US Sec State Clinton speaks out on the Kill the Gays Law in Uganda

Another report about the conservative right that makes me want to puke.

“Compassionate Conservatives” are suddenly M.I.A. when Uganda drafts legislation to execute all gays

Death Sentence To Remain In Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

The rhetoric over an anti-gay bill in Uganda has reached new heights this week as the controversy received increased visibility.

In Uganda, the bill’s sponsor, MP David Bahati, told Kampala-based The Observer that he was undeterred by international pressure to drop the bill’s death sentence provisions for repeat offenders and people who are HIV-positive.

“Since we started this cause, there has been a lot of speculation and manipulation on the part of the pro-gay community to try and divert us from defending our family values,” Bahati said. “There is no amount of pressure or intimidation that will deter us from preventing our children from being lured into this evil.”

Earlier reports indicated that the death provisions might be dropped in the bill’s final draft. There is wide support for the bill that increases penalties for being gay in a country where it’s already illegal.

While anti-gay sentiment in Africa has risen significantly in recent years and being gay is illegal in 37 nations on the continent, Uganda has received the lion’s share of attention because of the involvement of prominent U.S. evangelicals, including the Rev. Rick Warren, who recently distanced himself from the bill.

Scott Lively, founder of the anti-gay Abiding Truth Ministries, is often mentioned as an architect of the bill. Lively has promoted controversial anti-gay theories, including the idea that gay rights are dangerous because Germany’s Nazi Party was ruled by gay men. While Lively admits traveling to Uganda in March, he says his testimony in front of the nation’s leaders was largely ignored.

In a post published at DefendTheFamily.com, Lively simultaneously commends “the courage of the Uganda people” to resist “the enormous power and relentless pressure of the international ‘gay’ lobby” and calls the proposed law “a serious overcorrection.” In the end, however, he endorses the bill, if the death provisions were removed.

“Let me be absolutely clear. I do not support the proposed anti-homosexuality law as written,” Lively says. “It does not emphasize rehabilitation over punishment and the punishment that it calls for is unacceptably harsh. However, if the offending sections were sufficiently modified, the proposed law would represent an encouraging step in the right direction.”

Lively, then, supports other controversial measures found in the bill, including criminalizing the “promotion of homosexuality,” which would effectively ban political organizations, broadcasters and publishers that advocate on behalf of gay rights, and turning friends and family members of gay men and lesbians into criminals if they failed to report a violation.

Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, a group that fights the “ex-gay” movement, recognized Bahati’s characterization of being gay as a “learned behavior [that] can be unlearned” as a quote from Richard Cohen’s “ex-gay” book Coming Out Straight.

“It is amazing that the lives of GLBT Ugandans hang in the balance because of an idiotic book printed by an obvious madman like Cohen,” Besen said.

“Is heterosexuality really that weak in Uganda?” he asked. “It sure seems like it based on the hysteria and pandemonium surrounding gay people. Particularly Mr. Bahati, who seems, based on his rhetoric, like he might mount a man any second if his clownish bill isn’t ramrodded through the legislature.”

Uganda and GENOCIDE. All because of people like this.

After you view the below link’s video (and if you still can hold your vomit inside), take a look at Mr. Richard Cohen’s past credentials.  How is it that people of this caliber and IQ can manipulate foreign government policy…. 

Ex-paster, Ex-gay Ted Haggard is back…….

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn’t the start of a new church, but a sign of his resurrection three years after he was forced to resign amid a sex scandal.

“For the people who come tonight, that means they believe in the resurrection in me,” he told reporters before the start of the meeting Thursday night. “Because I died. I was buried.”

Many of those who attended carried cookies, pies, and brownies along with their Bibles. By the time prayers began, more than 50 cars were parked outside the home. Reporters weren’t allowed inside.

The one-time evangelical superstar insisted that his intent is not to start a new church, but he isn’t ruling out the possibility. He said the reason for starting prayer meetings after three years of exile was a simple one.

“We were getting lonely,” he said.

Haggard, 53, began his journey to becoming one of the nation’s best-known evangelists in 1985 at his home, where he led people in worship. Out of those meetings grew New Life Church, which had about 14,000 members in 2006 and a $50 million prayer campus.

As head of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard had the ear of White House staffers, participating in conference calls with them and lobbying Congress for conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices.

In late 2006, Haggard’s life began to unravel when a male prostitute revealed the pastor had paid him for sex over three years. Haggard, who is married and has five children, said the sexual allegations were false, and admitted only to receiving a massage from his accuser and buying drugs from him.

“The essence of our faith as Christians is to forgive,” said Alan Hawkins, a pastor from Albuquerque, N.M., who traveled to Colorado Springs to be in Haggard’s living room Thursday. “When this thing happened, I said, ‘Ted, nobody is defined by their worst moments.’”

New Life Church pastor Brady Boyd issued a short statement on the eve of Haggard’s prayer meeting.

“New Life Church will always be grateful for the many years of dedicated leadership from Ted Haggard and we wish him and his family only the best,” Boyd said. The church said it would not comment further.

Haggard later confessed to “sexual immorality” and resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals. He also was forced out at the church he founded.

As part of a severance package with New Life Church, Haggard agreed to leave Colorado Springs for a period and not speak publicly about the scandal. The family moved back to their $700,000 home down the road from New Life Church in 2007.

Earlier this year, Haggard admitted he had an “inappropriate” relationship with a church volunteer a few years ago. Haggard said the relationship with the man, who was 22 at the time, did not involve physical contact.

Haggard, who developed an anti-gay reputation over the years, told KMGH-TV in an interview Wednesday that he has more compassion for gays because of his trials in recent years. Haggard has also said that when he was 7, a co-worker of his father’s molested him.

“People find it hard to stomach me,” Haggard admitted Thursday, before the steady stream of people started arriving at his home.

“I understand,” he said, a slight grimace on his face.

Even so, the people who showed up at his home were willing to give him a second chance.

“People love a good comeback story,” Haggard said.

These were actual Prop 8 commercials….

I gotta say, if this kinda crap was enough to convince people to vote against gay marriage in California, then we need to enact an IQ test before allowing a majority to vote for the rights of a minority.

Your sex change rights could be at risk!! Ah, I love satire.

HA! Adam and Eve, the gay version

Portia de Rossi – The View