2012/11/lgbt-murdercleansing-alert-christmas.html

 

Hault the promotion of religious genocide in Uganda

 

  Anonymous targets Ugandan officials for 'kill the gays' bill

http://www.examiner.com/article/anonymous-targets-ugandan-officials-for-kill-the-gays-bill

 

 

LGBT MURDER/CLEANSING ALERT: ¨Christmas Genocide Gift to Christians in Uganda¨ -- Anglican MP David Bahati´s ¨Kill the Gays¨ Bill to be passed quickly to ¨satisfy local clergy¨



RESENTMENT? Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga/Uganda, recently returned from international conference in Canada where she and her government in Uganda were challenged on extreme and deadly pending legislation on anti-LGBT issues.  http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/10/31/1117031/ugandan-parliament-speaker-pushes-for-kill-the-gays-bill/

¨The Associated Press reports that according to Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda's long-pending "Kill The Gays" genocide bill will be passed by the end of the year. Local clergy have petitioned the government, demanding the bill's passage as a "Christmas gift to Christians."

Religious lust for LGBT genocide in Uganda

Ugandans "are demanding it," she said, reiterating a promise she made before a meeting on Friday of anti-gay activists who spoke of "the serious threat" posed by homosexuals to Uganda's children. Some Christian clerics at the meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, asked the speaker to pass the law as "a Christmas gift."

Anglican and MP David Bahati is author/adamant promoter of ¨Kill the Gays¨  genocide bill http://leonardoricardosanto.blogspot.com/2012/09/meet-despot-bigots-homophobes-and.html

"Speaker, we cannot sit back while such (a) destructive phenomenon is taking place in our nation," the activists said in a petition. "We therefore, as responsible citizens, feel duty-bound to bring this matter to your attention as the leader of Parliament ... so that lawmakers can do something to quickly address the deteriorating situation in our nation."

The anti-gay activists paraded in front of Kadaga, with parents and schoolchildren holding up signs saying homosexuality is "an abomination." The speaker then promised to consider the bill within two weeks, declaring that "the power is in our hands. Who are we not to do what they have told us? These people should not be begging us," Kadaga said of activists who want the bill to become law.

While the above-linked AP report claims that the bill "originally mandated death for some gay acts," in fact the bill does continue to call for the death penalty for "serial offenders." Box Turtle Bulletin notes that according to Clause One of the act, a "serial offender" is defined as a someone who has "previous convictions of the offence of homosexuality or related offences." In other words, a second conviction brings the death penalty. And those "related offenses" include renting a room to a gay person or failing to inform the government that someone they know is gay, meaning that a straight person could also suffer the "gay death penalty..." HERE

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SHALL WE STAY OR FALL AWAY? ¨...hold open the possibility of changing my mind¨ The Rt. Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, designate

Estimado Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham, Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury designate,

Onward we go.  Yes we do.  You do and I do. Forward we go by opening our minds/spirits and receiving, adjusting to one another and by being willing to grow into the greatest and newest discoveries amongst Gods constant revelations.  What a challenge for mutual discernment we have before your enthronement March, 2013.  Saint Augustine pray for us.

Bishop Justin Welby, are you willing to change?

Thankfully, I´ve arrived at some understanding of Gods will for me, and for some other Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people like me after a lifetime of trying to figure ¨God¨ out! I'm especially glad to share the God of my understanding with you today.   You seem like a spiritually healthy soul to me and I trust the Crown Nominations Commission has not let me/us down after submitting your nomination to the Prime Minister and the Queen for approval as our next Archbishop of Canterbury.

I just watched an interview featuring you from Lambeth Palace on CNN International. It's nice to meet you, Bishop.  Please come right in and have a seat in my home at the Foot of the Volcano in Guatemala, Central America. 

There is a pressing personal matter that I'd like to discuss with you before you officially become another first amongst equals at The Anglican Communion.

