Uganda: The U.S. Religious Right Exports Homophobia to Africa

[La Lioness Priyanka]

For Immediate Release, March 4, 2009
Contact Media: Hossein Alizadeh, 212-430-6016, [e-mail]

(New York, March 4)- The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) condemned a seminar designed to attack lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans under the cloak of religion. The 3-day seminar in Kampala, which opens Thursday, March 5, features an array of U.S. speakers known for their efforts to dehumanize LGBT people and for their belief that homosexuality can be "cured." The speakers include Scott Lively, Don Schmierer, and Caleb Lee Brundidge—leading voices in the crusade by religious extremists to roll back basic human rights for LGBT people in the United States. Brundidge is affiliated with Extreme Prophetic Ministry in Phoenix, Arizona. Schmierer is on the board of the so-called "ex-gay" organization Exodus International. Schmierer is an Exodus International board member based in the U.S. Lively lost credibility with regard to his claims on the role of homosexuals in the leadership of Nazi Germany.

"The American religious right is finally showing its hand and revealing the depth of its support for homophobia in Africa," said IGLHRC’s Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson. "This seminar will increase violence and other human rights abuses against LGBT people, women and anyone who doesn’t conform to gender norms. This newest form of colonialism is deplorable and must be stopped."

http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/868.html

i loved this article because it shows just who is powering this state sponsored hatred