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In a stomach-churning article, Ugandan “pastors” proudly describe their deployment of children in their genocidal war against gays.
Thousands of children in Uganda Friday demonstrated against homosexuality on the streets of the country’s capital Kampala. The children carried placards supporting the anti-gay bill which was recently tabled in Parliament by Member of Parliament David Bahati. Other placards carried messages attacking the countries trying to intimidate Uganda to drop the bill.Pastor Charles Galabuzi, on of the organisers of the demonstration, said that a Christian organization called children with a mission liaised several churches and parents from allover the country to organize the demonstration.
“We contacted the various churches about the demonstration and they cooperated by requesting children from allover the country to send their children to participate. We also asked parents to send their children to take part in the noble cause. We are happy that they sent their children,” Galabuzi said.
How long until these “Christians” replace the signs in those children’s hands with pangas?
Galabuzi also claims that as Christians they do not support homosexuality and that they have come out strongly to tell all children in Uganda to denounce homosexuality and also to report any child they find getting involved in homosexuality activities.“We say no to homosexually in Uganda. We tell the children to avoid getting involved in it.”
One of the children who demonstrated, Morris Balinga, 15, said, “I am happy to be part of those demonstrating to show the world that gays have no place in Uganda.”
Friday’s event is very reminiscent of a scene all too common in Washington last November, when Slavic churches sent their children out to picket for bigotry, and Protect Marriage Washington used ignorant children in their anti-gay, anti-domestic partnership videos.
In stark contrast, a group of high school students in the Portland, Oregon suburb of Beaverton are appalled at the crime against humanity that Uganda’s genocidal Anti-Homosexuality Bill represents, and have on their own initiative organized Respect Humanity: Uganda March and Rally to educate others about this proposed genocide. The event kicks off at noon Saturday, January 23. Details here.
Cross-posted at DailyKos.
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They’ve Got to Be TaughtThey’ve got to be taught
Before it’s too late
Before they are six, or seven, or eight
To hate all the people their relatives hate
They’ve got to be carefully taught.
Overwhelming ignorance … … and it all just makes my head hurt. And who’s behind this organization ‘Children With A Mission’?
Thanks Lurleen…
…for pointing to the candlelight of those kids, and their supportive elders, in Beaverton, while children in Uganda are being exploited in ways I don’t believe even Hitler youth were.
While once a “Holy Roller,” but now a proud Card Carrying Athiest, I still know that not all theists are evil. Yet, save for a few exceptions, one must wonder WHERE THEY ARE in both condemning homo/transhatred in Uganda AND in America as, yet again,
Wonderful photo.
You know some of those youth are LGB and/or T.And have to participate because the rest of the kids are doing it, or their parents pushed them, or to prove to themselves or others that they are not. I’m imagining how it feels to have to advocate for your own murder. I think of Jews who had false documents and were able to pass in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries, and how it must have felt to know that in order to save yourself you had to not make waves, to not speak out, to feel complicit in the murder of your people and wonder when the sword will be turned on you. This is why it disgusts me so when people compare everything to Nazi Germany: such analogy loses its impact when it’s so ubiquitous.
I was thinkingthat the situation in Uganda must reek of holocaust tactics. Didn’t the nazis punish those who didn’t turn in jews and rip children from the arms of their parents? And we all know how many jews, queers, gypsies and those considered to be abominations against society died.
I went to the rally today. These kids are downright impressive. I’d say several hundred people were there. The youth speakers were all downright eloquent. And they did this in 5 WEEKS! I told one of them that most organizations couldn’t pull this off in that amount of time.
So this is where we are at. The power of the youth unleashed upon the world, given guidance by the adults in their lives. Unfortunately, there are too many adults that refuse to act in the best interest of the children. But there are some adults who raise their children to be compassionate and strong for those less fortunate, to give voice to those without one.
“Children with a Mission” – likely connected with “the Family”“Youth with a Mission” is a very large international parachurch organization emphasizing conversion of youth and involvement of youth in further missions, evangelical and political. YWAM is headed by Loren Cunningham, and its theology is dominionist (only the Godly deserve to govern, and laws must be Biblically based). YWAM also owns the Capitol Hill house, converted into a below-market-rate lodgings/ frat house for 6 to 8 select conservative Christian lawmakers recommended by a conservative Christian political organization called the Family.
The Family has deep anti-union, anti-regulation, anti-socialism roots, and has specialized in providing foreign politicians and businessmen some face time with sympathetic Congressmen and Senators, and vice versa. Because the Family runs as a loose network and doesn’t handle donations, it flies under the radar.