Uganda President Yoweri Museveni
The Current TV series Vanguard has covered this difficult subject in a show titled "Missionaries of Hate." The documentary shows how a visit by homophobic American evangelists, like Dr. Scott Lively, led to Ugandan politicians proposing legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by life in jail or death.
American-trained evangelists are also using slick tactics to whip up hatred towards gays. Homosexuality is largely a taboo subject in Africa, and I don't see this changing. African culture is largely geared around family and producing children, and gays simply don't fit into the structure.
If that wasn't bad enough you have ministers like Martin Ssempa, who have launched a holy crusade against gays and likened them to demons. Ssempa uses shock tactics, which would not be tolerated in America, such as showing images of hard-core gay pornography involving anal sex and scat play. (If you don't know what that is look it up!)
This leaves his followers gagging in revulsion and ready to string up the nearest gay person. Ssempa is following the same tactics that were used in Nazi Germany and judging by the violent, and unstable nature of African countries, it's easy to see a country launching a deadly purge of gays. I feel sorry for the gay people profiled in this documentary, who would be better of seeking asylum in the West.
It seems nothing has changed. Africans are still swallowing the worst aspects of Western culture and religion is still being used to enslave the minds of Africans. Uganda has more pertinent issues such as corruption, poverty,a long-standing civil war and an AIDs pandemic.
But it makes you wonder why does a Christian minister have hard-core gay porn on his computer? Lively, the American preacher, looks like a "bear," which is not suprising. Most Africans are unaware that the American "ex-gay" movement is riddled with closeted gay men, like the recent defrocked George Rekers. Michael Bussee and Gary Cooper, two of the founders of the Ex-gay movement, later quit and end up falling in love with each other. And we are all aware of the gay sex scandal that felled Ted Haggard, head of the National Association of Evangelicals.
