Box Turtle Bulletin is doing lots of heavy lifting covering the advancement of the Kill the Gays Bill in Uganda advanced by American Christianist evangelicals and Republican politicians. Under the bill, if you live in Uganda, know someone who's gay, and don't turn them in for trial and imprisonment, you yourself could get three years in the can. And if the government thinks a Ugandan national living abroad is gay, they can start extradition proceedings.
It's hard to see much difference between this advancing legal regime and that of the Nazi government in the war years. But the indifference of "civilized" nations seems much of a muchness.
The Anglicans of Uganda (the second largest Anglican province in the world) continue to demand the expulsion of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion because we ordain gay and lesbian persons. At the same time that they support this effort to enact terrible criminal penalties for Ugandan homosexuals. If you search the Anglican Communion web site, you will find no condemnation of their persecution of gays and lesbians, only references to the need for sensitive listening to their concerns about the Episcopal Church. I find this deeply disturbing, and not very Christian.
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