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</div><div>WRITTEN BY MIA GINGERICH</div><div>
</div><div>PUBLISHED 04/17/23 </div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Right-wing media reacted to passage of a Ugandan law imposing prison time for anyone identifying as LGBTQ by claiming that those condemning the law were imposing outside values on the African nation and suggesting that opposition from U.S. media and politicians amounted to colonialism. But the Ugandan law was at least partially spurred by Western influences, and many of the same conservative figures and outlets who made such assertions are themselves tied to Western organizations that have recently pushed anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation in the African nation. </span></div><div>
</div><div>In March, the Ugandan parliament passed a law that would enforce life in prison for anyone found to identify as LGBT, while also threatening lengthy prison terms for media groups, journalists, publishers, property owners, and essentially any individuals or institutions found to be supporting, advocating, or facilitating gay rights. The country previously courted international outrage after passing a similar law in 2013, which was later struck down by a Ugandan court for procedural reasons. The new law awaits the signature of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who recently signaled that he would sign the bill into law. </div><div>
</div><div>American organizations’ influence on Ugandan laws criminalizing LGBTQ people</div><div>Despite assertions from right-wing media that the laws are the organic outcome of anti-gay prejudice in Uganda, political attacks on LGBTQ existence in Uganda (and a number of other African nations) are fueled by Western nations and organizations. </div><div>
</div><div>The first laws criminalizing homosexuality were passed during British rule of Uganda, and the current focus on imprisoning and torturing members of the LGBTQ community was at least partially sparked by a 2009 meeting between<b> right-wing American organizations Family Life Network and Exodus International and Ugandan political and religious leaders. </b>The 2013 law was written by a Ugandan politician employed by the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Fellowship Foundation, a secretive and highly influential conservative group from America </span></div><div>
</div><div>After the law was repealed in 2014, Uganda continued to prosecute, imprison, and torture LGBTQ people under the original law passed by the British; in 2015, the prime minister of Uganda stated that the 2013 law wasn’t necessary “because we already have a law which was left by the British which deals with this issue.”</div><div>
</div><div><b> An even more extreme version of the 2013 law was reintroduced in 2020 but did not gain traction until last year, when a video purporting to be testimony from an “ex-gay” activist went viral on Twitter in Uganda</b>. As detailed by journalist Caleb Okereke, the rhetoric in the video seems to stem in part from the 2009 meeting organized by U.S. organizations (namely the <b>Family Life Network). As far-right Western religious groups promoted the 2013 law, extremist Pentecostal groups from the United States reportedly spent $26 million in recent years in Uganda advocating for passage of this newest bill.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Right-wing media claim condemnation of the law is colonialism</div><div>Prior to the bill’s passage, Breitbart published an article claiming it was an example of Uganda “resisting international pro-gay propaganda.” The piece was framed around supportive statements from one of the bill’s supporters. The article later asserted that the “United States has played a central role in pushing a pro-gay agenda contrary to Ugandan values.” That same article, along with one published after the law was passed, claimed that no one had been convicted of homosexuality since the country gained independence, an outright lie.</div><div>
</div><div>Right-wing media’s response to the bill, however, truly took shape after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby condemned the law during a press conference and mainstream outlets criticized the measure. </div><div>
</div><div><b>Heritage Foundation fellow Delano Squires reacted to the coverage by tweeting that media were trying to force nations like Uganda and Kenya (which also criminalizes LGBTQ existence) to “bend the knee to ‘Pride’</b>.” Squires quote-tweeted a video of Jean-Pierre denouncing Uganda’s law, writing, “Perhaps Uganda doesn’t want its culture colonized by the West again. Maybe the people there would rather fly their own flag than yours.” Squires included pictures of Pride flags as well as Jean-Pierre standing with Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine (a trans woman who has been harassed by right-wing media).</div><div>
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</div><div>On the March 23 edition of his show, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh claimed that those speaking out against the bill were “cultural colonialists” and mocked their concern over “protecting so-called LGBTQ rights.” Walsh went on to claim that opponents of the bill “don't think that Uganda has any particular right to govern itself and have its own culture and its own way of life.” </div><div>
</div><div>Video </div><div>Citation From the March 23, 2023, edition of Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A day later, The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles followed Walsh’s lead, claiming on his show that “liberals paradoxically are the most inclined to impose their values on the world,” accusing Americans speaking out against the bill of “exporting … the LGBTQ flag and condoms and abortion and all the trappings of liberalism,” claiming it was <b>“the new kind of colonialism.”</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Video </div><div>Citation From the March 24, 2023, edition of Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show</div><div>
