Ugandan Pastors Attack Each Other Over Sodomy

First let’s get a few things clear.

I know, and many people know that a number of people have claimed that Pastor Kayanja has engaged in gay sexual activity over many years. It has also been claimed that Pastor Kiweweesi of Kansanga fame has been witnessed with young men whose relationship with him remained as mysterious as the reason he threw a wedding in a 40,000 seater stadium (and failed to get even a 10th of the seating capacity to attend) when a more modest venue would also have done very well.

AfroGay has heard regularly [read a friend of a friend of a friend] that homosexual activity is rife in Pastoral circles. I heard about Pastor Kiwewesi’s homosexual exploits as far back as six years ago but, not one to mind other people’s business, generally ignored the rumors. Earlier than that, though, a friend of a friend of a friend (you catch my drift) described an encounter he claimed at the time to have witnessed in London between Pastor Kayanja and a rather good looking and flamboyantly gay Ugandan young man which the friend of a friend of a friend swore on a dirty and chipped axe had been sexual. Again, I chose to mind my own business and took in the rather juicy story with a pinch of salt.

Now, The Monitor and New Vision have waded into the controversy and my mind has gone back to all those years ago. Boys are crawling out of the woodwork to regale gleeful listeners about their sordid encounters with influential pastors and, predictably, the damage limitation has gone into overdrive. By coincidence, no doubt, Pastor Kayanja has offered huge sums of money to renovate the police post at which some of the allegations against him were filed. Nice work if you have the money to be so charitable to a specific police post.

As with the allegations against Father Musaala by Georgina Oundo, I have never been a fly on the wall in any of these people’s dark rooms but it is certainly interesting that Kayanja should single out Old Kampala police post for his newly found philanthropy at a time when that police post is in charge of the case that has been leveled against him. Poor Father Musaala of course had no money to donate to the Red Pepper or Martin Ssempa (Ssempa gets so much money from US based backers that the Vatican bank would have to be brought into the fray to make any kind of financial impression on him) so he was out on a limb when a desperate Georgina started squealing his guts like a canary. And with just Georgina’s word against a man on the back foot, the damage done to Father Musaala is likely incalculable.

What all this says very clearly is that money talks. Kayanja has opted to throw money at his problem and if the response from the police is anything to go by, his strategy is working. Pastor Kiwewesi did the same, turning the tables on the man who accused him of buggery (Why is it always buggery? Couldn’t these guys just say that he eyed them amorously, made love to them or caressed them lovingly as they were dressing up in the vestry?) and accusing him of theft and all sorts of other underhanded things. In that case, too, the police chose to believe Kiweweesi’s version rather than the man claiming to have been buggered on many occasions by the good pastor.

Like with Father Musaala, it is all rumors. But these pastors have deep pockets as well as influential friends which is why they are sitting pretty and the police is doing the apologizing on their behalf. Pastor Kayanja has the First Lady of Uganda, Janet Museveni, eating out of the palm of his hands and it is rumored that she spoke to the people who mattered when truck-loads of smuggled wine were intercepted twice within a space of 12 months at his palatial lakeside mansion and the charges were fudged and eventually dropped without an investigation, and instead a lowly security guard was accused of masterminding the multi-million smuggling operations.

But since it is rumors that have essentially turned Father Musaala into a fugitive, AfroGay feels free to indulge in some rumor mongering of his own. I once heard from a rather dispassionate voice (someone who had no reason to lie) that a fellow pastor had once walked in on Pastor Kiwewesi [not that it is relevant to the discussion but the name Kiweweesi crudely translates into 'the act of amorous petting' in English] in flagrante delicto with a young man. The shocked pastor bolted out of the vestry but decided to wait in the the Church to confirm whether his eyes had played tricks on him. The figure who emerged from the vestry was indeed a [now fully dressed] young man who proceeded to beat a hasty exit. Pastor Kiwewesi [also now fully clothed] followed soon after. That is not the only story of Kiweweesi’s gay exploits that AfroGay has heard about from sources that will remain unnamed but, as the Timex song goes … this is only rumors.

