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What exactly does Uganda's anti-gay legislation say?

On October 14, 2009, David Bahati, a member of Uganda's parliament, introduced Bill No. 18, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. It begins like this:

"The object of this Bill is to establish a comprehensive consolidated legislation to protect the traditional family by prohibiting (i) any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex; and (ii) the promotion or recognition of such sexual relations"

The bill criminalizes sexual activity between people of the same sex. It also criminalizes the promotion or recognition of such activity by any individual, governmental entity or non-governmental entity either inside or outside of Uganda.

The bill separates gay sex acts into two different categories:

a) aggravated homosexuality: This is where one of the people engaged in gay sexual activity is HIV-positive, or a minor, or disabled. When the bill was first introduced, the punishment for aggravated homosexuality was death. Now, the punishment is life in prison.

b) the offense of homosexuality: This category is very loosely described, and includes those who "promote" or "recognize" homosexuality, as well as those who attempt to engage in it. The punishment is ten years in prison.

The bill was signed into law on February 24th, 2014, by Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni.You can read Uganda's Bill No.18 in its entirety here.

On August 1, 2014, the law was declared "null and void" by Uganda's Constitutional Court who ruled that the bill should never have been voted on in the first place due to a lack of quorum — the minimum number of required members for a vote. However, according to Neela Ghoshal, Senior Researcher for the Human Rights Watch, the judges' ruling may just be a "temporary respite." As she notes, "The law was nullified on procedural grounds and could be presented again in Parliament, and passed in a [legal] way."

What happens if someone is found breaking the law?

According to the now-nullified law, first-time offenders will get 14 years in prison. Repeat offenders will get life in prison. Also, any Ugandan who breaks the law outside of the country will be extradited to Uganda for prosecution.

The first proposal of the bill called for the death penalty for repeat offenders, and others found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality." But this language was dropped amid harsh international criticism. Early drafts also criminalized the failure to report gay people, but this language did not make it into the final draft signed into law.

Why is it called the "Kill the Gays" bill?

When the original law was proposed back in October 2009, the bill called for the death penalty for all Ugandans found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality." As a result, some in the media started calling it the "Kill the Gays" bill.

After its introduction to Parliament, the bill was revised to substitute life imprisonment for capital punishment.

Is this the first anti-gay law in Uganda?

No. Uganda's laws against "buggery" go back to the British Colonial period, and have never been repealed.

Before this legislation was proposed, anti-sodomy laws were already on the books in Uganda. Section 145 of the Penal Code Act of 1950 reads:

Any person who-

(a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature;

(b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or

(c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.

The punishment for committing any of these offenses is "liable to imprisonment for seven years," according to section 146. The phrase "against the order of nature" refers to sexual activity that is deemed unnatural — for instance, sodomy.

The new anti-gay law differs from the 1950 act in that it broadens what constitutes offenses, and introduces even harsher punishments. Notably, the new law introduces the term "aggravated homosexuality" to describe a host of same-sex sexual activities — sex with an HIV-positive person, for example — that were not covered in the 1950 act. The new law also criminalizes the "promotion" of homosexuality, which, according to BBC, is where "activists encourage others to come out." Other criminalized activities in the new law include the "conspiracy to commit homosexuality," as well as "aiding and abetting homosexuality," which is vaguely defined as offering your property or other "moveable assets for purposes of homosexuality."

How do Ugandans feel about the law?

According to a recent Pew Poll, 89 percent of Ugandans think homosexuality is morally unacceptable. While the anti-gay bill was being stalled during the legislation process, the Ugandan Speaker of Parliament claimed that Ugandans were growing impatient, and were "demanding" the new anti-homosexuality bill to be signed. "Ugandans want that law as a Christmas gift," she said. On April 2, 2014, The Guardian yyy reported that 30,000 Ugandans gathered for a celebration at a stadium in Kampala to "give thanks" to the president of Uganda for passing the anti-gay law.

There are a few notable Ugandans speaking out against the law. Bishop Christopher Senyonjo has spoken publicly against the law, and so have representatives from Uganda's Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights.