</div><div><b>New York Post</b> columnist Miranda Devine wrote a column criticizing U.S. condemnation of the bill and attempted to excuse the extreme anti-LGBTQ policies of nations like Uganda, Hungary, and Russia, writing that “wokery is unpopular in a lot of foreign societies” and that those nations “regard gender ideology and the LGBTQ agenda as cultural imperialism that undermines their religious and family values,” asking, “Who are we to tell them otherwise?” Devine went on to describe the fight for LGBTQ rights abroad as “boutique concerns.”</div><div>
</div><div>The same right-wing figures are tied to organizations pushing anti-LGBTQ sentiment in Uganda</div><div>The Daily Wire</div><div>
</div><div><b>Scott Lively helped organize the 2009 conference and met with Ugandan lawmakers to spread anti-gay propaganda, and the right-wing group Liberty Counsel represented him in a lawsuit brought by Ugandan LGBTQ activists</b> over his part in driving the persecution of gay people in the country. Prior to Liberty Counsel’s victory in the case — that freed Lively of any civil responsibility to the Ugandan victims of the law but recognized that he had contributed to persecution in Uganda and broken international law — Farris Wilks, the billionaire fracking tycoon who co-founded and still co-owns the Daily Wire, donated $1.5 million to Liberty Counsel. </div><div>
</div><div>Matt Walsh bragged on March 10 that his anti-LGBTQ movie, “What Is A Woman,” was screened for a select group of United Nations representatives from Africa, including representatives from Uganda. The screening was sponsored by the<b> Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam</b>) and Family Watch International, an organization that works with and supports those responsible for anti-LGBTQ legislation in Uganda and Africa more broadly. A Daily Wire article on the screening quoted Peace Regis Mutuuzo, a Ugandan politician who supported the bill and who previously stated that Uganda “shall not tolerate homosexuality even for a day.” </div><div>
</div><div>Family Watch International also hosted the online portion of a conference in Uganda promoting the recently passed bill. </div><div>
</div><div>Heritage Foundation</div><div>
</div><div><b>The American Center for Law and Justice functions as “the key organization involved in ensuring African constitutions and laws criminalize homosexuality,”</b> and it has been one of the most influential organizations in pushing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on African countries. As detailed by researcher Kapya John Kaoma, ACLJ hires local staff in African nations, allowing them to “hide an American-based agenda behind African faces, giving the Christian Right room to attack gender justice and LGBTQ rights as a neocolonial enterprise imposed on Africans and obstructing meaningful critique of the U.S. Right’s activities.” ACLJ has also recently represented the Heritage Foundation in federal court. ACLJ’s chief counsel, Jay Sekulow, also happens to be the lawyer who represented Trump during the Senate impeachment trial. </div><div>
</div><div>Miranda Devine</div><div>
</div><div><b>Lively similarly has connections to the World Congress of Families</b>, an organization whose efforts to spread anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in Africa — including at events attended by dignitaries from Uganda — coincided with the rise of anti-gay legislation. In 2013, the group was banned from the U.S. Senate meeting room by a Republican senator for their involvement in pushing anti-LGBTQ legislation in countries like Uganda and Russia. That same year, Miranda Devine, who at the time was writing anti-gay screeds for the conservative Australian outlet The Daily Telegraph, spoke at their conference. The conference’s topics included “What Families Are Best for the Economy?” and “The Impact on Children of Legalising ‘Same-Sex Marriage’.”</div><div>
</div><div>Right-wing media have a pattern of invalidating casualties of LGBTQ oppression while providing cover for those driving persecution abroad</div><div>This pattern of right-wing media discounting the understandable outrage over the persecution of LGBTQ people abroad — and in the process burying their ties to those who helped make that persecution a reality — is not a new development. The same extremist evangelical organizations helped create Russia’s anti-LGBTQ movement, and when the country’s invasion of Ukraine threatened the lives of trans people, their plight also became fodder for outlets like Daily Wire.</div><div>
</div><div>Whether or not their intent is rooted in protecting themselves and their wealthy donors, the damage of providing cover for those perpetuating this harm is apparent. Ugandan LGBTQ activists are murdered in their homes, and LGBTQ people in Uganda are facing exile from their home country as a result of a law ushered in by Western governments and organizations.</div><div>
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</span></font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px none; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And spraying is costly. This year in Kabale, in southwestern Uganda, 100,000 huts were sprayed as part of an indoor spraying project. A permethrin derivative, not DDT, was used and the spraying was controlled and safe. The cost was close to $2 million. …</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DDT is not the magic bullet that will eradicate malaria. We need to refocus resources and attention on something most Africans do not have: basic malaria education, and prevention with insecticide-treated bed nets.</font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So is there a scientific evidence for using DDT spraying instead of insecticide-treated bed nets in Uganda? The International Water Management Institute recently published a <a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/pubs/working/WOR95.pdf" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">study</a> on DDT use in Uganda and three other African countries.</font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px none; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Malaria control decision makers who use or want to use DDT to combat
malaria say they want to use it because it is both effective and
inexpensive, when compared to alternatives. With budgetary constraints
faced by the Ministries of Health, these decision makers find it