And since it is rumors that have essentially put Father Musaala on the defensive, to the level where his entire body of work could be destroyed by uncorroborated gossip, AfroGay feels it fair to continue indulging in a little more tattle telling of his own. The confidante who related the encounter in London with Pastor Kayanja sometimes embellishes stories in the telling. But his description of being pursued and eventually being had by Pastor Kayanja had such a ring of truth to it that one cannot help but wonder. For one, Pastor Kayanja kept on frantically calling this young man, and the young man knew rather intimate details of Kayanja’s brief itinerary in London, including where he was staying, how long, what his free time was and so on. Secondly, there was no other obvious reason why Kayanja would want to hang out with this young man since they didn’t seem to have anything else in common. So, while I still treat the narrative about Kayanja’s gay exploits with this fellow in London with a pinch of salt, there is enough circumstantial evidence to make it plausible that the two had moments of passionate embrace that was more than just Christian fellowship.

But … it is all rumors. And perhaps it is not a bad time to pass around excerpts of the lyrics to Timex’s Rumors:

How do rumors get started? They are started by the jealous people and they get mad about somthin’they had, and somebody else is holdin’/They tell me that temptation is very hard to resist/ …

You can check out the rest of the song here.

 

Cardinal "mourns" homosexuality

Another Sunday, another meandering ode from the pulpit. This time it was apparently Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala engaging in the usual sort of imaginative interpretation of Biblical text.

Money quote:

The cardinal also says homosexuality is against God’s commandments and the teachings of Jesus Christ and that homosexuality has made the church of God to enter into a sad and an outrageous moment in the church history.

Sounds like creative preaching on account of Cardinal Wamala. Homosexuality is not mentioned anywhere in God’s commandments and it was certainly not mentioned at all by Jesus. But it is impossible that the good Cardinal doesn’t know this. Or is it?

And what is it about this headline that keeps one thinking that it is meandering, too? Might UPN perhaps have meant to say ” Cardinal bemoans homosexuality?” Else, if he were ‘mourning’ homosexuality, what had happened to homosexuality for the cardinal to mourn it? Was it dead? Obviously not since one wouldn’t expect the top Catholic cleric in the land to talk about homosexuality in the terms reported if it were dead. On the other hand, if he was actually mourning homosexuality because it had passed away, that is game, set and match for the Catholic Church and Pastor Ssempa.

The complexities of the English language …

Paraguay’s President was let off the hook by the Pope! 4

Just as my heart continues to bleed for Father Musaala whose reputation has been raked through the mud by money hungry desperadoes, a ray of light shoots out of Paraguay.

Paraguays’ President, Fernando Lugo, was a Catholic priest before he was granted permission to leave the priesthood which he did and run for elected office. But the BBC reports that, before he left the priesthood, he failed to live up to his vows of celibacy and was united with a woman. The union resulted in a child, a boy who is now 1-year-old.

Not to make any assumptions about Father Musaala’s case but might not this be suggestion enough that there is life after priesthood should it indeed come to that? Methinks it will be the Catholic Church’s loss if it forces Musaala out because Musaala is likely as talented, if not more talented, than Fernando Lugo.

And with the number of Catholic priests worldwide dwindling, mainly on account of the celibacy demand, you would think the Vatican would understand the value of the gem that is Father Musaala. Sadly, the Vatican rarel shows that its office holders live on the same planet as the rest of us.

We wait with bated breath.

Father Musaala Defended Over Homosexuality 4

Interesting news coming out of Uganda as the article Father Musaala defended over homosexualityreveals.

Money excerpts for me:

Explaining why people take to homosexuality, the dancing priest, as he is sometimes called, blamed the desire for money and “inherent feelings that drive them”. His involvement, he said, was limited to helping the gay abandon the practice some of whom “want to commit suicide”. “I want to show them the true
path to salvation,” he said. “This is a journey that requires someone to walk with as a guide.” “These people are stigmatised and I am totally against this because they need our help,” said Musaala. Quoting the Catholic Church rules, Musaala described homosexuality as a “disorder” and “a trial” for those involved. “They must be accepted with respect, compassion and responsibility,” he quoted the rules. “Every sign of their discrimination should be avoided.”

No he didn’t!

