Lou Engle and other Christian Rightists going to Uganda to try to revive 'Kill the Gays' bill

[ck4829]

Just when it seemed that the 'Kill the Gays' bill had been put on the back burner by Ugandan lawmakers, a new threat looms on the horizon from American anti-gay and anti-abortion extremist Lou Engle of TheCall Ministries who, with the endorsement of several of Uganda's local religious figures, has organized a rally event in Kampala for Sunday, May 2, that, according to the website, aims to specifically target "homosexuality and increased immorality" along with "the decay of morals and infrastructure" as "challenges" that need to be tackled alongside "witchcraft" and "human sacrifice."

From the Human Rights Campaign's action alert:

"Right wing fundamentalists are once again exporting hate and intolerance masked as religion to Uganda. The Call Uganda, led and fueled by American fundamentalist Lou Engle, is an anti-gay stadium event and all-day rally, scheduled for May 2nd in Kampala, Uganda. Faith leaders, including HRC’s Religion and Faith Program, have joined together to insist that we will not stand for the continual exportation of violence and hatred by fundamentalist preachers. Enough is enough. These incendiary actions, led by Lou Engle and others, put LGBT people, their families and allies in fear of their lives."

http://www.care2.com/causes/human-rights/blog/ugandas-kill-the-gays-bill-gets-reviving-call-from-american-extremist-lou-engel/

[QC]

1. Are these some of those people we need to reach out to?

Sorry, but these guys don't make me feel all reachy outy.

[The Magistrate]

2. An Odd List Of Dislikes, Sir, From This Wretch

In regard to homosexuality, he is a believer in witchcraft, since he conceives it as being able to do harm to a society by virtue of the carrying out of various physical acts held to achieve this operation at a distance, and he also urges human sacrifice, since he conceives it as necessary to kill homosexuals under law to ward off the wrath of a deity conceived as being willing to punish a whole society if homosexual acts take place within it.

[RKP5637]

3. Yeah, these guys really know how to spread the concept of christian love. It's

time many of these and similar groups were boldly recognized as christian hate groups. I wish Christianity were more vocal in pointing them out for what they are, and loud and clear!!!

[loudsue]

4. Let's hope their plane doesn't make it.

:shrug: Maybe it will have to land in, oh, Iran or some place.

[RKP5637]

5. +1, n/t

[Shallah Kali]

6. Engle is buddies with many GOP - Brownback, DeMint, Bachmann, Forbes, Huckabee, VA's Attn Gen

GOP’s New Prayer Guru Lou Engle Helping Incite Near-Genocidal Antigay Hatred in Uganda by Bruce Wilson
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/24/gops-new-prayer-guru-helping-incite-near-genocidal-antigay-hatred-in-uganda/

To give you a sense of where Lou Engle is at, in the video below, which features a recording from one of Lou Engle’s TheCall rallies, Engle talks about how one of his sons casts out homosexuals spirits (gay demons), a practice Engle calls “scary,” and he demonizes San Francisco’s Castro District, the semi-official stronghold of San Francisco’s gay population, as a place where “the homosexuals boast the dominion of darkness.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7iNftDaIjc

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At the Family Research Council’s December 16, 2009 “Prayercast” against health care reform Lou Engle led US GOP Senators Sam Brownback and Jim DeMint, and Republican Congressional Representatives Michelle Bachmann and Randy Forbes, in prayers against government-provided health care plans. Engle claims to have been Senator Brownback’s roommate for seven months.

During summer 2009, at a Virginia Beach, VA megachurch ceremony Engle prayed over, blessed, and anointed GOP presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich. At the April 15-16, 2010 Freedom Federation “Awakening” conference held at Liberty University’s Thomas Road Baptist Church, attended by Virginia Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Lou Engle led a session on “revival and prayer.”

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TheCall fights gay marriage in California

During the 2008 US elections Lou Engle’s TheCall ran eight California field offices in the successful church-based voter turnout effort that helped pass Proposition Eight, which bans same sex marriages in the state. Engle states that he personally made 3,000 phone calls to leaders and pastors in the state in support of the effort.

Massachusetts, which has had legalized gay marriage for half a decade, has seen no appreciable negative impact from the 2005 expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples. The Bay State, which has long had the lowest divorce rate in the nation, now boasts a state divorce rate comparable to that of the early 1940’s before the United States entered World War Two.

At the November 1, 2008 capstone rally of the pro-Prop 8 push, held by TheCall at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium, Engle predicted that failure to pass Prop 8 would “release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.”

Engle’s words, and his stadium event, were broadcast internationally on GodTV, which claims its networks can reach several hundred million people worldwide.

National Day of Prayer Chairman Shirley Dobson and her husband Focus On The Family Founder James Dobson spoke at the Qualcomm Stadium rally, during which Lou Engle and one of his bearded young disciples made calls, from onstage, for acts of Christian martyrdom to stop gay marriage and abortion.

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As described in the extended Talk To Action report Rick Warren’s Dissertation Advisor Leads Network Promoting Uganda Anti-Gay Bill, leaders associated with Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation have played significant roles in organizing and inspiring the Ugandan legislators who have drafted, submitted, and backed the internationally condemned Anti Homosexuality Bill.

Lou Engle is one C. Peter Wagner’s “prophetic elders” who, along with Sarah Palin’s prayer group leader Mary Glazier, sits on Wagner’s prestigious Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, which issues group prophecy and is one of the key leadership groups in Wagner’s sprawling new incarnation of the Religious Right known as the New Apostolic Reformation that is fighting gay rights and inciting antigay hatred on a worldwide scale.

Much, much more at the link including links to sources so please click through and read:
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/24/gops-new-prayer-guru-helping-incite-near-genocidal-antigay-hatred-in-uganda

Any politician who consorts with Engle or any of his ilk should be called out and voted out of office for associating with extremists.


People for the America Way's Right Wing Watch blog has tracked Engle's political actions for some time. Here is a link to posts tagged with his name: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/lou-engle


& as Engle is part of NAR here is a directory of links to New Apostolic Reformation groups. Does your state have a chapter who wne they aren't voting are exorcising your area of demons?
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/1/20/131544/037

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. How do they handle it when god births out intersexed babies?? I'm

curious as to their explanation on this... I'm sure it would be a tad awkward for them.

[Odin2005]

8. Uganda is an absolute shithole.

[QC]

9. Rick Warren has also been intimately involved (so to speak)

with the Kill the Homos crowd in Uganda and elsewhere.

Yes, good ole cuddly Rick Warren, the guy we are all supposed to reach out to.