necessary to use the least expensive option for vector
control. However, none of the malaria control or insecticide control
specialists in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya or South Africa could cite a
formal cost-effectiveness study to assess whether IRS using DDT was,
in truth, the most effective and inexpensive method to be used. …</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Compared to other countries, the issue of DDT reintroduction is
extremely controversial in Uganda. The Ministry of Health’s plans to
reintroduce DDT is raising concerns in the country’s scientific
community. Most Members of Parliament support the move to reintroduce
DDT for malaria control, although there are some strong dissenters
(Mubiru 2004). The Ministry’s initiative is driven by government
elites, rather than malarious communities themselves; the general
population of Uganda is not particularly adamant about the DDT issue. …</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2004, the African Network for Chemical Analysis of Pesticides
(ANCAP) held a workshop in Kampala, Uganda on the appropriateness of
DDT, considering the malaria crisis and Uganda’s capacity to control
hazardous chemicals. According to one workshop attendee, the keynote
address, given by the Minister of Health, indicated that DDT would be
reintroduced into Uganda regardless of the outcome of the workshop. …</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IRS is typically used to prevent epidemics; however, Uganda’s Malaria
Control Programme has recently promoted IRS in structures where ITNs
are not used, “regardless of level of endemicity” (Uganda Ministry of
Health 2001). …</font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They conclude:</font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px none; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Often, research is either lacking or ill incorporated into vector
control policies. In East Africa in particular, better links to
research organizations, as well as development of government research
capacities, should be pursued to increase the robustness of future
vector control policy decisions. Interestingly, the immediate impact
of the POPs Treaty has been to legitimize government policies to use
or reintroduce DDT for malaria vector control.</font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So is there any research that supports DDT use in Uganda? Uganda’s Ministry of Health has just put out an <a href="http://www.nemaug.org/UPLOADS/EIADDT.pdf" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Environmental Impact Statement</a>. In the executive summary they say that a cost-benefit analysis supports DDT use:</font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px none; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The cost-benefit ratio of DDT compared to ACT and HOMAPACK is 24.9
and 18.7 respectively. For deltamethrin the ratios were 10.0 and 7.5
while for ICON it is 14.56 and 10.9 respectively.</font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well that sounds good, but the <a href="http://malaria.who.int/docs/IRS-position.pdf" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">WHO’s recent position paper says</a></font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px none; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently, the cost of using some of the pyrethroid insecticides is almost equivalent
to that of using DDT,</font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How did the MOH EIS come up with deltamethrin being 2.5 times as expensive as DDT? They write:</font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px none; margin: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, information on the relative cost of DDT and other
insecticides is scarce. The team failed to get price quotations of the
currently used insecticides for mosquito control for IRS from Twiga
Chemicals. However, WHO (1990) based its calculations on the prices of
the late 1980s and early 1990 to compare all the insecticides in use.</font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Their price comparison was based on the 1990 price of deltamethrin of $800/kg. I found a<a href="http://www.indian-chemicals.com/importprices/intermediates/index.htm" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">current price of $300/kg on the web</a>, so the cost of IRS with deltamethrin would be pretty close.</font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also compare IRS with DDT to bed nets and conclude (page 97) that the five year cost of DDT spraying for the whole country would be $476,789 while long-lasting nets would be $146,400,000, i.e. 300 times as expensive. Unfortunately there are are some mistakes in their calculations and their ratio is wrong. By a factor of 1,000. Their table says that DDT spraying costs $0.0186 per household per year. Elsewhere they give the numbers this is based on: a DDT cost of $4.65/kg, 200 m<sup style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent;">2</sup> to spray per house and 2gm/m<sup style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent;">2</sup> DDT every six months. That’s $4.65<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">200</em>0.002=$1.86 per six months, $3.72 per year. They understated the DDT cost by a factor of 200. While for long lasting nets they assumed that a new net was needed every year when these nets last for about five years, so they overstated the cost of nets by a factor of 5. Correcting for these factors you find that instead of nets being 300 times as costly, they are actually much cheaper — only 30% of the cost of spraying DDT.</font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now it may be that increasing DDT use instead of nets is the most effective means for control of malaria in Uganda. But there is no scientific evidence for this and it would be wise to experiment with a pilot program before spending many millions of dollars on a massive spraying program.