Well, maybe he did. We know that Paul Kagaba who is currently squealing his guts out like a stuck pig is a prostitute who has been having gay sex for money for years. We know that he is also a thief who often fleeced his victims, like a preying mantis, after he had sex with them, and fled with their valuables. We also know that George “Georgina” Oundo has always been a low life, broke and desperate she-man who would do anything for money. If Musaala is talking about those two and their types then I can understand why he may have referred to the desire for money. But, obviously, many of us are gay and money has nothing to do with our gay feelings. I don’t know whether or not Musaala knows this but I trust he does given that he has counseled so many “inherently” gay men and women.

Where I find that Musaala is on tricky ground is his reference to Catholic doctrine and “helping [gays] abandon the practice … true path to salvation.” I wasn’t there when he said what he did but I hope that he is being misrepresented. That sort of stuff rings politically correct to a Catholic audience but I am afraid it can create confusion and the very stigma and feelings of helplessness that Father Musaala seeks to banish.

Many gays look for support and salvation as inherently gay men, meaning that they are not looking to change but to be comfortable with who they are. I would imagine that many such men have approached Father Musaala for guidance and support. The Catholic Church (and here I am not singling out Musaala since I have never been in his confessional or counseling sessions) might want to argue that it is there to guide those with wayward feelings back to the straight and narrow. But what about those who seek the Catholic Church’s counsel because they want to be comfortable in their homosexuality?

The Vatican admits that there are gays who are inherently so. That means that they cannot be changed. What is the message it has for those? In the 1986 Vatican encyclical that dealt with this subject, it suggested that they should be celibate and chaste. Huh? Where is the reality there? It also suggested that men and women who were naturally gay might nonetheless be encouraged to form unions with the opposite sex. But this contradicts another tenet of human relationships which the Catholic Church itself encourages, namely that unions should be emotionally as well as physically unitive.

If you are naturally a gay man, and the Vatican admits that some people are so, and you marry a woman, you form a physically unitive marriage but it will never be emotionally unitive because your heart will never be in it. In that sense you will be punishing [abusing?] the woman who will get only a part of you – the physical – and remain emotionally unfulfilled because you can only be emotionally fulfilled by a man. This is exactly the dilemma people like Ted Huggard and all those other closet homosexuals grapple with and fail to conquer. They can perform physically but will never ever be emotionally united with their wives and so they run to male prostitutes or find a male lover on the side. The situation is exactly the same for lesbians who are forced into straight marriages. If the Catholic Church has anything coherent to say about whether there is any value in getting into an emotionally empty relationship, someone needs to say what it is.

But back to the words attributed to Musaala. Obviously, as a Catholic priest he has to espouse Catholic doctrine else he has to resign from his office. But I am not a Catholic Priest and, truth be told, I don’t even believe in the Catholic religion, so I can challenge the premise Musaala’s religion advances. I found the true path to salvation when I became comfortable with my homosexuality. I don’t want to sleep with women because though it worked physically when I tried it, emotionally it was hell on earth. I come alive with a man and I find emotional as well as physical fulfilment only with a man. I thus don’t want any salvation from what I am. Finally, I don’t want to abandon the practice, I don’t want to commit suicide and I don’t regard my homosexuality as a disorder … not the norm, yes, but certainly not a disorder. I suppose this makes me persona non Grata in any Catholic confessional but, hey, being gay is what I am and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

My thoughts, however, remain with Musaala at what must be a very trying time for him as he is forced to defend himself against scurrilous accusations from bottom-of-barrel desperadoes who will do and say anything to get noticed.

The Brazilian Catholic Church lends its voice to intolerance

The BBC has reported that the Brazilian Catholic Church has joined Rome in lending its voice to intolerance, dictatorship, censorship and parochialism.

Money quote showing the curiosity that is the Catholic Church’s position in February 2009:

It appears that Father Couto landed in trouble with the Church authorities because of an interview that he gave to a local newspaper defending the use of condoms as a matter of public health. He also spoke out against discrimination against homosexuals and said he was opposed to celibacy for priests.

Whether because they didn’t get it or the Church didn’t give it, the BBC report doesn’t explain why Brazil’s Catholic church find any of the above objectionable.