Uganda isn't alone in its condemnation of gay sex. Homosexuality is considered a criminal offense in 38 nations in Africa. In February 2014, the President of Gambia said, "LGBT" stands for "Leprosy, Gonorrhea, Bacteria, and Tuberculosis," and vowed to fight gay "vermin" as fiercely as he fights malaria-causing mosquitoes. Also in February, Nigeria signed a similar anti-gay bill into law.

How does this law affect Ugandans?

Estimates currently project that there are over 500,000 LGBT people in Uganda. And public hostility toward these LGBT people is empowered by this legislation. But according to one Ugandan trans woman, her country was anti-LGBT long before this bill was introduced: "The law did not bring homophobia. The law will not make it disappear."

Studies have shown a connection between increased HIV rates and LGBT stigma. The forced HIV tests that the new law forces "aggravated offenders" to undergo are only going to enhance the stigma associated with HIV — which is already a huge problem in Uganda.

According to Pepe Julian Onziema, program director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, since the introduction of the law to parliament, violence towards LGBT people has increased. "We've seen our friends leave the country. We've seen people attempt to commit suicide. We've seen communities attempt what we call mob attacks. Now that [the bill] has become law we just expect that to increase."

A statement from the White House said that this law negatively impacts the heterosexual community in Uganda, too, since it "reflects poorly on the country's commitment to protecting the rights of its people." The statement also said the law "will undermine public health, including efforts to fight HIV/AIDS."

Has anyone in Uganda been killed or arrested as a result of this law?

Yes, at least one person. In October 2012, in celebration of the anniversary of the new law, the Ugandan weekly tabloid paper Rolling Stone (which has no relation to the US magazine) published a "leaked" list of the names, addresses, and pictures of the Top 100 "homos" in Uganda. Three months later, one of the people outed by the tabloid — a gay activist named David Kato, whom the New York Times has called "the most outspoken gay rights activist in Uganda" — was murdered, beaten to death by a hammer. As the New York Times reported, "Police officials were quick to chalk up the motive to robbery, but members of the small and increasingly besieged gay community in Uganda suspect otherwise." According to theBBC, the priest presiding over Kato's funeral "condemned gay people."

Giles Muhame, the editor of Uganda's Rolling Stone, told CNN that he published the list so Ugandans would turn gay people in to the authorities. He hoped "the police would investigate them, prosecute them, and hang them." Muhame says he didn't want members of the public to take the law into their own hands. Muhame also said there was no need for anxiety and overreaction. "We should not overblow the death of one," he said.

Frank Mugisha, the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, blamed Kato's death on the American evangelical Christians who visited Uganda in 2009 to lead what many have called anti-gay workshops. "The blood of David is on the hands of American preachers who came to Uganda," said Mugisha. "They share much of the blame for presenting us as less than human."

In April 2014, The Guardian reported the first arrests since the passing of the new law. Kim Mukisa and Jackson Mukasa have been in prison since December, when they were charged with violating the 1950 Penal Code Act by "having sexual knowledge of a person against the order of nature." Their trialbegan in May, and has been postponed several times.

Who has criticized the law?

In the US, President Obama has consistently condemned this legislation. He says Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's signature on the anti-gay bill "complicates" the US/Uganda relationship. The US alone gives them $400 million annually, but Uganda has said it doesn't want any aid with moral strings attached.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron also put pressure on Uganda to reject the law.As quoted in BBC, Cameron said all recipients of UK aid must "adhere to proper human rights." John Nagenda, adviser to President Museveni, fired back that Uganda is "tired of these lectures" from Western powers. If Cameron and others stop sending money, "so be it," said Nagenda.

In a powerful speech delivered to the United Nations in December 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called upon every nation to eliminate laws that criminalize homosexuality. She declared that "gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights." Even though she didn't mention Uganda by name, the point of her speech was made evident from the first line: "It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay, or allow those who harm gay people to go unpunished." Ugandan presidential adviser John Nagenda reacted negatively to "that woman" — referring to Clinton — trying to interfere with his country: "If the Americans think they can tell us what to do, they can go to hell."

Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson, Vatican official and president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has criticized the legislation. He said "homosexuals are not criminals," but urged the international community to continue to send financial aid to Uganda.