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09/24/ddt-in-uganda/</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">deltoid</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">--</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">2007</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">In an effort to combat widespread malaria, the nations of Uganda and Tanzania recently lifted their bans on the use of DDT indoors. While this has angered some in Europe, such actions were necessary to protect human health, according to Paul Driessen of the Congress on Racial Equality: Comments Dreissen: “Sprayed just once or twice a year on the eaves or inside walls of homes, DDT keeps 99% of mosquitos from even entering. It irritates those that do come in so they rarely bite, and kills any that land. No other chemical at any price does that. African countries that used DDT this way cut malaria rates by 75% in two years. DDT saves lives.” - See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2007/09/18/cores-dreissen-on-lifting-of-ddt-ban/#sthash.PF6eKps2.dpuf</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">--</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">2009 radio</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px;">http://www.cfact.org/2009/08/31/african-study-decontaminates-false-ddt-allegations/</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see C street</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://storify.com/davidbadash/jeff-sharlet-debunks-senator-inhofe-s-claim-he-s-n</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some more Inhofe African adventures: stumping for sudden Jesus convert Benin kleptocrat Kerekou, partner of US defense contractor Titan.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Family leader former Rep. Mark Siljander says he traveled in Africa w/ Inhofe. Also pled guilty to obstruct of justice related to travels.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Inhofe staffer Mark Powers is an Assemblies of God missionary, dual payroll. Serious ethics problem. & alleged Bahati liaison.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/21/anti_gay_fervor_in_uganda_tied</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">JUAN</span> <span class="caps">GONZALEZ</span>:</strong> Human rights activists in Uganda are warning that the lives of gay people are endangered after a newspaper published a front-page story featuring the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> names and photographs of what it called Uganda’s "top" 100 gays and lesbians, alongside yellow banner that read "Hang Them.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" The article appeared earlier this month in the new Ugandan weekly newspaper </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rolling Stone</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which is not affiliated with the US magazine by the same name.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its publication came just days after the<b> first anniversary of the introduction to Parliament of an anti-gay bill that calls for the death penalty or life imprisonment</b> for some homosexual acts. The proposed legislation was stalled after an international outcry, including from President Obama, who called the bill "odious."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> Less talked about are the ties between the anti-gay measure and the far-right evangelical movement here in the United States. The<b> author of the bill is David Bahati, a Ugandan lawmaker who has close ties to US organized evangelical groups that operate across several African countries</b>. The groups are members of parliamentary prayer fellowships organized by the Family, one of the most powerful Christian conservative groups in Washington, DC.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Family, also known as the Fellowship, is so highly secretive it didn’t even admit it existed until last year, when three political sex scandals, those of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Nevada Senator John Ensign, and former Mississippi Congress member Chip Pickering, forced it into the open. All three men lived at one time in the Family’s clubhouse on Capitol Hill, known as the "C Street House."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For more, we’re joined by journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, author of the bestseller <em>The Family</em>. His new book is <em>C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy</em>. He traveled to Uganda earlier this year and wrote in-depth articles on the anti-gay legislation for <em>Harper’s Magazine</em> and <em>The Advocate</em>. Jeff Sharlet joins us now from Dartmouth College, where he’s an assistant professor of English.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff, welcome to <em>Democracy Now!</em> Tell us about the latest in Uganda. What’s happening there?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">JEFF</span> <span class="caps">SHARLET</span>:</strong> Hi, Amy. Good to be back with you.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, this article in <em>Rolling Stone</em>, the Ugandan <em>Rolling Stone</em>, what it marks is really an escalation. We’ve already seen this happening in Uganda. <em>Rolling Stone</em> is a new paper. The big national tabloid, you might say, is called <em>Red Pepper</em>, and they’ve been publishing so-called kill lists for some time now, with names, sometimes addresses, photographs, of gay people. You see also some Ugandans taking out ads in these papers to say, "Here’s this person I don’t like, arrival at work," or something like this, "I have secret information that he’s gay." This idea of sort of formalizing the list, naming the top hundred, this is a real escalation.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And I think what it shows us, and with what’s going on in the bill right now and what’s alarming, is the bill hasn’t been passed. It got stalled after it was introduced, in response to international pressure. But it’s still there. It’s, in effect, kind of a tiger on a leash that the regime can let off depending on its own fortunes in upcoming elections. A</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">nd what I’m hearing from David Bahati, the author of the bill, with whom I remain in touch, that he is now being promised a second reading</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And I think this new step in the press is a very alarming one, because it shows it moving right back to the forefront of Ugandan society.