You are further remembered to say, "homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus (its) not a human right. We shall not tolerate this apect at all".
Let's see how Rick Warren gets out of this one! He won't. He'll offer vague platitudes to both sides, but Christianity in America ( as well as humanist/secular groups) and the Christian Right in Africa will look askance at Warren from now on: he will eventually be forgiven, but they will never forget.
"My influence in that nation has been greatly exaggerated by the media."
THIS LAST STATEMENT:
... belies the fact that, according to Rev. Kapya Kaoma (an Anglican pastor from Zambia and the author of a recent report on gays in Africa) Warren has immense influence among Uganda's political à ©lite, and the First Lady. "He eats with them, he knows what goes on, they respect him," said Kaoma in a conference call.
So Rick Warren is now, as they say, between a rock and a hard place. He and the rest of the Christofascist Right gambled on a gullible public in one country and an uninformed public in another. Now they're success in exporting homophobia is coming back to bite them.
Bite hard, Uganda, bite HARD!
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