George Oundo, the poster man for a campaign launched by U.S. ex-gay political leaders to promote vigilantism and arrest against same-sex-attracted persons in Uganda, has reportedly been expelled from his ex-gay organization due to sexual scandal.
Earlier this year, Oundo was a frontman for Martin Ssempa, a violently antigay African pastor who allegedly received substantial sums of money from U.S. global anti-AIDS programs begun under the Bush administration. Instead of combatting AIDS or promoting faith-based health assistance to Africans, Ssempa used the money to launch a string of violent antigay vigilante campaigns monitored by Human Rights Watch.
Hosted by Ssempa, Oundo and fellow ex-gay activists Stephen Langa and Paul Kagaba spent months accusing Uganda’s handful of native-born pro-equality advocates of conducting a massive Western youth-molestation conspiracy against the country. Unskeptical, antigay news media in Uganda lapped up the two ex-gay activists’ gossip and defamed not only gay Ugandans, but also the popular heterosexual Catholic priest Anthony Musaala, a rival to Ssempa. How did Kagaba know that Musaala was gay? Because, Kagaba said, Musaala “regularly holds parties for gays at his residence in Gayaza near Kampala.” Violence by antigay vigilantes, antigay arrests, and antigay hit lists ensued.
GayUganda said today that Oundo has been expelled from Ex-Gay Uganda:
According to Paul Kagaba, Ex-Gay Uganda Chairman, Oundo was taking boys to be “sodomised’ to his house. What I could have told Kagaba, and I have known for a few weeks, is that Oundo has been going around asking kuchus for “forgiveness’.
We await confirmation from other sources, and given Kagaba’s false accusations against gay Ugandans, his circular firing squad against Oundo must be viewed with some skepticism. However, it also seems quite feasible that Oundo was, all along, projecting his own alleged pedophilia onto innocent gay Ugandans, with the support of Martin Ssempa, U.S. taxpayer dollars, and Exodus International officials Alan Chambers and Don Schmierer.
As Truth Wins Out and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission have previously pointed out: Exodus board member Schmierer keynoted the vigilantes’ Kampala launch conference in March; Chambers approved of Schmierer’s trip beforehand, and applauded Schmierer’s speech afterward. Schmierer’s speech blamed parents and abuse for the formation of homosexual orientation. His co-speaker Scott Lively blamed homosexuals for the Nazi Holocaust and Rwandan genocide, while Ugandan ex-gay conference organizer Stephen Langa angrily complained that Uganda’s life-imprisonment sentence for homosexuality was far too lenient. A fourth speaker, U.S. ex-gay activist Caleb Lee Brundidge — a protege of former PFOX leader Richard Cohen — promoted magic rituals as a means of converting homosexual persons into heterosexuals.
Here is a prime example of the evil perpetrated upon innocents by the “ex-gay” movement. Their support of anti-gay bigotry in this case is perpetuating horrendous state sanctioned abuses (life in prison) and homophobia motivated attacks. This article should be seen as a cautionary tale about just how dangerous the people involved with ‘Exodus’ and other “ex-gay” groups are willing to be. Be careful!
Mark is absolutely right. Homophobia is a sin like lying, stealing and murder. God hates sin. As the Bible says, “You will know them by their fruits.” Homophobia, violence, lynching, vigilantism, harm, attacks and murder are “bad fruit.” As the Bible warns, “Bad fruit cannot come from a good tree.” Nothing good EVER comes from homophobia.
Alot of what you guys are saying here is so untrue. Who’s your source? Are you and they objective? I am Ugandan and have watched all these things happen and i can attest to the fact that your article is misguided and aimed at misguiding.What you are really doing hear is just spreading hate against anyone who may not approve of homosexuality-regardless of how they deal with their disapproval.Martin Ssempa,as he has unequivocally stated, is not against homosexuals as individuals but against the gay movement.He may be a passionate man but he certainly is not violent.And as for the Bush money you are talking about,there was a Global Fund probe done here in our country because many of the funds had been diverted by unscrupulous organizations.Pr. Martin Ssempa’s Campus Alliance to Wipe out AIDS defended their expenditures so well that it made the national news so i do not know what you are talking about unless this is just a smear campaign.
And what i find the most laughable is the statement that Fr.Anthony Musaala is a rival to Pr.Martin Ssempa.What on earth would a Roman Catholic priest and a baptist minister be rivaling about?People to come to their churches? ha ha ha. This is so pathetic!
Gerard said “Martin Ssempa,as he has unequivocally stated, is not against homosexuals as individuals but against the gay movement.”.
So, in other words as long as individual gays accept the beatings, harrassment, and jail terms, and oppression quietly he has no problem with them, but if they seek to end those injustices then he’s against that. Right, got it.
Way to dive-bomb your “ex-gay” career, Oundo!
George, meet OUR first failed public “ex-gay”……no, it’s not Roseanne Barr! His name is John Paulk.
i feel sorry for oundo…….i have heard him speak on different radio and tv stations, giving his story and exposing the homosexual agenda….What happened?….it seems he is looking for money from wherever…from the homosexuals and also from the ex-gay groups…CONFUSED he is an old man….i guess 30+ who is confused…SAD!!!….wondering how his end will be…..God help the man.
Ps.Ssempa has done a great work in uganda…….as for musala i dont know.
Kirabo, if you think SSempa did great work you probably think Hitler did great work as well. SSempa is an evil man. As for the gay “agenda”, it is to be treated equally, not to be assaulted, murdered, or imprisoned for being different. Gays are happy to expose this agenda of justice and goodness. You Kirabo, are an agent of evil.
Iget bothered when a “normal thinking person” tells me that being gay is human right,since when! This is utter confusion.Oundo is a man in a baby’s body. He himself came to SSempa Martin claiming he had abandoned the vice of homosexuality.As the bible says come as you are,so he came hoping to completely live sodomy but he stayed as he was. I believe Oundo is being used by gaymorrahs/sodomists to blackmail SSempa.
Ssempa is not against people who practise sodomy but the vice. for instance thats why he welcomed Oundo when he claimed that he had stoped being a sodomist.
I strongly believe that ssempa doesn’t have the lots of money you sodomists claim that he has but he is passionate nationaliist and minister of God who is after declairing the truth of God and also protecting the moral fibre of his country from some few confused people who claim to civilized but with no common sense of knowing that unlike poles attract and like poles repel.By the way even mosquitoes, frogs, chickens etc know this but human being fail to appreciate this.
We love you but hate the abominable vice you are doing.
Action speaks louder than words. Your “love the sinner, hate the sin” lie falls flat when one takes into account the hateful actions of the one you are trying to defend.
Malobs gayness is widespread in the animal kingdom, its been documented in thousands of different species. Read Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl and stop with the nonsense about what mosquitoes, frogs, and chickens know.
Spare us your lies about loving gays. Any action which does not hurt others is not an abominable vice. What is an abominable vice is interfering in the loving relationships of two humans of the same sex. If you experienced any love for gays whatsoever you’d accept that its moral and good for them to do whatever pleases them that does not harm others.
And I should add Molobs, its a human right to do anything a person wants as long as it does not hurt others. You and Ssempa are hurting innocent people – you are purveyors of evil.
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