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">JUAN</span> <span class="caps">GONZALEZ</span>:</strong> Now, you’ve been documenting the enormous influence of these right-wing evangelical groups here in the United States on the debate in Africa. You mention this one church, in particular, Canyon Ridge megachurch in Nevada. Could you talk about what they have been doing?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="caps">JEFF</span> <span class="caps">SHARLET</span>:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Canyon Ridge, it’s a megachurch in Las Vegas. What’s interesting about it is it’s not even a far-right megachurch, and there’s a lot of members of Canyon Ridge who would be, I think, really outraged if they understood that their church was supporting one of the leaders of the anti-gay movement, Pastor Martin Ssempa, who’s also received US federal dollars, <span class="caps">PEPFAR</span> money. He has testified before our Congress. He’s held up as a champion in the fight against <span class="caps">AIDS</span>. His method has boiled down to "kill them</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">." The Canyon Ridge Church, there’s been a lot of pressure put on it, and I should say, by the way, by some evangelical activists. There’s a man named Warren Throckmorton, a professor at a Christian college, who’s been leading the fight to get Canyon Ridge to be accountable for the fact that they are financing part of this campaign. But, you know, even that is just one piece of this equation.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You go back to David Bahati, the member of Parliament who is doing this, and Minister of Ethics James Nsaba Buturo, and their connections are even a little higher up. They’re with people like Senator Jim </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Inhofe, who’s been over to visit with them and teach them, as they put it, how to manage their society according to Jesus. John Ashcroft </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has been over to visit them. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So you see this is kind of — this goes just from a rogue megachurch in Las Vegas, which is very important — we’ve got to concentrate that — all the way to the kind of — the right flank of the Republican Party.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> I want to turn to a clip of the Ugandan MP David Bahati, the author of the anti-gay bill. In an interview on <em>Vanguard</em> on Current TV, he was asked whether he thought some US evangelicals, like Rick Warren, supported his bill but are rejecting it after international pressure.</font></p><blockquote class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 3em; direction: ltr; overflow: auto; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">DAVID</span> <span class="caps">BAHATI</span>:</strong> The many friends that we have, especially the evangelicals, in America, when we speak to them privately, they do support us. They encourage us. But they are in a society that is very hostile, and we appreciate that. And we have said, "Do what you think is right for your conscience. But at the same time, remember that we are engaged in a spiritual battle, we are engaged in a very difficult battle, and it’s important that you come out clearly." But we accept that they are in a very hostile environment, because America has — some of the many leaders in America have been blackmailed by pro-gay communities. But we have support in America. There are people who support what we’re engaged in. There are many, many Americans who don’t accept homosexuality as a human right, who take it as sin. They know it. But how do we treat these homosexuals is a matter that all of us are disagreeing. There are those who think that we should appreciate them, be tolerant to them, but for us here, we are saying, no, we shouldn’t. We should call a sin "sin," because we cannot relate to the Bible.</font></p></blockquote><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> That’s Ugandan MP David Bahati, author of the anti-gay bill that he drafted just weeks after a major conference that a number of US evangelicals attended. Jeff Sharlet, talk about this conference.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SHARLET</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">:</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Well, to be honest, actually, I think too much emphasis has been on the conference. This is a guy named Scott Lively, who’s a fringe character in the United States, author of a book called<em>The Pink Swastika</em>. He argues that the Holocaust was actually sort of a result of a gay conspiracy, as was the Rwandan genocide. He went over with a more mainstream group called Exodus, which sort of has the idea that they can cure people of homosexuality, and they had this conference back in spring of 2009. The bill did emerge after that.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But I went over, and I wanted to spend time with Bahati, because something about that didn’t add up, the idea that this guy, who is a very sophisticated politician — when you sit down with him, you see that this guy is no fool — well-educated guy, that — is he really the dupe of these kind of US fringe characters? And he was pretty clear that that’s not how he saw it</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. He appreciated the message they brought to Uganda. He said, "But this is something we’ve been working on for a while. This is something we care about</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. We recognize that those guys, with their — you know, their talk about the Holocaust and gay conspiracies" — David Bahati thinks they sound nutty. So this is, you know — when someone who has got genocide on the mind thinks that you’re too extreme, you’re really kind of far out there.