On February 20, 2014, Human Rights Watch urged the US to recall its ambassador to Uganda. The groups also encouraged America "to conduct strategic consultations on the US/Uganda relationship."

Secretary of State John Kerry called the law "morally wrong" and said the US government is beginning an "internal review" regarding its relationship with Uganda.

On March 11, 2014, a group of Ugandans filed a constitutional challenge to the law. According to the Human Rights Watch, the petitioners included a law professor, one current and one former member of parliament, a journalist, a medical doctor, several LGBT activists, and two nongovernmental organizations.

The World Bank has postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda in response to the law.

The global LGBT rights group All Out has been circulating a petition called "Stop Uganda's anti-gay bill." There are currently more than 250,000 signatures.

How were American evangelical Christians involved with the bill?

Many people think that David Bahati, the Ugandan legislator who introduced the bill, was influenced by several prominent American evangelical Christians, including some ex-gays — people who claim to have been "healed" of gayness — and an anti-gay minister named Scott Lively.

In March 2009, Lively and other Evangelicals went to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to host a conference called "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda." The New York Times obtained recordings of the conference and wrote about it in detail. An Anglican priest from Zambia who is sympathetic to LGBT causes, Rev. Kapya Kaoma, attended the conference "undercover" in the hopes of exposing what was happening behind closed doors. He then wrote in Public Eye Magazine that the conference convinced Ugandan lawmakers that homosexuality was "evil" and "needed to be tackled with force." Kaoma also posted of the conference. According to Kaoma, attendees left the conference with a renewed passion to enact anti-gay legislation.

Less than a month after Lively's event, Parliament passed a resolution allowing Bahati to submit a bill designed to crack down on homosexuality. Bahati set to work right away to draft the bill, and then submitted it in October 2009.

Uganda's Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, holding him accountable for inciting crimes against humanity. According to the Washington Post, during his conference in Uganda, "Lively not only advocated bad ideas in an abstract context but helped various Ugandans conceive and manage a campaign of persecution." In other words, the lawsuit alleges, the human rights abuses permitted by the anti-gay law are a direct result of Lively's work in Uganda. Currently, Lively is awaiting his trial.

What is 'God Loves Uganda'?

*God Loves Uganda* is a 2013 documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. The documentary follows Christian missionaries from the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer on their first trip to Uganda, flashing back and forth between Uganda and Kansas City. The film explores the connection between Uganda's anti-homosexuality law and American Evangelicals, and ultimately suggests that the Ugandan legislation is a manifestation of American culture wars. According to a reviewer at the Washington Post, the film "strongly implies" that the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda is the direct result of talks given there by Evangelical Scott Lively. (Lively is not a member of the International House of Prayer.)

Film reviews have been mixed, praising Williams for his bringing attention to an underreported issue, but wondering about his creative license. The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film favorably overall, though noted that it "might have benefited from a bit more nuance … Surely not all Christian efforts in Uganda are not reprehensible." Slate made a similar point: "The story God Loves Uganda tells is damning. … It is, nonetheless, worth asking whether the anti-gay views of the American church can be so clearly blamed for what is happening in a society where homophobia was already prevalent." Christianity Today went one step further, calling the film "propaganda" instilling "evangelophobia."

In May, Williams spoke to Vox for an interview about his film and the controversy surrounding it.

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Are there any organizations working with LGBT people in Uganda?

Yes. Sexual Minorities Uganda is an umbrella organization consisting of many LGBT advocacy groups in Uganda. The advocacy group has been awarded the Rafto Prize for Human Rights for their continuing work for LGBT activism. SMUG was founded in 2004 by Victor Mukasa, a transman and LGBT activist, and is currently headed by Frank Mugisha, the executive director. In 2011, Mugisha was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his activism on behalf of Uganda's LGBT community.

On March 14, 2012, SMUG filed a lawsuit in federal court in Massachusetts against Scott Lively — the American Evangelical whom they claim is responsible for initiating Uganda's antigay law. Lively was sued under the Alien Tort Statute, which allows the federal court to hear lawsuits from non-US citizens who have survived human rights abuses.