I am 69 years old.  I am a retired ¨Americano¨ and  I am an active artist/painter, and a ¨Gay¨ (as opposed to Heterosexual) member of The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion.  I live in Central America and I am also a resident of Florida, U.S.A..  There you have it, the basics about me, or at least, it's a start:

I was born in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.  I was born to heterosexual parents who loved one another until death when they did part.  I have an older sister and we had a Cocker Spaniel named ¨Taffy¨ while growing up.  We were a middle class family.  We had a nice home with a lovely garden and the world shined and sparkled around us.  We were a fortunate family in many ways.  I knew it then and I know it now.  Thanks be to God.

I was different even as a child into adulthood.  I knew I was different but I lived with my ¨sexual orientation¨ secret, because, afterall, I agreed with people who said there could be something wrong with me/people like me.  I felt shame, I felt guilt! I felt alone/different and I didn't even know why I was different or why God made me into being the way I was.  It didn't make sense.  I didn't make sense even to me as I grew up. 

Best to pretend *things* were different than they really were in my very own customized/isolated reality.  Onward. 

Oddly, I was a very outgoing kid and young adult.  My happy nature prevented me from being a cowardly and timid member of society.  I was thrilled to be alive, that is, I was mostly thrilled to be me (except for a not-as-big-as-I-thought-it-to-be-secret that was eating away inside of me as I bit my fingernails).  Inferiority?  How could this be?  I was a lively, healthy, creative, playful, loved/loving one of Gods beings (except I loathed me)? 

Best to drink and make that part go away! Best it go away for the moment, for the evening or until another day. My difference faded when I drank them away.  Presto, gone.  Many enchanted evenings and a decade+ passed on as I tried to make *things* different than they were.

I drank alcoholicly from 18 years old until age 35.  I was a success in my personal life but I loathed the innermost me.  At age 35 I couldn´t hide anymore, there was no place left to hide from the homosexual shame inside of me.  I was at the dropping off place and I wanted to die! I couldn´t pretend anymore.  That is,  I wanted to die but then I´d be dead.  I didn't want to be dead!  I just wanted to die or find out how to live.  I prayed to God (with drunken pleading) to ¨take this away from me.¨ God did.  The alcoholism that is.

So, from age 35 right up until this momento I've been relieved of my active alcoholism.  I've not been relieved of being the authentic me.  The biggest, and best, lesson I´ve learned in sobriety was/is that God wanted me to be me...in all my affairs.  Not just sometimes.  Not cowardly! Not just when it was convenient/safe.  Not just when I was on the otherside of the need to tell you, in the church and beyond, what I thought you/they, we wanted to hear. I'm called to always to be me.  Now that's a challenge.  Personal authenticity!  Imagine,  being selfaccountable in my reality in front of you and everyone else on a regular basis!  My shrinking away into someone else days/daze were over at last!  Freedom at last!  I got to be the whole person that I was born to be.  Thanks be to God.  Enter personal responsibility!

Bishop Justin Welby.  It's time for you to step up to and address one of the greatest ¨religious¨ issues/crimes of our time.  It's up to you to lead the Church of England/Anglican Communion by helping to introduce everyday reality, equality and mutual-accountability at Church.  It's time for you and others to stop playing pretend that you are different than me (and Anglican people like me).  The thinking/beliving must be reviewed that you are somehow more honorable than me and other Anglicans like me and our LGBT clergy.  It´s your chance to HELP LGBT Anglicans at home and abroad by demonstrating your personal integrity and the open mindedness you wish to have. You pray to have.  You ought not look the otherway when Anglicans like David Kato are murdered in Uganda nor when a innocent is beaten to death in Liverpool (while the Lambeth Conference is in session with no mention) or while preaching in LGBT bloodrenched Jamaica during the ACC meeting... and/or when Anglican Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo is ex-communicated for ministering to the marginalized/suicidal LGBT Ugandans!  Speak up against viciousness within the Anglican Communion.  Anglican and MP David Bahati is currently promoting his ¨Kill all the Gays¨ legislation again at the Parliament of Uganda.  Please don't play pretend, Bishop.  Lifetimes of evil directed against LGBT Christians will not go away just because you are ¨holding open the possibility of changing your mind!¨

It's time for you to stand tall as our next Archbishop of Canterbury.  It's time for you to cry out to God and ask God to help you/us find your/our way away from the active discrimination and the practicing of difference, fear and hate against LGBT Christians at the Church of England and various deadly outposts of Christianlike ministry at the Anglican Communion.