Sigh!!

Related articles:
1. Homosexuality and the religious argument
2. Kenya’s Methodist leaders get the knives out
3. Ethiopian clerics choose dogma over people

Seminar Against Homosexuality on in Uganda 3

Parents, guardians, teachers, government officials, policy makers, members of parliament, religious leaders, counselors and activists:

Please keep March 5 to 7 clear on your calendar. According to UGPulse you are going to be at Hotel Triangle, on Buganda Road in Kampala, in a seminar with international anti-homo evangelists from the USA focusing on how homosexuality can be cured. Below is a brief about the speakers:

L-R: Unidentified woman, American holocaust revisionist

Scott Lively, International Healing Foundation’s Caleb
Brundidge, Exodus International boardmember
Don Schmierer, Family Life Network (Uganda)’s Stephen Langa,

1. Dr. Scott Lively runs the California-based and aptly named ATM (Cashpoint?) or Abiding Truth Ministries whose entire existence is geared towards anti-homosexuality. An enthusiastic born-again Christian, Scott testifies in his presentation of having been an alchoholic and drug addict from the age of 12 until his miraculous deliverance during prayer at age 28.

Note: California is home to more homosexuals than anywhere else in the world, so it is interesting that Dr. Lively has hardly any strong following in any part of California, his home state, preferring to take his crusades to Lithuania and Uganda.

2. Mr. Don Schmierer from International Healing Ministries has apparently deciphered God’s mind. Among some of the truisms he utters is something like the following quote:

“Homosexuality results from the perception of rejection, real or imagined, by a child during his/her formative years. There is no gay gene! Homosexuality is not genetic, but a behavioral choice (though subconscious). The feeling of rejection as a human being comes in various forms – physical abuse, sexual abuse (including incest), verbal abuse, neglect (emotional abuse?), adultery, lack of affectionate touch, pornography, etc. Hormonal imbalance may also be a cause, though.”

So, those of you planning to attend beware. If you have ever been verbally or physically abusive, have committed adultery, failed to touch others affectionately or have hormonal struggles, you will likely have homosexual children if you haven’t got them already.

3. Caleb Lee Brundidge is a dreadlocked ‘former’ homosexual who claims he is cured and now works as a mentor of homosexuals looking for a cure. He lived 15 years in Atlanta , Georgia (gay population 10,000+), then he moved to New Jersey (gay population 10,000+) to pursue ministry and healing opportunities. Brundidge met Richard Cohen (Cohen was openly gay and had a boyfriend as an undergraduate, but spent years in intensive psychiatric treatment trying to change his sexual orientation) at a NARTH conference (National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality). Being profoundly moved and impressed by Mr. Cohen’s teaching, Caleb began a mentoring relationship with him and eventually experienced freedom from unwanted same-sex attraction (SSA). Brundidge is also associated with Club Mysterio whose website says it is:

“a club where people (mostly young) come together and experience Ekstasis worship/dance. … to create a Christian rave experience. Club Mysterio is not a Night Club, it is a Light Club! “

Check out this Ekstasis workshop on You-Tube.

And there you have it. For 75,000/= ($38) per head, prepare for the Ekstasis Christian rave experience at Hotel Triangle.

Related Articles:
1. Can being gay be cured?
2. Ted Haggard is in the news again!
3. Gay Conversion – a transcript featuring Richard Cohen and Lee Brundidge
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Homosexuality and the Religious Argument

THE BIBLICAL ARGUMENT; homosexual sex is ‘sin.’

The Bible condemns homosexual activity, you hear detractors say again and again. Their position is not without foundation since verses in the Bible clearly condemn same-sex sexual activity.

Apart from Saudi Arabia and a handful of religious states in the world, almost every country has a secular [as opposed to religious] constitution, so those who trumpet the Bible or Koran as the reason sodomy is wrong miss a vital point: a secular society has to make and abide by rules and regulations that apply fairly to all whereas religious doctrine need not lend itself to bending over for those that don’t believe. In addition, one can choose to join or leave a faith but citizenship is a right conferred upon one that can’t be traded in for something else. The state has a duty to protect all its citizens. In Africa, Chapter 4 of Uganda’s Constitution is unequivocal on this:

21. (1) All persons are equal before and under the law in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life and in every other respect and shall enjoy equal protection of the law.

