Comments on: Finding America a Wee Bit Too Liberal, Conservative Christians Push Their Hate in Uganda

By: xJane

xJane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:49:14 +0000

more reading/pertinent info: at Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory On imposing "western" human rights on other cultures.

By: John

John — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:36:08 +0000

xJane, I think the thing that we can do is to put pressure on our representatives to condemn Uganda's hateful proposed legislation (I don't think it's passed yet, and the Ugandan president said he would veto it). Congressional reps have begun to call on Obama to condemn the legislation and threaten revocation of foreign aid, and Sweden has also threatened to cut bilateral ties. The other thing we can do is to educate ourselves on American Christian involvement (as you have helped us with here!) and to shame our Christian neighbors into more vocal condemnation.

By: John

John — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:29:12 +0000

Sean is right, that the Church and its membership have some culpability in perpetuating a culture that facilitates persecution of gays. The “we love gays, but…” attitude is simply a way to rationalize their bigotry. Hell, they loved blacks, too, while they withheld exaltation from them.

By: xJane

xJane — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:35:30 +0000

ugh, that's sickening. Also, however, unintentionally hilarious (JoeMyGod linked to this): check out the painfully prudish amicus filed against Lawrence. I guess laughter is my defense mechanism.

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:36:33 +0000

Unfortunately they’re not stopping with Uganda: Via JoeMyGod: http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/01/american-anti-gay-groups-continue.html

By: Sean @ Alone and Unobserved

Sean @ Alone and Unobserved — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:32:58 +0000

This is one of the most direct and convincing demonstrations of the harm these people do. Sure, none of the guys listed above actually advocates violence, but at this point, who can deny that they haven’t contributed to violence and hatred against gays?

This is why I hold the Mormon church and its homophobic teachings and actions at least partially responsible for the gay suicides and the anti-gay violence that happen in Utah. Sure, the Mormon church would decry the violence, and tell people to love gays and lesbians. But everything else they say about gay people belies their protestations of love, and nobody who listens to them is stupid enough not to pick up on it.