Very truly yours,

Leonard Clark aka Leonardo Ricardo

Bishop Justin,

Here are two notes I received today.  I'm forwarding them to you and they are from a former Anglicana in Central America:

¨ I think I should have told the BBC that the Church of England should learn from the Republican Party in the U.S. They moved so far to the conservative side that they lost the election.  

The Church is not living in the present, and the members of the church are voting with their feet, walking out. There is a price to pay. You would think I wouldn't be so mad considering I left the church over 10 years ago, but it still resonates.¨

 

About the note to the BBC:

 

¨I just read on BBC that a new Archbishop is being ordained. But it looks like same old, same old in his views on homosexuality and gay marriage. I wrote a comment, and after i sent it it said they would use my name, but not my email should they decide to publish it. No big deal, but didn't like the fact that the information was given only after the message was submitted. My comment was something like "it's disappointing that the new Archbishop of Canterbusy hasn't changed his views on homosexuality and gay marriage. When will the Church start living in the present, or at least show compassion for homosexuals. I am 75 years old, not gay, and I have left the Church." I would word it differently now, but it's gone.¨  Love you

 

Friends of Juan Carlos: In the swim of things

Juan Carlos is gamekeeper, fish warden, head dog trainer/groomer and executive bird watcher too.

 

 

Everything is clean as a whistle in the mainstream of life and good health abounds at our house.

 

 

Thanks to Juan Carlos, Chepe, Henry and Violeta we run a very hospitable home at all times 

 

 Center top:  Our Mayor, Dr. Julio Quinoñez and to his right Jose ¨Chepe¨ Vice Mayor and many other notable citzens and pals.

PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS! ONWARD WE GO (all of us together, thank you very much)!

President Barack Obama of the United States of America (Norte)

REELECTED!

VALIDATED!

¨God, gods, and goddesses willing, we may be watching the beginning of the end of homophobia as a political force.¨  http://counterlightsrantsandblather1.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-big-gay-night.html

 

STATE OF AMERICAN CONFUSION: ¨There is just so much at stake. The fact that this election is so close has me really worried about the general intelligence and sensibility of my fellow Americans.¨

I can’t pretend that I can even begin to understand Republicans

¨I can’t wait for tomorrow to be over, but I’m freaking out about it at the same time.

First, I don’t know how I’ll react if Romney wins the presidency. I hate him; I hate him more than I hated McCain and even George W. Bush. I always thought that Bush was just clueless, but Romney is evil. He is a liar and a cheat. He is insincere and he doesn’t have the country’s best interests at heart. He doesn’t care about the American people; he just wants to be president...¨ read it all, Scottbblog,  http://scottbblog.wordpress.com/

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A PRESIDENT PREDICTING BREAKFAST : Peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches on wheat toast -- builds All-American good moral character!

This morning, Monday morning at the Foot of the Volcano, yo,  Leonardo Ricardo, felt a burst of enthusiasm for everyday life and for the ongoing equality progress, healing and well-being of the United States of America/Norte.  I am, thanks be to God and heterosexual love my parents had for one another, a Yankee Doodle Dandy living in Central America.  I voted in the U.S. general election already, via absentee ballot, over a week ago.  As I type this blog entry I feel a rush of positive eagerness for the reelection of President Obama which will take place tomorrow in the United States/Norte...primero Dios. I notice I have a great deal more confidence than ever before that my hope and wish will come to true tomorrow and we will have four more years of National Integrity led by President Barack Obama.  

What gave me this last minute surge of hope and reelection outcome reassurance you may ask? 

I ate my favorite healthy breakfast this morning.   Good reason as any.  My all-time most energizing breakfast of  Peanut Butter and sliced Dill Pickles (longways) on Multi-grain toast sandwich!   Of course everything will go my way today, tomorrow and this week with such a tasty/happy breakfast choice.  Never question the power of wholesome morning eating when divining presidential elections (or anything else).  

