Matt Barber, reacting to news that the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is now an officially recognized NGO at the United Nations:

“This once again just highlights the fact that President Obama is fully in the tank of the radical homosexual activist lobby,” notes Matt Barber, attorney and head of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel. “In keeping with his commitment to ram through his radical agenda, the president has once again circumvented the proper protocol and procedure in order to push a very unpopular policy.”

Barber thinks that flies in the face of efforts made by many countries to keep homosexual activists in the background at the U.N.

“[Obama] has thumbed his nose at all of the nations around the world that embrace sexual morality — and the president, in the name of the United States of America, has once again publicly embraced sexual immorality,” the Liberty Counsel attorney laments.

It must be confusing to be a wingnut. On the one hand, they are supposed to be constantly terrified of Islamic countries. They wax sanctimonious about how they are So Concerned about human rights violations in Iran and Afghanistan. But then, here you have Matt Barber “lamenting” that Obama is “thumb[ing] his nose at all of the nations around the world that embrace sexual morality.” He’s, of course, talking about Islamic theocracies and certain increasingly fundamentalist states in Africa, which hold similar “moral” stances to American wingnuts on the subject of LGBT people. Why is President Obama so mean to Iran? I mean, they believe in “traditional values,” just like Matt!

[h/t Mike Tidmus]

We received news passed along to us via South African Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation:

Heartened by support from prominent U.S. ex-gays — in particular, Exodus International board member Don Schmierer, ex-gay activist Scott Lively, and Richard Cohen protege Caleb Lee Brundidge — at a March 5-7 conference in Kampala, Uganda is moving forward with a campaign that was announced at that conference. Uganda intends to imprison gay Ugandans for their attraction, regardless of whether they are sexually active.

Church- and government-led vigilante campaigns require money to operate, and that money appears to be coming, in part, from U.S. taxpayers.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has uncovered evidence that the Bush administration had used anti-AIDS funds to subsidize groups in Uganda that actively promote violence and discrimination against lesbians and gay men. Among those receiving money, according to U.S. government records, were Uganda Muslim Tabliqh and the Makerere University Community Church. The church’ leader, Pastor Martin Ssempa, was a leading organizer of anti-gay rallies in Kampala. The supply of laundered has not yet been stopped by the Obama administration.

According to 365gay.com (April 6):

KAMPALA — The Ugandan government vowed to move forward with a bill that would toughen the country’ already harsh punishment of homosexuality. Sex between two people of the same sex already is a criminal offense in Uganda – punishable by life imprisonment – although there are no records of any recent convictions.

Now the government is prepared to expand the law, making it a criminal offense to be gay. The legislation would make any public display of being gay a crime.

International human rights and LGBT groups have called on Kampala to drop the bill and repeal the sodomy law.

Last week, about 20 gays and lesbians staged a rally in the capital denouncing the government. One woman said she was publicly stripped naked and taunted by a pastor and his congregation as they attempted to exorcise her.

Read more at 365gay.com.