Remember the tragic story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein? Playing God, Victor made himself a monster. And then the monster killed everything the good doctor loved, leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake. Victor's sin was not making the monster, Victor's sin was playing God.
With that in mind, the raging debate on how American Christianity and American financial aid influenced pan-African criminalization of homosexuality and its gay genocide companion seems irrelevant to me. It's done. Dr. Yankee Doodle Frankenjesus has done his job importing the scourge of American religion-based bigotry to the barely functional societies of black Africa.
The only question that now concerns me? Who and how will we hold American Christianity responsible for playing God and making the monster?
African Christians have convinced themselves that homosexuality is an American import like Hula Hoops and Madonna. Of course, it's not homosexuality that is the American import, it is government-sponsored homophobia.
American Christians--from rural missionaries to prominent national Evangelical leaders like Rick Warren--have spent the last few decades lecturing African governments on how to stop the sinful horrors of homosexuality that infect the American landscape from infecting the innocent cultures of black Africa.
And now that the monster is born and threatening mass murder on a Hitlerian scale, Dr. Frankenjesus mocks us with faux regret.
What will American Christianity do to atone for it's monstrous sin? And to what degree will our supposedly ethical society demand accountability from those among us who have done no less than American fascists of the 1920s and 30s who helped finance and legitimize the emergence of the Third Reich?
Furthermore, what will we learn as a nation from the irresponsible hate mongering of American Christianity that will deliver tens of thousands of gay corpses in Africa but is unquestionably also responsible for thousands of gay bashing victims within our own borders?
Freedom of religion was intended to protect followers of religions from persecution, not legitimize religion-based hate mongering and now genocide.
So called Freedom of Religion has been used to justify a mountain of heinous crimes against humanity and even our progressive President seems incapable of facing this horror film come to life reality. We are all so terrified of the Frankenjesus monster.
As we move into the second decade of the 21st Century, let us "pray" that the barbarism of religion--so appallingly exemplified and modeled by American Christianity can be contained by democratic moral and ethical principles.
In Africa, Dr. Frankenjesus has shown himself for what he truly is--in Burundi, Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda, Nigeria and too many other African nations--in fact a total of 37 African nations have already criminalized homosexuality. And most of the nations are still receiving lavish financial aid from the Obama Administration and American Evangelical churches.
The true nature of American Christianity is clearly reflected in the nightmarish mirror of Africa, and most recently Uganda.
Uganda is the true face of Rick Warren and Exodus International. Make no mistake about it.
Scott Lively, the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization and the author of a book that claims that homosexuality is a driving force behind Nazism, recently spoke with NPR.
"I've been to Africa many times actually. I'm a missionary, and I was invited to speak at a conference in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. While I was there I had the opportunity to address members of the Ugandan Parliament regarding this bill that was proposed at that time. They were considering how to address what they perceive as a rise of aggressive political activism from American and European gay activists. And my advice to the parliament was to go the other direction from what they did to actually go on a proactive positive message promoting the family, promoting marriage, etcetera, through the schools," explained Lively.
Lively admits to NPR that he advocates the criminalization of homosexuality but he defends himself by claiming that African government should focus on rehabilitation and not punishment--once the arrest is made. Lively's trip to campaign for the criminalizaton of homosexuality was paid for through tax exempt dollars of course.
NPR asks Lively if he thinks that his views played a role in the new Uganda death-sentence legislation.
Lively protests: "I wasn't consulted on this law before they drafted it. I happened to be there for a conference dealing with the issue generally. They had asked me, you know, what is this homosexual movement? How come these people are coming into our country with this? How have they been able to achieve their advances in other countries, so that we can effectively prevent them from doing the same thing to our country? My approach was proactive and positive on the side of promoting the family model, the marriage model."
NPR then asks Lively what his reaction was when he heard that the death penalty was being proposed for so-called aggravated homosexuality, for certain acts, and that it was proposed to turn people into the police for not reporting what they believed to be homosexual behavior?
Lively says: "My interest in this topic, and my opposition to homosexuality, is not coming from a place of opposition to individuals based on how they want to define themselves. It's based on the public policy ramifications of mainstreaming something that I believe is destructive to society and harmful to individuals."
"The law in Uganda is extreme, even by African standards, but the fallout may be a preview of Africa’s own version of a 'culture war,' " explains one African journalist.
"Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and their neighbors are connected by mobile populations and religious networks. Many influential leaders in Rwanda are, in fact, Ugandan; they grew up in Uganda, speak English, and hear voices like Stephen Langa, Scott Lively, Martin Ssempa, and Rick Warren coming across the airwaves. That even includes Rwandan President Paul Kagame; similarly, his wife grew up in Burundi, then lived in both Kenya and Uganda.
"The connections are evident on the op-ed pages of Rwanda's newspapers."
"These homos are probably running out of Uganda and coming to Rwanda, where there is no specific law that prohibits them from practicing this forbidden habit," wrote one contributor to The New Times, Rwanda's state-owned paper.
"Just like Ugandans have passed the antigay bill, Rwandans too should follow this path in order to maintain the integrity and dignity that we have held for all these decades."
American missionaries have been teaching their monstrous bigotry throughout these nations for many decades and most recently supported by billions of dollars in financial aid from Washington, begun by the Bush Administration and now continuing under the Obama Administration.
The blood of gay Africans is on the hands of American Christianity but also on the hands of Washington--including the hands of our "African" American President who daily "signs" checks that support the governments that are moving swiftly to commit mass murder of gay Africans.
THIS JUST IN!
In late breaking news over the holidays, the Ugandan leadership is considering a softening stance on homosexuality based on threats from the EU to cut off badly needed financial aid.
Uganda's ethics and integrity minister Nsaba Buturo said the revised law would most likely make life in prison the maximum penalty for offenders. "There have been a lot of discussions in government regarding the proposed law, but we now think a life sentence could be better because it gives room for offenders to be rehabilitated," he said. "Killing them might not be helpful," he added.
Dr. Yankee Doodle Frankenjesus will likely declare a moral leadership victory.
At the moment "progressives" worry over who will stop Uganda. I worry over who will stop American Christianity.
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