Peace be with you!

 

OBAMANOS 2012
Guatemala, Central America

Independent Women: Whatever The Hell You Do On Tuesday, Don’t Make Mitt Romney Our President!

GOP CIRCLING: ¨President Obama and Mitt Romney are still – incomprehensibly – tied in the polls¨

¨The election is days away, President Obama and Mitt Romney are still – incomprehensibly – tied in the polls, and I’m having flashbacks from the bad acid trip that was the George W. Bush presidency. Nobody I know is laughing at a Mitt Romney win in that “it could never happen” kind of way we did back in 2000, because it absolutely did happen then, and it happened again in 2004. And if George W. Bush could be re-elected after the first four years of his presidency, anything is possible.

Halloween is over, but how fitting the season. Like the zombie’s hand reaching from the grave at the end of the horror movie, just when you thought it was finally over, I fear that gays, blacks, women, will be dragged back down, kicking and screaming, by another Republican presidency, the gains of the last four years lost as if the Obama years were all just a dream.

There has been a strange calm over the Republican Party in the last couple of months, like a lake without ripples, yet something seems to be lurking deep under the surface, waiting to emerge. After the Republican primaries, it was almost as if the Tea Party and their bat-shit crazy agenda just disappeared. Mitt Romney was made the Republican presidential candidate, and someone locked the Tea Partiers in the Political Makeover Cabin and told them to keep their mouths shut until the coast was clear.,,¨ HERE

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TAIWAN LGBT PRIDE PARADE: 50,000 attendees from 20+ countries and supported by Christian Action Network too!

It was a record turnout at the Taiwan LGBT Pride Parade on Saturday with over 50,000 attendees from more than 20 countries.

 

An estimated 50,000 on Saturday took to the streets in Taipei – the largest turnout in its 10-year history – to show their support for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, calling on the government to recognise same-sex marriage equality and diversity in partnership, according to the Taipei Times. Parade organisers say about 3,000 people from 23 countries were at the parade, and estimated the total number to be at about 65,000.

The parade, which is the largest of its kind in Asia, was split into two groups with different routes after departing Ketagalan Boulevard, in the heart of Taipei City. Both group converged back at Ketagalan Boulevard at about 4:30pm, where they had a tribute to three late advocates of LGBT rights — entertainer Da Bing (大炳), activist Chiang Chia-wen (江嘉雯) and stage actor Liu Ching-hung (劉敬弘).

Hong Kong pop star Gigi Leung (梁詠琪) and singer Anthony Wong (黃天耀) – who came out publicly this year – showed up to express their support for LGBT rights.

“Love is gender-blind, everyone is entitled to the right to enjoy happiness,” Leung said was quoted as saying in the Taipei Times. “I can feel the joy of marriage after I got married last year, and I hope that everyone can enjoy the same degree of happiness as I do, regardless of their sexual orientation.”

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Thanks to Taiwan LGBT Pride, 10 Year History, HERE
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Thanks to Gigi Leung (梁詠琪) and singer Anthony Wong (黃天耀)
 

GRACELESS: Archbishop Okoh, apparently not content to resolve the devasting religious rioting and blood drenched civil upraisings in Nigeria, speaks out on how to reorganize The Church of England and the Anglican Communion

The Most Reverend Nicolas Okoh: Nigerian Anglican tackles Britain on Canterbury bishop selection while simultaneously Anglicans are murdered in their own parish churches in Nigeria.

¨The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) demanded a change in the age-long tradition that allows the British government to appoint the Archbishop of Canterbury, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

The Primate of the Church, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, on Wednesday in Abuja made the call at a media briefing to herald the 2012 Divine Commonwealth Conference scheduled to begin in the city next week.

NAN reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is due to retire by the end of the year and according to the the tradition, the British Prime Minister is expected to name his successor.

The appointment of the new Church leader is based on the recommendations of the UK-based Crown Nominations Commission, a 16-member body made up of bishops, priests and laity.

Okoh, who a fierce critic of the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, described the selection process for the new church leader as “politicised”...¨  questioning the wisdom, HERE

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