Yesterday, I posted a quick quote from Mediaite that referenced the fact that Pastor Rick Warren -- the Oprah of pop-Christianity and very wealthy author of those insipid Purpose-Driven Life books -- apparently has close connections to a Ugandan minister who supports a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals in that country. Well, without really meaning to, I stumbled across an article in Politics Daily that takes a close look at the Ugandan Final Solution, and details the link that some ultra-conservative American Evangelicals have to the East African government now considering it.
It's honestly shocking, eye-opening stuff.
Basically it works like this: In much the same way that Naomi Klein made the case that American intervention in Iraq was aimed at least in part at creating a blank-slate state where multinational business interests could flourish without any of those pesky regulations that can occasionally stand in the way of good, old-fashioned unfettered greed -- Uganda and emerging Third World nations like it are providing the perfect petri dish for ass-backward far-right religious ideals that have for the most part been laughed out of Western society. The piece explains how guys like Scott Lively of Abiding Truth Ministries -- an organization which believes it can "cure" homosexuality -- are traveling to Uganda to help sow the seeds of zero tolerance abroad, since they can't seem to do it here at home. They're even preaching the need for Ugandans to stand firm against the influence of "anti-family Western agitators" whom they claim are trying to spread godless sexual deviance throughout the developing world.
But if Uganda -- remember, the country that gave the world that warm and cuddly humanitarian Idi Amin -- starts executing gays, how much if any responsibility will the American Evangelicals who helped stir the pot of hatred in a foreign land bear for such a reprehensible injustice?
Trust me -- read this article:
Politics Daily: If Uganada Executes Gays, Will American Christians Be Complicit?/12.2.09
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