But even if Uganda were a country whose laws were dictated by Biblical fiat, the Bible does not seem to have as clear-cut a message on homosexuality as some vociferously argue. In Leviticus [18:22-23] and St. Paul [Romans 1:26-27], homosexual acts are variously called detestable, abomination and against nature. But in Leviticus 11, exactly the same language is used and all these animals are also called detestable:

4 “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. 5 The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. 6 The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn’t part the hoof, she is unclean to you. 7 The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you. 9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. 10 All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you, 11 and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their
carcasses. 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you. …

Now, as we all know, most Christian believers no longer treat pigs, rabbits, ostriches and the finless sea creatures as an abomination and they certainly do not call those who eat them detestable. And, of course, further on, in Leviticus [25:44-46], slavery is explicitly endorsed:

44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 .
Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your
slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

No reasonable person endorses slavery anymore and even the Ugandan Constitution expressly forbids it:

25. (1) No person shall be held in slavery or servitude.

If we have relaxed our views about the “abomination” of eating pigs, rabbits, ostriches and so on, why should we use a different standard for those who engage in consensual private homosexual activity? And if Christian churches now marry women who are already pregnant and welcome men with multiple wives and publicly acknowledged “bastards”, what is it about consensual homosexual sex that bothers them?

Like the penal code currently exercising the Ugandan gay community and their supporters, the Biblical verses condemning sodomy and the eating of all those creatures do not give any reason for their condemnation. Since human beings have no way of second-guessing God, they have, rightly, reverted to their common sense, over time, and relaxed about eating pigs, rabbits etc. Likewise, many countries (South Africa, Britain, most of Europe and Scandinavia, Brazil, Australia, Canada etc) and peoples have done the same about homosexuality.

In any case, the Bible refers to homosexual acts, and these can be performed by anyone, but not to homosexuality which is ingrained, involuntary and which one identifies with even when one is not having any sex whatsoever. That then leaves unanswered the awkward but legitimate question: if some people’s only natural sexual inclination is to those of their own sex, what kind of [natural] sex are they supposed to engage in?

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If Biblical teaching is supreme and unquestionable, where are those who lived before it was introduced?

Is “Morality” Bigotry’s Trojan Horse?

You have no doubt heard countless commentators condemning gay lifestyles as immoral because the Bible or Koran says so. They routinely expound an illiberal argument whose real intention must be to dictate people’s lives and beliefs on the basis of mythical religious concepts. Yet, religion is as subjective as it is based purely on superstition which one either believes or doesn’t. There is quite simply no evidence that non-believers go to an entirely different afterlife than believers so one is always lost when one hears anyone pronouncing where the “sinners” are heading.

Doctrinaire religious zealots make the same mistake when they aver that Catholic doctrine or Islamic teaching cannot be questioned. A one Timothy Kalyegira (New Vision May 16, 2005) once went to the extent of announcing that anyone who questioned the Biblical word was “crazy.” So, despite the fact that Jesus, on whose teachings Catholicism is based, never mentioned abortion or homosexuality, Kalyegira lumped all these into one “evil” and branded anyone who doesn’t share his moral indignation against them “crazy.” Perhaps Kalyegira was loosely borrowing from Pope Benedict XVI who once said that that Christianity:

“… is a revelation; it is a message that has been consigned to us, and we have no right to reconstruct it as we like or choose.”

Like Pope Benedict XVI (he was called Cardinal Rantziger when he made the above proclamation) Kalyegira, too, seemed to be saying that ordinary people are too foolish to understand Christian orthodoxy so they should leave it to the Popes and great thinkers like Kalyegira to interpret. After all, this school of thought prefers to see religion as dogma that excludes all rational thought.

Yet, even the Catholic Church (On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, 1986) admits that there are gay people that are involuntarily so, a deviation surely from the “all homosexuals are evil” refrain. Else, if someone is born gay, is that to say that they were born evil? The Vatican Encyclical steadfastly refers to homosexuals as intrinsically evil, but it conveniently omits to explain how people who are gay through no fault of their own are evil. And what then are we to make of the teaching (Genesis 1:27) that all human beings were made in the image of God?

