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According to the Daily Monitor, Ugandan anti-gay bill supporter Martin Ssempa recently held a press conference. At this particular event, he was supposed to introduce two Ugandans who claimed to be “ex-gay.”
However, Ssempa's actions caused the press conference to end rather early:
Pastor Martin Ssempa on Tuesday plumbed the depths of notoriety when he offered graphic images of gay sex as proof of the need for tough penalties against homosexuals.
But midway through his presentation, saved on a computer, most of his audience walked out, some visibly disturbed, leaving him to wonder if he had done anything wrong. The cleric seemed genuinely rattled when he asked: “Why should I be traumatised?”
One man, who was part of a group of American students invited to the press conference by Rubaga North MP Beti Kamya, was seen crying, his colleagues consoling him as the group left the National Theatre.
But this press conference is nothing compared to the one he held on Jan. 15.
According to the Huffington Post, during that particular event, Ssempa took the liberty of showing a slideshow so disgusting that one has to wonder about his mental state:
A pornographic slideshow of black and white photographs of men engaging in scatological fetishism is revealed. “I want to show you from their website”, he proclaims, a devious smile forming. “I've taken the time to research what homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedroom. It is inhuman, it is animalistic, and it cannot be right. I want to show you these pictures.” The audience lurches forward, leering at the pictures and groaning in disgust. Ssempa, enthusiastically goes on:
I want to say homosexuals eat each other's poop. Homosexuals stick their hands into their rectum. Homosexuals stick all sorts of deviant sexual things into their rectum. I want to show you this is from their website. So the first picture that I want to show you, you can see this man has just eaten the other person's poo poo and is rubbing it on his mouth, and I'm going to ask that we print for each of you a photocopy of this story so you get it fully.
Then, of course, they are grabbing each other's gentials, that is level number one, touching each other, grabbing each other. Then number three, now they are licking eachother's anus and are licking poop. And they call poo poo, chocolate. You see it is a change of words. I want you to see, Sheikh please forgive me but I want these people to see, they say a picture is worth one thousand words. This is a man eating the other person's poo poo, can you see that one? Please from BBC, I want you to tell them, we know what they do.
I cringe to wonder what Ssempa will “unveil” should he hold another press conference. Sometimes words aren't enough to criticize the depths that people will stoop to in order to stigmatize the lgbt community.
And by all means, don't think Ssempa's behavior merits laughter. I know that there are some out there who seek to minimize Ssempa's madness by making him an object of ridicule.
Ssempa is not like Peter LaBarbera. His words and actions are unfortunately resonating with some people.
Just ask the lgbts in Uganda.
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Homosexuals.orgWondering where “their website” is that he refers to so frequently – sounds like he found the homosexualist movement’s website. I looked for it myself – and see what I’ve found:
http://www.homosexuals.org
The headline “Homosexuals.org – What you need, when you need it” – sure is promising. Maybe I can even find the homosexual agenda here? But then: big disappointment – the only things listed are:
Homosexuals
Gays
Health Insurance
Health Insurance Coverage
United Health Care Insurance
Singles
Bibles
Instant Messenger
Black Girls
Britney Spears
No poo poo or homosexual agenda but bibles and united healthcare? I guess i will keep on looking …
Poor uninformed preacherWhat say you to “helping” the preacher’s cause by locating all of the straight pregnancy, incest, pedophilic, bestiality, simulated rape, scat, blood and watersports fetish sites out there for him?
You don’t stumble across a scat fetish site by accident. You have to be looking at some pretty hardcore stuff to begin with to find those sites; this material is obviously of interest to him.
Methinks the laddie doth protest too muchHis actions sound very much like obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Some of the straight sites are just as disgustingDoes he think that scatology is restricted to gays? Ummm…wonder which SO thought that stuff up to begin with? Straights?
Nothing new, really.When we were working to get Pittsburgh’s gay rights bill enacted, twenty years ago, the fundies here spread the “information” to all who would listen that–and this is a direct quote–”90% of gay men like to eat human excrement.” They repeated this over and over again, in one forum after another, and they actually said it on the air, both TV and radio. And of course no one ever called them on it but us poor little perverted mos. So I guess we should be heartened that the number has dropped from 90% to 65%.
Christian lies never die. Sort of like their imaginary friend Jesus.
Let us not forget……this guy is a close close friend of Rick Warren and lots of people in Congress. We need to keep reminding everyone of who hangs out with him.
“I’ve taken the time to research what homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedroom.”says the closeted homosexual with some fucked-up fetishes.
Yeah?Take a look at what heterosexuals do behind closed doors. Go to Google and try “2 Girls 1 Cup”
no more disgusting than the fables about witches’ sabbaths …… which were a driving force behind the witch hunts (read: persecution of women and others) in medieval Europe. Clerics of the day alleged (fantasized?) all sorts of lurid goings-on at such gatherings, including bizarre sexual rites. It takes on a certain momentum if they tortured witnesses A, B, and C into confirming all this and naming neighbors X, Y and Z as participants, who in turn, to save themselves, will name others.
This is insanity, but whole cities could get swept up in it, or at least they did then. And human nature might not change, especially when driven by religious hysteria. Don’t assume, then, that any absurdity will be seen as such. Public hysteria will believe anything. This loon could very well be the presiding inquisitor.
this guy is sickSo he trolls around the web and finds some scat porn (after what was I’m sure a very exhaustive search) and props it up as everyday gay fun? Yeah, I’m not surprised.
If this jackass is not a complete idiot, he must know you can pretty much find any combination of people in some crazy ass scat porn on the web. I’m pretty sure he does know this.
Two Girls, One Cup!…and a partridge in a pear tree.
He seems unawareof rules 34 and 36 of the internet.
Rule 34; if it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.
Rule 36; if it exists, it is somebody’s fetish. No exceptions.
YeahScat play isn’t exactly gay exclusive or even common for many, indeed it’s pretty rare, though played up a little bit on the internet because of the internet’s love of giving link love to gross-out stuff as a juvenile prank (because there are juveniles on the internet as in life).
But yeah, this is also where we should really start standing up for sexuality education in the world. We teach some sex education in reproductive systems and some specific virology, but we don’t really teach kids about their sexualities.
Sure many of them get an awakening with the internet where the human race can’t hide away their variety of fetishes under the mattresses, but for those who haven’t, it leads to an easy way douches like this can frighten the masses. By talking about a minority practice in the sexual world, it can seem exotic or frightening to those deliberately kept ignorant.
Whereas the response of those of us who have actual knowledge and perspective, the response is more akin to:
“Oh yeah, some people do that. It’s kinda unsafe as there are a lot of infectious particles in shit.”
Of course another big battle is acceptance of our humanity. The religious right hate their bodies. The physicality of it, its existence. The fact it can fuck and bleed and piss and shit. It disturbs them and this disturbance reverbs through all of western and thanks to buddhism a lot of eastern society as well. Combining several body things together will rarely fail to elicit a strong negative response to those most steeped in that culture of bodily hatred. Bodies can shit and fuck and an image can combine those two aspects? Bodies can piss and shit and a toilet represents that? Bodies can eat and bleed and zombies exaggerate this?
Defeating that inherent hatred and recoil would probably be glorious, but the act of doing so is probably even harder than just getting equal rights to so many minority groups.
Erm2 girls 1 cup would be homosexual, since it is two women.