Rick Warren Won't Denounce Proposed Ugandan Anti-Gay Law

[QC]

Uganda is considering passage of a bill that would, among other things, authorize sentences of life imprisonment for gay sex, the death penalty for HIV positive individuals who have sex, and criminalize LGBT rights organizing.

Political Research Associates, which researches right-wing movements, has called on Purpose-Driven Life author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren to denounce the proposed law.

In a statement to RD through a spokesperson, though, Warren said he had no position or comment on the proposed law....

Warren's spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his relationship with {Archbishop Henry} Orombi, a schismatic, anti-gay Anglican. According to the Christian Post, Orombi spearheaded efforts to bring Warren to Uganda to make it a "purpose-driven nation." Orombi has stoked anti-gay sentiment in Uganda, and has claimed that homosexuals want to kill him. "Homosexuals are agitating that it is a human right. But how can it be a human right for a man to sleep with another man or a woman to marry a woman?" Orombi said last year, adding, "What we need is to wake up and protect our church and children against this practice."

http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/1987/rick_warren_won%27t_denounce_proposed_ugandan_anti-gay_law/

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Obligatory, but: Fuck Rick Warren

Fuck him in the ass.

Maybe he'll like it!

[virgogal]

2. And the Archbishop too I assume.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. That's a gimme

[juno jones]

3. Of course he won't.

His church is one of those prosteltysing over there and fanning the flames of persecution for gays and 'witches'. Unfortunately those culture are already prone to these viewpoints, but the bible thumpers over there 'civilising the natives' certainly aren't helping matters any.

For more info on this check out the writings of troutfishing (bruce wilson) a regular kos contributor and a co-founder of www.talk2action.org a religious watchdog site.

[QC]

6. Yes, that is one of the little known aspects of this story.

the intimate ties between Dominionists in the U.S. and those in Africa leading what is clearly shaping up to be a pogrom.

[Starry Messenger]

4. Of course he won't denounce it

He probably helped write it.

[Neecy]

5. Gee, I guess letting him preach at the Inauguration didn't 'moderate' his msg

Bastard. Fucker.

[QC]

8. Well, it was always bullshit that Warren was some sort of moderate, but many believed it

because he had so carefully cultivated that image of being a reasonable evangelical, as opposed to a fanatical Dominionist. But this latest business gives the lie to the image that Warren has spent so many years creating, one that apparently took in even a lot of people who should have known better.