Mind you this is the same Vatican that not only turned a blind eye to, but also actively covered up evidence of priests accused of molesting young boys. Many of the claims were eventually authenticated despite protracted obstructionism from the Vatican and the rest of the Church hierarchy. Apparently, Kalyegira would rather that we all just swallow “hook, line and sinker” without questioning even in the light of such unmitigated dereliction of duty by an institution that shirked its primary responsibility which is protecting the vulnerable from criminals.

The supremacy of the Bible (and other religious books written by man) is the basis of most of the moral indignation against homosexuality and prostitution. But then, rather strangely, the same people that tell you that their indignation has its roots in religion are usually the same ones that also say that homosexuality is against African morals and/or is a Western import into what, to them, were once morally superior cultures. This thinking overlooks obvious evidence of illicit sex in many African communities, brothels in Ethiopia as far back as 700 AD, in a country that was never colonized. They ignore the pernicious problems such as the marrying off of pre-teenage and teenage girls to dirty old men (we now call that child abuse), of married women being returned to their birth homes because they were “sterile,” of female circumcision (female genital mutilation) which is now abandoned in all but the most stubbornly foolish cultural outposts. Does the Bible say anything about female genital mutilation? And can one even begin to compare any of these erstwhile “African morals” to consensual sex for money and same sex relationships?

Yes, black Africa has borrowed from the West and mostly good things; education which every government lauds as the bedrock of emancipation and enlightenment, freedom for men and women to choose their sexual partners, running tap water to ease the burden of those going to the water wells and so on. But let us be clear: there is nothing terribly special about African cultures in comparison to other civilizations and, in fact, there is a lot to be said for discarding tribal African rituals such as virginity arbiters on the wedding night and the lynching of “witches.” As for always trawling out the Bible, Koran or whatever other religious text to justify morality or lack thereof, unless those who believe in nothing else but these books are saying that our forefathers who lived before they were introduced are all in hell, there is something to be said for some humility and perspective where quoting from imported religious books is concerned.

Kenya’s Methodist Church Leaders Get the Knives Out

The knives are out for yet another religious cleric who has chosen to support the rights of gay men and women.

First it was Bishop Senyonjo of Uganda and now it is Kenya’s Rev. Bishop John Makokha’s turn to face the vindictiveness of an unyielding and inward-looking Methodist Church. What has Rev. Makokha done? He has spoken repeatedly in favour of embracing homosexuals.

Specifically, what riles Makokha’s enemies is that Makokha dared to mention the elephant in the room:

“[I don't] find [the] religious arguments against homosexuality persuasive because I have come to learn that historically religion has been manipulated and misinterpreted to oppose the rights of various minority groups such as women, slaves etc.”

But his enemies are a little more street smart, presumably because they have no answer to such a profoundly correct assessment, than what one might imagine and they have pretended that his stance on homosexuality is the least of their worries. According to them, he is guilty of insubordination, using financial donations for selfish ends and splitting the church. It would be foolish to think that Rev. Makokha is going to come out on the winning side when the dust settles – he is isn’t. But it is gratifying to see yet another modern day St. Thomas More willing to stand up for his convictions and call up his own superiors on their hypocritical lack of Christian compassion.

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Ethiopian Clerics choose dogma over people!!! 4

In a country that is perenially unable to feed its people, the Ethiopian clerics have chosen their main priority for 2009:

Ethiopian religious leaders have called on the country’s government to amend the constitution and ban homosexuality, a law which was never mentioned in the constitution of that country before. In a meeting held in December 2008 in Addis Ababa, where heads of various congregations including the Roman Catholic, thiopian Orthodox and Protestant churches met, a resolution was made that seeks to end homosexuality which was branded as “the pinnacle of immorality.” …

“For people to act in this manner they have to be dumb, stupid like animals. We strongly condemn this behavior, they have to be disciplined and their acts discriminated, they have to be taught a lesson.”

Cry, the beloved continent!