I had wondered, since he had been strangely silent on the issue, most likely because his friend Scott Lively has been so intimately involved in the situation.
But for the record, Peter thinks the genocide is A-OK, and that Americans are arrogant for thinking it’s okay to interfere. Oh, he doesn’t say it that explicitly, but from the entire tone of the piece, it can be ascertained that Pete hasn’t lost much sleep over the plight of dark-skinned gays in a land that he couldn’t identify on a map even if you were threatening to hit “delete” on his file folder full o’ Folsom photos.* He adds some throwaway line at the end about supposedly not having studied the legislation in Uganda, but what part of “death penalty for gay people” requires further study, Pete? Do you need to get out your magnifying glass or something?
Elsewhere in his post, before he quote Robert Knight’s dishonest, genocide-defending screed in full (which I tore apart here), Peter takes some time to complain (yet again) that Warren Throckmorton has discovered his soul and is trying to work against some of the more violent and hateful forces for which he used to apologize. This is to be expected because, much like a wealthy white person who defends the rights of the poor and minorities is often viewed by her peers as a class traitor, Peter is probably more burned by Throckmorton’s “betrayal” than he ever could be about something so quaint as mass murder against an entire sector of the Ugandan population.
Also, Peter issues a “challenge to accomodationists” like Throckmorton wherein he will “stand corrected” if somebody can show him where sexual orientation “as this concept is currently understood and posited in academia, the media and society” is mentioned in the Bible. I don’t know why this is really a challenge, because nobody claims that the Bible accurately describes sexual orientation. The Bible also fails to accurately describe microbiology, climatology, Keynesian economic theory, Ugg boots, iPhones, Jersey Shore and Snuggies, but that’s not an argument for their nonexistence. Or maybe it is in Peter’s world. Maybe he just hasn’t written a column called “Blankets don’t have sleeves and Wayne Besen is mean for saying they do!” yet.
So now we’re caught up on what Peter thinks about Uganda. We can go back to grown-up stuff now, until next time.
Alvin has more here.
*Say that five times fast.
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Murder is a sin, period. Anyone who refuses to denounce it is immoral, period, end of story. No matter how much radical anti-gay activist LaBarbera tries to dance around the issue, murder is wrong. It’s not “loving,” “moral” or acceptable. If a person really has Christ’s love in his heart, he condemns murder. If he doesn’t condemn it….well…as the Bible says, “The tree is known by its fruit.”
Comment by Michael — January 21, 2010 @ 9:07 am
Exactly, Michael.
There is no nuance here.
Comment by Evan Hurst — January 21, 2010 @ 9:12 am
Warren Throckmorton is to be commended for his role in speaking out against the bill in Uganda. He should wear Peter LaBarbera’s condemnation as a badge of honor.
Comment by Wayne Besen — January 21, 2010 @ 10:22 am
Labarbera and the like try to hide behind their claim that they really love gays, but this shows the truth – they really would prefer to see gays put to death.
Comment by Priya Lynn — January 21, 2010 @ 12:58 pm
I can’t resist mentioning that the bible also says nothing about the true age of the earth, the high probability that Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with our solar system, and of course, plate tectonics… ;-)
Comment by adrianT — January 21, 2010 @ 1:44 pm
Or candy canes or sporks or Republicans or bangle bracelets or Taylor Swift or Manifest Destiny or Glenn Beck or Muslims or Spiderman or bumpits or Funyuns or dark matter or really anything else of use, for that matter.
Comment by Evan Hurst — January 21, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
Priya, I don’t think LaBarbera claims to love gay people, at least not with the frequency and false piety demonstrated by Exodus, FOTF, NARTH, and PFOX.
Comment by Michael Airhart — January 21, 2010 @ 2:17 pm
I thought I had heard him make a claim to love gay people – I could be mistaken.
Comment by Priya Lynn — January 21, 2010 @ 2:25 pm
I think he pays it lip service like once in a blue moon.
Comment by Evan Hurst — January 21, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
Come now Evan… think of all the stuff it has to say on ‘how to kill a goat, or a bull, or a ram… or how to twist the head off a turtledove…’ ;-)
(this mr deity sketch sums it up)
http://www.youtube.com/user/misterdeity#p/u/13/b4F5z8cVux0
Comment by adrianT — January 21, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
[...] Peter now condemns Warren Throckmorton, a Christian professor at Grove City College (PA), for his urging Ugandan Christians to remember Jesus’ words. “I urge my brethren in beautiful Uganda to follow the example of Jesus. Please, for the sake of Christ, put down your stones.” [...]
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