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So, what I think is kind of important to understand is, these connections are much deeper. They go back for years and years and years. It’s an exchange. I mean, just to look at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Bahati, he began his political career not in Uganda, but in the United States, when first he connected with some people related to a very mainstream Christian right organization called the Family Research Council</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He came to the United States and studied at the <b>Leadership Institute,</b> the conservative grassroots political organizing institute, where he, as he puts it, you know,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> got to be on a first name basis with people, like Mitch McConnell and John Ensign, he met. And then they put him in touch with the Family, and he started making those connections. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He had those political connections going back well before this conference. <b>So, the reason I say this is that I think that progressives make a mistake when we focus too much on a fringe character like Lively and without recognizing that there are more mainstream currents going on here, and those are the ones we have to address, because Lively is easily dismissed. US senators, not so much.</b></span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">JUAN</span> <span class="caps">GONZALEZ</span>:</strong> Well, that’s one of the things I wanted to ask you about, about the historical roots of why Uganda has become sort of the front line in this effort to spread across Africa these draconian measures against gays and lesbians. Is there any historical basis, other than a few individuals who may have traveled to the United States, for why it’s taken root there?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">JEFF</span> <span class="caps">SHARLET</span>:</strong> Well, again, there’s more than a few individuals. You go back to the beginning of the current regime,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Museveni, President Yoweri Museveni, which goes back to 1986, he came into power as something of a leftist. You go back and you look at the documents for the Family, and they’re looking at this: "We need to make sure this government does not go in the wrong ideological direction, that it remain the most Christian nation in East Africa." </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By their own account, they facilitated the beginning of the US foreign aid relationship with Uganda, which has amounted to billions over the years. And they’ve been, in many ways — politicians connected with that, men like <b>Senator Chuck Grassley, Inhofe, Ashcroft, have been the face of that foreign aid</b>. And what’s happened in Uganda is it’s become this tremendous revival nation with a real sort of growth of religiosity. And, you know, frankly, that’s done some wonderful things for the country. And homophobia wasn’t really a part of it.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is what’s so fascinating. When you go and you speak to the people, talking about the bill, you say, "Well, how far back do you date this problem?" they say, "Oh, this is a very deep problem, the homophobia. Maybe 2003." And what’s interesting there is 2003, 2004, US <span class="caps">PEPFAR</span> money to fight<span class="caps">AIDS</span> starts going into Uganda. Ugandan <span class="caps">LGBT</span> people start encountering human rights activists and health activists from the international community who are saying homosexuality is a human right. And they start seeing themselves, frankly, in a politicized sense. They said, "Wait a minute. We have a right. We can stand up for it." The Americans are very quick to push back. You’ve got a lot of big megachurches in Kampala, the capital, that are led by Americans, and they’re saying to the Ugandans, "You are the new front line in this battle." I mean, just when I was in Kampala last, Pastor Lou Engle, who’s a leader of the Christian right, was over there. And he said,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "In America, we’ve lost the battle, but in Uganda, this is ground zero. You cannot just save Uganda; you can save America." So there’s this sort of idea that they now have this world destiny.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> So, Jeff Sharlet, let’s take this back to the United States, take it back to what has become mainstream politics in the United States. Tell us more fully about the Family, about C Street, and about politicians today who are making these connections.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">JEFF</span> <span class="caps">SHARLET</span>:</strong> Well, you know, as we’ve discussed before, the Family is the oldest, most influential Christian conservative group — Christian conservative political group in Washington, dating all the way back to 1935, when it began as an anti-labor, anti-New Deal coalition, with the idea that bad economies are punishments from God for decadence, for immorality and for our attempts to regulate the market.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And you, you know, fast-forward to today and look at someone like </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who’s emerged as a standard-bearer of the Tea Party within the establishment, also a guy who lives in the subsidized tax-exempt church that the Family operates on Capitol Hill called C Street. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s registered as a church, although it performs none of the functions of a church. And there’s a great group called Clergy Voice that’s actually challenging them on that, the </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IRS</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Jim DeMint is giving us that same rhetoric, saying that the kind of laissez-faire, the radical free market fundamentalist economic policies of the Tea Party are really part of a religious great awakening. And in that, he’s joined by men like Senator Tom Coburn, who lives in the C Street House; Senator Sam Brownback, who’s a former resident; Senator John Thune, recently moved out of the C Street House; Senator Inhofe, as I mentioned; and even some Democrats, like in the past — </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he’s now distanced himself — Senator Mark Pryor, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the pro-war, anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-labor, anti-healthcare, but pro-creationism Democrat from Arkansas, who once explained to me that the Family is really a bipartisan group. And he had learned the meaning of bipartisanship from the Family was that Jesus didn’t come to take sides; He came to take over.