The federal challenge to Prop 8 happening now in the US District Court in San Francisco is not just a legal expose of the ongoing discrimination against same sex couples – it is also revealing just how deep is the divide in American thinking and perception.
In his latest fundraising letter issued Friday afternoon, National Organization for Marriage Executive Director Brian Brown summed up the legal strategy of the Olson/Boies team as putting Christianity on trial.
Please click inside to read his spin and my back-spin.
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) is holding a hearing Thursday on the proposed “Anti Homosexuality Bill” now pending in the Ugandan Parliament.
The hearing will be held from 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in the 2172 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC.
TLHRC Co-Chairman James P. McGovern (D-MA) and TLHRC Exec. Committee Member Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), as well as other Commission members, will hear testimony from Karl Wycoff, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of State; Julius Kaggwa, Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Uganda; Cary Alan Johnson, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; Rev. Kapya Kaoma, Political Research Associates and Christine Lubinski, HIV Medicine Association, Infectious Diseases Society of America, among others. Baldwin’s office said the committee is trying to webcast the hearing.
But is an hour and a half enough time to expose the international antigay effort – for which Uganda is a working model? Religious Right researcher Bruce Wilson produced a short documentary (20 minutes) called “Transforming Uganda” that spells out who’s who and how the Anti Homosexuality Bill is part of a much larger underground antigay Christian movement. Please watch the video and click inside to read about a conversation between Wilson and Rev. Kapya Kaoma – who is testifying today – about the movement.
Bruce Wilson is a straight religious right researcher who not only produces extraordinary work but understands the possible consequences of what he uncovers – especially to the LGBT community. This is a cross-post of an in-depth piece about Lou Engle who we in Southern California remember as the hyper-antigay Christian whipping up the fasting crowd at the pro-Prop 8 event in San Diego called TheCall. Few of us really expected to see Lou Engle wearing an ill-fitting suit leading the anti-healthcare reform bill “Prayercast” organized by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins – with portions broadcast live by Rachel Maddow recently. Given his frenetic fanaticism and some of his pronouncements about Christian martyrs and statements such as -“Wherever I go I spit, but it’s holy water” – it is disturbing to learn from Wilson about Engle’s association with US Sen. Sam Brownback and that he might take his religious show on the road – to Uganda. This is one of those investigative pieces that LGBT politicos should read and save because it seems we’re just getting to know Lou Engle. Additionally – please bookmark and continue to follow Bruce Wilson at Talk to Action.
Thanks to Rachel Maddow and some dogged research and reporting by Jeff Sharlet, Bruce Wilson and others, the US antigay evangelical connection to the Uganda “kill the gays bill” has brought sufficient pressure on that African government that they stripped out the death penalty and life imprisonment provisions.
Here’s the latest from Rachel who also interviews an Episcopal priest who went undercover in the Uganda antigay movement and directly links Scott Lively, President of Abiding Truth Ministries, with the Ugandan hate bill and a larger effort to stop “the International Gay Agenda.” Click inside for Rachel’s interview with Jeff Sharlet about The Family-run National Prayer Breakfast, and an email from Maine’s Rev. Bob Emrich who just returned from Uganda and seems to endorse the proposition that “Not every human right is right” when it comes to gays.
There’s a lot happening on the Religious Right front: two enlightening interviews – one with a leading “ex-gay” whose book influenced the murderous Anti Homosexuality Bill in Uganda and another with a reporter on the “ex-gay” ministries; a statement from US Christian leaders opposing the Uganda bill; and a suggestion that the antigay Uganda gang is moving into Canada, where same sex marriage is legal.
Tuesday night, the intrepid Rachel Maddow interviewed Richard Cohen, author of Coming Out Straight which she links to the Anti Homosexuality Bill in Uganda 2009, showing proponent Stephen Langa waving the book around. If you look closely, you can see him literally quaking under her questioning. She also presses him on another point in his book, Gay Children, Straight Parents – why does he consider race to be a factor in making someone gay? Cohen had to back away from on live TV. She also excoriated him for using the widely discredited “research” of the infamous Paul Cameron and she gets Cohen to admit that he is not a licensed counselor. Click inside to read the rest of this report.
Thursday night, Rachel Maddow continued her investigative reporting on the link between US evangelicals and the “Kill the Gays” bill now pending in Uganda.
But Maddow – and many of the rest of us – have only referenced pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church in California. Now comes an expose from Bruce Wilson and his team – researchers who helped Jeff Sharlet in his investigation of The Family – posted on the website Talk to Action. The expose is 3,600-words but in it Wilson reveals that Warren’s senior advisor, C. Peter Wagner, played a “major role.” Click inside for more, including Rachel’s video. But here is an audio recording of Warren asking 30,000 Saddleback Church members in Angel’s Stadium in 2005 to be just as dedicated to changing the world as Hitler Youth and followers of Chairman Mao:
“The Devil screams the loudest just before leaving the room.”
After last night’s devastating loss of marriage equality in Maine 52.84% – 47.16% – an almost exact mirror of the loss of constitutionally protected same sex marriage rights with Prop 8 in California – it’s time to call out the “Devil” cleverly disguised as the antigay forces of the Religious Right. Click inside to read my analysis and challenge to those who call themselves Christians.
On Monday, Miss California state director Keith Lewis and K2 Productions filed a cross-complaint and demurrer in Los Angeles Superior Court against former Miss California, Carrie Prejean. In an interview with LGBT POV, Lewis talks about the lawsuit, Carrie, wanting her ill-gotten profits, more explicit pictures to come, the National Organization for Marriage, Carrie’s pastor Miles McPherson, and oh, yeah – Mr. Trump who taped promos for a Nov. 22 televised Miss California pageant. Click inside for the scoop.
The federal challenge to Prop 8 happening now in the US District Court in San Francisco is not just a legal expose of the ongoing discrimination against same sex couples – it is also revealing just how deep is the divide in American thinking and perception.
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) is holding a hearing Thursday on the proposed “Anti Homosexuality Bill” now pending in the Ugandan Parliament.
Bruce Wilson is a straight religious right researcher who not only produces extraordinary work but understands the possible consequences of what he uncovers – especially to the LGBT community. This is a
Tuesday night, the intrepid Rachel Maddow interviewed Richard Cohen, author of Coming Out Straight which she links to the Anti Homosexuality Bill in Uganda 2009, showing proponent Stephen Langa waving the book around. If you look closely, you can see him literally quaking under her questioning. She also presses him on another point in his book, Gay Children, Straight Parents – why does he consider race to be a factor in making someone gay? Cohen had to back away from on live TV. She also excoriated him for using the widely discredited “research” of the infamous Paul Cameron and she gets Cohen to admit that he is not a licensed counselor. Click inside to read the rest of this report. 
Thursday night, Rachel Maddow continued her investigative reporting on the link between US evangelicals and the “Kill the Gays” bill now pending in Uganda.
There’s an old saying:
On Monday, Miss California state director Keith Lewis and K2 Productions filed a cross-complaint and demurrer in Los Angeles Superior Court against former Miss California, Carrie Prejean. In an interview with LGBT POV, Lewis talks about the lawsuit, Carrie, wanting her ill-gotten profits, more explicit pictures to come, the National Organization for Marriage, Carrie’s pastor Miles McPherson, and oh, yeah – Mr. Trump who taped promos for a Nov. 22 televised Miss California pageant. Click inside for the scoop. 
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