With the National Prayer Breakfast upon us, backed by radical homophobes The Family, it's a good time to examine the world's deadly climate for gay people.
The prayer breakfast is a display of power for an underground religious group that often shapes U.S. foreign policy in ways that sometimes conflict with our policy goals.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 4, 2010.
Three American evangelicals affiliated with gay conversion groups spoke in Uganda last month on "the gay agenda" and its threat to the traditional African family.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: World. December 10, 2009.
When Rick Warren's colleagues in Uganda crafted a new law that carries the death penalty for gay people with HIV, the pastor was silent. Under pressure, he finally speaks.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. December 1, 2009.
On Meet the Press, David Gregory never asked about Warren's tacit support for Uganda's gay-execution law, or challenged Warren's description of abortion as a "holocaust."
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: World. November 30, 2009.
Warren refuses to reject the radical ideas of Martin Ssempa, a rabidly anti-choice and anti-gay Ugandan pastor who has visited to his Saddleback Church.
Uganda is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. And a secretive group of American politicians appears to be a driving force behind the law.