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> And talk about how the Family, how C Street, this place where Democrats and mainly Republicans have lived, came to be known. We mentioned it in the lede, but these various sex scandals.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">JEFF</span> <span class="caps">SHARLET</span>:</strong> Yeah, well, we had — last year we had Senator John Ensign, longtime resident of the C Street House — I met him there myself — and he, facing disclosure from his best friend and senior aide, whose wife he had had an affair with, confessed to an affair. And then Governor Mark Sanford, who at the time was a very bright presidential prospect for the Republican Party, a very charismatic guy, sort of publicly redefined the Appalachian Trail when he, you know, sort of described it as leading all the way to Argentina in the arms of his mistress there. Remember, he said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. And he said that he had been seeking counseling at C Street. The third affair was that of former congressman Chip Pickering, a major telecom activist, or lobbyist now, an activist — he’s a lobbyist — who actually conducted his affair in the C Street House, this place registered as a church, according to divorce papers filed by his wife,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> meeting with his mistress, who was a telecom heiress, for whom he left Congress to become a lobbyist</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. So all these affairs started bubbling up, and for a while it was just sort of titillating.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But I think the ideological shift occurred when Governor Sanford, explaining why he was not going to resign, as he had called upon Clinton to do in similar circumstances, was that because he was like King David in the Bible, King David who does some terrible things at times, seduces another woman, arranges to have her husband killed, yet remains in power because he’s chosen by God for leadership. Well, that’s a core teaching of the Family. And I returned to the story and decided, look, I’m going to update this book and write a book about — the last book was sort of about the Family and history. <em>C Street</em> is about what they’re doing right now, starting with those scandals, but then following the money and the ideas out into the world, out into Uganda, out into the Middle East, out throughout Africa, and out into American domestic affairs, as well, where we see that idea of — that some politicians are chosen. We can see that, in an affair, a sex scandal, it’s kind of goofy. But when we’re talking about, say, David Bahati, it becomes really very frightening.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> And finally, the title of your book, <em>C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy</em>. This is not fringe. You don’t see this as fringe in the United States, when you’re talking about "the fundamentalist threat to American democracy." Jeff Sharlet?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">JEFF</span> <span class="caps">SHARLET</span>:</strong> No, you know, in one of the sort of the final chapters of the book, I follow it back from Uganda. And by the way, I should say that most of the Americans — and this is good news — most of the American politicians have sort of said, "Well, we don’t — things have gone too far in Uganda. We don’t support that." The Family — the Americans officially don’t support it. The question is one of accountability. There doesn’t seem to be any accountability for David Bahati. He’s told me that he can — he’s never received any real opposition. But so, I followed that problem there in Uganda — so, OK, this is what’s going on in Uganda, this is sort of the nightmare scenario — I followed it back to the United States and in the US armed forces, where groups linked to the Family — not the same as the Family — but that’s where you see the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">real flowering of a kind of a militarized, politicized fundamentalism, that leads you into situations where you have something like the 15,000-strong Officers’ Christian Fellowship</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. This is not fringe.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These are officers defining their mission as reclaiming territory for Christ in the military, not allowing the opposition — this is how they put it — not allowing the opposition, all of which is spearheaded by Satan, to stand in their way. They describe military personnel who don’t share their religious beliefs as "spiritual terrorists." They describe the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "spiritual war of the greatest magnitude." And you even have situations where you have senior officers — I spoke to one three-star general, who used language to describe the situation we can’t even — you know, we can’t say on TV, said this is an "F-ing clown show," where you have senior officers promoted on the basis of religion, not merit. You have strategy, you have military decisions being based on the Book of Revelation, in some cases. You have troops who are being forced to pray, to traditions not their own. And you have the military, in every way, sort of fulfilling, you know, the kind of al-Qaeda charge against the United States. There’s folks in the military — the vast majority of military personnel are honorable folks, but there’s a very strong core within it that sees their mission not as defending democracy, but as expanding Christ’s kingdom.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, you know, you take that story that starts in this little townhouse on C Street, that expands out into the world through the efforts of men like Senator Inhofe and Senator Coburn, reaches its worst scenario in Uganda, but then you see it kind of simmering and on a boil in the United States, and you realize that fundamentalism, an issue — a political fundamentalism — we’ve got to distinguish that from just people who have private beliefs — an issue that people felt was not part of American life is still very much present and still presenting a real challenge to the pluralist idea, the open public square of democracy idea, where everybody gets to come in and share their ideas.