In April 2009, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi said, "I am appalled to learn that the rumours we have heard for a long time about homosexual recruiting in our schools and amongst our youth are true. I am even more concerned that the practice is more widespread than we originally thought. It is the duty of the church and the government to be watchmen on the wall and to warn and protect our people from harmful and deceitful agendas."
[For the full paper, see here.]
In the above cited November 6, 2009 letter, the Rev. Canon Aaron Mwesigye of the Anglican Province of Uganda says this issue of increasing terms of imprisonment for Gay people is still being considered by the Church of Uganda so that The Church of Uganda is studying the proposed "Anti-homosexuality bill" and, therefore, does not yet have an official position on the bill.
This statement is profoundly offensive on its face! The Church of Uganda doesn't have an official position on imprisoning and depriving others of their liberties and freedom? What kind of "Christianity" does this obscenity represent? It's certainly not the Christianity of Jesus, of the Gospel of grace, of the Bible!
Some of the details of the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill are as follows:
Over recent months, there has been increased campaigning against homosexuality in Uganda, led by churches and anti-gay groups. The media have joined this campaign, and have publicly pointed to individuals they accuse of being gay or lesbian.
People suspected of being gay have faced death threats and been physically assaulted. Many have been ostracized by their families or faced discrimination, including dismissal from their place of employment.
This new draft bill includes a provision that could lead to the imprisonment for up to three years of anyone, including heterosexual people, who fails to report within 24 hours the identities of everyone they know who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or who supports human rights for people who are.
[For the full article, see here.]
Also:
The bill criminalizes "promotion of homosexuality" in the form of funding and sponsoring LGBT organizations and broadcasting, publishing, or marketing materials on homosexuality and punishes these acts with a steep fine, 5-7 years of imprisonment, or both. Any person in authority who fails to report known violations of the law within 24 hours will also be subject to a significant fine and up to 3 years in prison – even when this means turning in their colleagues, family, or friends. More shocking, the bill claims jurisdiction over Ugandans who violate its provisions while outside of the country.
The bill effectively bans any kind of community or political organizing around non-heteronormative sexuality.
[For the full article, see here.]
And so the Anglican Church of Uganda is "considering" such a bill, and those who do so portray themselves as "Christians!"
And, where is the outrage by most of the institutional Church? Where are those who are Christians indeed who are called to speak out against such an obscenity? How is it possible to sing "Amazing Grace" and other such hymns and feel no cognitive dissonance in either their advocacy or silence when such a Bill is "considered" by professing Christian clergy?
Where are those professing Christians who say, "Enough is enough! Not in the name of Jesus, not in the name of God, will you slander God, the Gospel, Christianity, and us by your ignorant and hateful prejudices that spit in the very face of God?
Those in the world-wide institutional Church who remain silent in the face of such an obscenity, of the oppression of LGBT people in the name of God, are just as guilty of the sufferings, suicides, assaults, murders, tortures, and imprisonment of LGBT people (and those perceived to be LGBT) than are the thugs who call themselves "Christians," yet whose hearts are filled with the values and prejudices of the demonic!
The level of homophobia within the institutional Church, and clergy rhetoric and discriminatory actions in both the religious and civic arenas, should leave us no doubt that the demonic has strongly infiltrated the institutional Church!
2 comments:
Exactly. Archbishop Henri Orombi of Uganda has been huffing and puffing himself up with his anti-LGBT rhetoric for years...he´s the same undesireable who has been attempting to instigate the horror of outcasting of LGBT Christians at all levels of Churchlife in the diocese of Los Angeles...the Supreme Court of California has denied him his greed and the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to take the case so the cohorts of Orombi have continued to stridently claim they OWN Episcopal Church property...no doubt, the end is near but not in UGANDA where Orombi, usually not present at home, has backed anti-LGBT legislation and outcasting...he even excommunicated a heterosexual retire Bishop who was ministering to suffering LGBT Anglicans. Now, this undercreep Canon, is saying the are ¨reviewing¨the legislation that they helped GENERATE!
These thugs give ordination to the priesthood a all new opportunity for muddying the holy water with such unlimited greed and deceit!
Thanks Leonardo. It's high time that we let the world know that there is a world of difference between "Christians" and "thugs." Because of demagogues and haters, much of the world doesn't see or know the difference. Best wishes, Jerry.
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