Uganda Be Kidding Me. Part V

The gays, according to the far-right wingnut of a pastor, Lou Engle, are about as close to the Anti-Christ as it gets. On our buddy Rachel Maddow’s show, a video was aired where Engle himself said, regarding the overturn of Prop 8, “What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.”

Investigative journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who we featured yesterday, was recently in Uganda to carry out research for his upcoming book on the subject. As mentioned in yesterday’s post, while in Uganda Sharlet interviewed David Bahati—the author of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

What we didn’t mention in yesterday’s post was that Jeff Sharlet also attended “TheCall Uganda” while he was there. “TheCall” is the “prayer organization” led by Lou Engle, which opposes same-sex marriage, abortion, and Obama’s healthcare bill. Because they’re all the same, you know? All part of the big ass radical gay agenda. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: us gays love abortion.

Back to reality. So while in Uganda, Sharlet interviewed Bahati/Satan and listened to Lou Engle/Satan speak.

Bahati said, “Lou Engle expressed support for the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” That’s odd; Lou Engle himself has repeatedly and explicitly denied he supports the Ugandan Anti-Homosexual Bill as it, in his words, “does not reflect the character of Christ.” Interesting. This is the same man who, when speaking to the crowds in Uganda told the citizens of Kampala that homosexuals have penetrated the educational system and Ugandans must be aware of the evil. Whatever, Engle. Whatever you say.

According to university professor and scholar Warren Throckmorton, Jeff Sharlet personally informed him of the following.

About the disparity between Engle’s statements to the press and David Bahati’s recounting of Engle’s statements, Sharlet said, “Either Lou Engle isn’t telling the whole truth, or some of his key allies in Uganda aren’t. I attended his rally in Kampala in the company of Member of Parliament David Bahati, the author of the bill. After the rally, I rode with Bishop Oyet and Bahati in Bahati’s car to the Sheraton hotel.” (NOTE: Bishop Julius Oyet is a key promoter of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.)

Sharlet went on to say, “Engle’s latest statement prompts some points worth making in the meantime:

1. Both Oyet and Bahati were ecstatic at what they perceived as Engle’s strong support of the bill. They felt his rally and his statements would be a turning point for the bill, reassuring their Ugandan allies that they had support abroad.

2. Both Oyet and Bahati told me that Engle had explicitly expressed his support for the bill, telling them that he had to lie to the Western media because gays control it. They said he said one thing to the BBC and then walked over to Bahati and said that he really supported the bill. Either Engle isn’t telling the whole truth, or Oyet and Bahati aren’t. I tend to believe Bahati here, since Engle didn’t mean anything to him until he met him that day. He hadn’t heard of him and decided to attend the rally only after I’d told him a few things about Engle. In other words, he left the rally thrilled with Engle based on that encounter with Engle alone. Clearly, Engle did something to please him.”

The odd thing to me is how the Ugandans appears to be embracing Engle with wide open arms, when it seems to many as if the Ugandans as a people have been wanting to throw off the yoke of past colonialism and current influence from the Western world. According to the National Catholic Reporter “International pressure is growing within the Anglican Communion to take a stand against the measure [the Anti-Homosexual Bill], which has already been denounced by the Anglican Church of Canada. It’s entirely possible, however, that such moves may backfire, stirring resistance to outside interference. One local Anglican prelate said this in the wake of the Canadian resolution: “Ugandan Parliament, the watch dog of our laws, please go ahead and put the anti-gay laws in place. It is then that we become truly accountable to our young and to this country, not to Canada or England. We are in charge!”

Religion—and religious fervor—seem to have taken hold of this small East-African nation. Again, according to the National Catholic Reporter Uganda has a population of 32 million, roughly 40 percent Catholic. By mid-century the Catholic population should soar to 56 million, enough to make Uganda the sixth-largest Catholic nation in the world, ahead of such traditional Catholic powers as France, Italy, Spain and Poland. More Catholics than Spain and Italy? That’s saying something.

Let’s hope that whatever Catholocism means to these people—and likewise whatever God and Christianity means to them—that that true meaning is able to surface and take hold. Otherwise, God help us all…