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> Jeff Sharlet, we want to thank you very much for being with us, author of the bestseller <em>The Family</em>, contributing editor for <em>Harper’s Magazine</em> and <em>Rolling Stone</em>, his new book is <em>C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy</em>, speaking to us from Dartmouth College, where he teaches English.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/senator-inhofe-lied-to-rachel-maddow-about-his-knowledge-of-ugandas-kill-the-gays-bill-says-author/politics/2012/03/16/36584</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">march 2012</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican <strong><a href="http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Inhofe" target="blank">Senator James Inhofe</a></strong> in a rare GOP appearance on <a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/46755044#46755044" target="blank">The Rachel Maddow Show</a>, last night labeled as “hysterical” international concern over the Uganda “Kill The Gays” bill, while claiming he has never even heard of the three-year old bill and claiming he has never heard of the bill’s sponsor, MP <strong><a href="http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Bahati" target="blank">David Bahati</a></strong>, one of the most powerful and the best-known Ugandan lawmakers. Senator Inhofe boasts that he has traveled to Africa, and primarily, to <strong><a href="http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Uganda" target="blank">Uganda</a></strong>, almost two dozen times, and met with lawmakers and religious leaders there. A well-respected investigative journalist and popular author who has written two books on the topic says Inhofe is “lying.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><a href="http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Maddow" target="blank">Rachel Maddow</a></strong>, in one segment of her extensive interview with <a href="http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/senator-inhofes-family-has-never-had-a-homosexual/bigotry-watch/2010/09/17/12911" target="blank">the man who claims no one in his family has ever been divorced or gay</a>, asks, now “that the Kill The Gays bill is back now, are you for it or against it?”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Inhofe, in a rather theatrical twist of emotion, responds with this diatribe:</font></p><div><blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Are you saying, are you suggesting, Rachel — I want to make sure everyone understands this — that I am for executing gays, that I somehow knew something about what their philosophy is over there and what they’re doing legislatively?<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> I know Uganda , I know Ethiopia, I know Ghana, I know Benin, I know Africa better than anyone else certainly in the United States Senate</span>. I’ve spent a lot of time over there, I’ve developed close relations over there. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When 9/11 happened, I was the only member of the Armed Services Committee who knew where Africa was. </span>We were making a decision to get into Africa to help train them to resist all the things coming into the state, into the country, into the continent. That’s what I did. So I do know Africa well.</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is not possible for these two statements to co-exist. If Senator Inhofe knows Africa well, then he knows <b>David Bahati</b> — and knows about the Uganda Kill The Gays bill — very well. Frankly, millions of Americans know about David Bahati and his Kill The Gays bill, so if Senator Inhofe doesn’t — after spending hundreds of thousands of you tax dollars on trips to Africa and Uganda, then something is desperately wrong and we should immediately stop paying for these excursions.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no possible way to deny this, and I all but guarantee that anyone feeling like doing a bit of FOIA research could easily prove it.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, the one person best able to prove it might very well be journalist Jeff Sharlet, author of the groundbreaking book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060560053/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thenewcivrigm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060560053">The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power</a></em>. No other American journalist knows Inhofe better than Sharlet.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, what does Sharlet say?</font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sharlet: <span style="line-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">t's also built around internal Family documents that ID </span><span style="line-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Uganda as Inhofe's special responsibility for grooming leaders.</span></font></p><div class="dateline collapsible-container" style="margin-top: 6px; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" href="https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/180671002357927938" data-datetime="2012-03-16T15:04:58+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" style="text-decoration: none; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0);">8:04 AM - 16 Mar 2012</a></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div class="title" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; min-height: 30px; line-height: 1.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/africa/book-american-culture-warriors-in-africa/" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">American Culture Warriors in Africa</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The explosive new book from PRA and senior researcher Rev. 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