VIDEO: Nightline’s News Segment about Uganda’s Kill-the-Gays Bill
4About the Author
Michael Airhart is a news editor, digital media technician, founder of Ex-Gay Watch, and advocate for free speech, freedom of religion, and human rights. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Related Posts
America may not be perfect but it is a great place to be. The values and trues that it stands for is why it remains a epitome that other nations/ national aspire to come to. It is still a wonder to me that we ‘Christians’ in the name of God continually pertetrate the very ills that even God many times does not sanction. If we are unclear about certain issues, we should stay away from it. We should not wreck more havoc than there is already.
Watching the video, I still wonder about the needs of the very people that the Evangelicals are reaching. Is that the best we can do at the moment? Raising sexuality discord and thinking we are doing God a favor? People being killed because of our actions and we feel justified over it for sanctity measures? That does not in anyway sound like the Jesus I read about in the Bible in anyway.
I just bleed in my heart because we think we know, sometimes we are sincerely wrong. The same rationales for our action is why we make God of no effect. The people who ‘think’ wonder about the God who can kill to protect some ‘sanctity’. I can boldly say it is not the God that I serve though. It still puzzles me though to think that someone who lives and enjoys the liberty in the US would rather make comments about it’s dilapiated estate. The same person if given the option to choose between the US and the so-called un-corrupted nation, I wonder if the choice would be to settle in the latter?
NB: I am of African origin too.
I can’t believe this reporter didn’t mention Lively’s organizations are SPLC-certified hate groups, or mention by name the other two evangelicals from the US who participated in that conference with Lively – Don Schmierer of Exodus International and Caleb Brundidge of the International Healing Foundation.
Yomzy… What nation are you talking about? The USA has become the laughting stock of most European countries and of course our neighbor Canada. This is not only for its misstreatment of lgbt but also for its bass ackwards approaches to scientific consensus like evolution, medical revolutions like stem cell reasearch, and female reproductive rights. We are a nation of increasing science illiteracy and at the same time increasing fundamentalism. Tell me… When the fourteenth and fifth amendments no longer apply because it is now legally viable to strip minorities of fundamental rights, like marriage, as long as the reason for doing so is based off of religion; what does that say about the USA? The USA is no longer a symbol of equal freedom, just one of absolute religious freedom. Or as it should be incribed: a third world country. If you are lgbt, or any minority the USA is not even close for making the top thirty of countries to live in.
Chris. Thanks for the comments. The fact of the matter is… It’ very complicated. This goes a long way to only unveil our human nature. We have our biases interwoven into every facet of our lives. Recognizing that we may be biased even with the best of intentions is the way to start a course towards reconciliation.
The mere understanding that people can still be this biased in a country like the US despite the necessary frameworks in place to ensure justice, fairness and equity to all should only deepen our understanding of the true human nature. Now imagine countries without these frameworks in place, people will generally take laws into their owns hand to foster the stereotype. We then ask, where is the spice? where is the ingenuity, where is independence?
We can be different yet still respectable to another. I still think that it is still much better here in the US even though it’s not perfect here too. People are people and change takes time…