Here is a bit of good news! In my earlier post last week, How Not To Celebrate World AIDS Day, I wrote about the proposed legislation in Uganda that would enforce the death penalty on homosexuals who were HIV+.
This has generated a lot of outrage and put some very intense focus on the American Christian fundamentalist lobbyists, politicians and theologans who have been involved in the internal affairs of Uganda. This pressure paid off today.
Rick Warren has officially come out against the proposed laws in Uganda that would make homosexuality a crime, punishable by death in some cases. In an open letter to the pastors of Uganda (with whom Warren has a great deal of influence from his missionary work) the American mega-pastor says,
As an American pastor, it is not my role to interfere with the politics of other nations, but it IS my role to speak out on moral issues ... the potential law is unjust, extreme and un-Christian toward homosexuals, requiring the death penalty in some cases. If I am reading the proposed bill correctly, this law would also imprison anyone convicted of homosexual practice ... I urge you, the pastors of Uganda, to speak out against the proposed law.
Obviously, Warren holds (and reiterates in the letter) beliefs about sex and about queer men and women with which I thoroughly disagree. But I want to thank him for doing the right thing here, for putting his influence and power to use to save the lives of innocent people. Hopefully, Warren's letter will make a difference.
3 comments:
Rick warren finally got off of his fundamental ass because the seat was getting too hot. That's all. His heart is still as cold as stone.
That's exactly correct, mudrake. From what I have been hearing the heat was applied from above as well as from the roots.
On another front, there have been huge demonstrations in front of the Ugandan Embassies in London and the Scandanavian countries.
Sweden and a few other countries have threatened to stop all foreign aid to Uganda.
The evidence though is becoming more damning that it was the American Fundamentalist influence that created the move for this idea.
The evidence though is becoming more damning that it was the American Fundamentalist influence
Indeed, but you probably already know this: it really doesn't matter all that much here in the Land of Delusion where 68% of the people here believe in angels.
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