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Related: About this forumEvangelicals spread hate beyond Uganda.
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/12/229869334/god-loves-uganda-how-religion-fueled-an-anti-gay-movementhttp://www.thenation.com/blog/179191/its-not-just-uganda-behind-christian-rights-onslaught-africa#
"But such groups arent just active in Uganda. They have promoted antigay legislation in Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, just to name a few other places. The support ranges from popular agitation and sideline cheerleading to outright intervention.
In 2010, for example, when Zimbabwe began the process of drafting a new constitution, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Christian law firm founded by evangelist Pat Robertson, launched a Zimbabwean counterpart called the African Centre for Law and Justice. The outpost trained lawyers for the express purpose of putting a Christian stamp on the draft of the new constitution.
The African Centre joined forces with the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ), an indigenous organization, to promote constitutional language affirming that Zimbabwe is a Christian nation and ensuring that homosexuality remained illegal. These and other hardline views are outlined in a pamphlet distributed by the EFZ and ACLJ. Jordan Sekulow, the executive director of ACLJ, announced that his organization would lobby for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in political and religious circles in the event of any controversy over the provisions, despite the fact that Mugabe has been sanctioned by the United States and the European Union for violating human rights. Last year, Zimbabwes new constitution, which includes a ban on gay marriage, was approved by an overwhelming popular vote."
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)of attitudes about minorities held by conservatives in America.
edhopper
(33,604 posts)At the American evangelicals also involved in pushing these laws in Africa.
Cartoonist
(7,320 posts)Not all evangelicals are like that.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)What you are proposing is your belief which flies in the face of actual facts.
When one holds onto a false belief despite evidence to the contrary, what do we call that?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Obviously these people are just using religion to push their agenda. Real Christians (tm) can find passages in the bible that might mean, if you squint at them long enough until everything gets blurry, that we are all equal and that the angry Yahweh of the bible really loves all of us and isn't going to toss all of us sinners into a pit of fire for eternity.
So stop with the hate propaganda.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)It's been explained to me before, but I still don't understand why they are even interested in Uganda.
I am waiting for God Loves Uganda to get on Mexican netflix.
Hate groups, nothing more. Wasn't one of these american evangelicals charged with crimes against humanity or something? Does anyone know what came of that?
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)is that it has a large Christian population and they can still get away with this shit there.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)IIRC.
So maybe they are losing their grip.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Unfortunately, he's still free.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)about why he is still free, I would appreciate your sharing.