Influential Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote an excellent column today, calling on Rick Warren and other evangelicals to do more to stop Uganda’s heinous Anti-Homosexuality Bill. According to Parker:
The proposed law is a case study in the unintended consequences of moral colonialism….If we (Rick Warren) decide that genocide is too political for interference, then what good is moral leadership?…
….Other evangelical Christians operating in Uganda are less easily excused from responsibility in the country’s increasingly hostile attitudes toward gays. Often cited as having stirred the pot are pastors Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge and Don Schmierer, who last March worked with Ugandan faith leaders and politicians to help stop the “homosexualization” of the country….
…In a “Meet the Press” interview last November, Warren said he never takes sides, but one wishes he would. To borrow his own words, it is in certain cases extreme, unjust and un-Christian not to.
Parker is correct to say that Warren and other evangelicals have not done enough, considering their deep involvement in Uganda. At Truth Wins Out, we warmly welcomed Warren’s denunciation of the hate bill, however, that was merely covering his behind.
If Warren and others (Alan Chambers, James Inhofe, and Doug Coe – I mean you) are serious about stopping the persecution, imprisonment and murder of innocent people, they will board planes to Kampala this week and speak directly to the people and lawmakers of Uganda. They helped cause this horrific mess, so it is their duty to clean it up.
I just checked Orbitz and confirmed that flights still fly to Kampala. Will any evangelical butts fill the seats? Or, do they only light fires in places like Uganda and then butt out when there is too much heat in the kitchen?
The world is watching….and these “moral leaders” will be judged by their action — or inaction.
Radical anti-gay activists including Warren and “Exodus” have lit this fire in Africa. The blood of gay people is on their hands. They may try to wash it off, but the stain is not going away. The only way for them to stop it is to renounce homophobia and stop promoting it around the world. Homophobia is not a legitimate religious belief and decent Americans should condemn it loudly and often when others use God to justify it.
michael
i’ve tried to make this clear to you before, but
i’ll try one more time: taking a stand for and
defending the truth of God’s word(and His word does
indeed teach that sex between two prople of the
same sex is sin) is what we as christians are
supposed to do.
1. the bible does condemn not condone gay sex
2. gay sex is unnatural from a biological
stand point as human bodies were not designed
for male to male or female to female sex
3. It is true that as gay sex is unnatural that
those who participate in it have a significantly
higher risk of contacting sexual diseases
especially aids. even you people here on
this blog would not deny the fact that gay
men as a group are responsible for a dispro-
portionate amount of the aids cases reported
between 45 and 50%
You have no evidence of anything you say, so you might as well stop saying it.
Seriously, I don’t know what pathological need you have to troll gay blogs (got a secret?), but it’s boring, because you add nothing of substance to any discussion.
Gay men are not “responsible” for AIDS cases, and it’s grotesque for you to say that. It happened to hit our community in this country first. That’s all.
You have no evidence that bodies were “designed” for any kind of sex, since you have no evidence that they were “designed” for anything. Also, gay sex works pretty damn well. You wish you knew.
And it’s not your responsibility to tell other people what to do, especially when you can’t type in complete sentences or all the way to the end of the line.
Brad, you view God’s real word with contempt. We’ve demonstrated before that you have minimal knowledge of the Bible, and even less understanding.
So I suggest your reconsider lecturing people to view the Bible with the same self-serving contempt that you do.
Brad might be intrested to know that homosexual behaviour is also observed in the rest of the animal kingdom. Furthermore, being natural or unatural says nothing about right or wrong. That’s a oomplete fallacy. Finally, he’s neglecting the fact that heterosexual sex also transmit disease. In fact, one of the most common way to contract STD is through childbirth.
Brad says “2. gay sex is unnatural from a biological
stand point as human bodies were not designed
for male to male or female to female sex”.
Human bodies were not designed, they evolved. Gay sex exists throughout nature, it couldn’t be more natural.
Brad said “3. It is true that as gay sex is unnatural that
those who participate in it have a significantly
higher risk of contacting sexual diseases
especially aids.”.
False. Those in monogamous gay relationships have zero risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Gay sex does not cause disease, promiscuity does and causes disease in heterosexals just as surely as it does in gays.