One of the LGBT groups under the umbrella of SMUG is Freedom and Roam Uganda, which was founded in 2003 by Ugandan lesbian and advocate Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera. When the Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone published a list of the "Top Homos" in Uganda, Nabagesera filed a petition with the High Court against the article. On November 1, 2010, Nabagesera's petition was successful. High court judge Vincent Musoke-Kibuuka claimed that the printing of the "Top Homos" article was an "invasion of the right to privacy," and ordered the paper to stop publishing the names and pictures of people it alleged to be gay.

Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo is a straight LGBT ally. In 2001, the Anglican Church of Uganda caught wind of his pro-LGBT outreach, and barred him from conducting services. Senyonjo was ultimately expelled from his church, which resulted in the loss of his pension. Senyonjo was "outed" on Rolling Stone's "Top homos" list due to his LGBT activism. He is the founder of Integrity Uganda and St. Paul's Foundation for International Reconciliation, programs which provide healthcare, education, and counseling services to LGBT people. Senyonjo has received international recognition for his ongoing work on behalf of Uganda's LGBT community, including the Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2012.

Other LGBT organizations in Uganda include Ice Breakers Uganda, Spectrum Uganda, and Transgender Initiative Uganda. In May 2012, Ice Breakers helped open the first LGBT clinic in Uganda.

What did Uganda's president say about repealing the law?

Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, had the power to repeal the law. However, the president has repeatedly said he had no plansto do so: "I don't like orders from anybody outside Uganda."

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This is very much a work in progress. It will continue to be updated as events unfold, new research gets published, and fresh questions emerge.

So if you have additional questions or comments or quibbles or complaints, send a note to Brandon Ambrosino: brandon@vox.com

How have these cards changed?

This is a running list of substantive updates, corrections, and additions to this card stack. These cards were last updated on August 1, 2014. Here is a summary of edits:

May 9: Card 9 has been corrected. It originally stated that Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma was a Ugandan priest. In fact, he is from Zambia.
August 1: The card stack has been updated to reflect that Uganda's Constitutional Court has nullified the Anti Homosexuality law.

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What the Family isn’t saying about the kill-the-gays bill in Uganda

By Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

“We didn’t want to go too public at first. You pushed us—you and others.”

That’s Bob Hunter, speaking to Rachel Maddow on Wednesday’s program on behalf of the secretive religious

organization that runs the C Street House, known as The Family, or the Fellowship. After decades of silence and

denials, Rachel Maddow, and my book on the group’s history, The Family, have forced the organization’s hand. At stake

is the group’s relationship to the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill -- the “kill-the-gays” bill -- and how far the Family

will go to stop the Ugandan politicians it’s supported from embracing genocide.

Over the course of a recent three hour interview I conducted with Hunter, I learned that last fall the Family held a

summit of sorts in search of a strategy with which to respond to the unwanted scrutiny. The Christian Right World

magazine reported that the meeting became a referendum on the Family’s decades-old culture of secrecy and denials,

with professional media advice coming from one of Rick Warren’s PR advisors and far-right columnist Cal Thomas.

The result is a strange mix of candor and evasion.

As the architect of the Family’s 24-year relationship with Ugandan

dictator Yoweri Museveni, Hunter wants it clear that killing gay people was not what he had in mind. He told me he

wanted to speak with Rachel to denounce the bill and put pressure on Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe -- the

Family’s formally designated point man for Uganda. In a subsequent conversation, Hunter clarified that had been

willing to talk about Inhofe but preferred not to.

Instead, he attacked me. My facts? No. My arguments? Not so much. No, Hunter went for the jugular: my book cover.

Declared Hunter: “I think a lot of what has been said historically has been inaccurate. And Jeff Sharlet in interviews

with me has admitted a lot of it has been inaccurate. In fact, he even has said that the cover of his book is inaccurate.”

How can a book cover be “inaccurate”? Hunter nailed me: I did indeed tell him I don’t like the cover much. What can I

say? I would have preferred some color. But the facts inside? I’ll stand by those, with one exception.

Working with two documents Hunter prepared for government and Family leaders, “Re: organizing the invisible” and “A

Trip to East Africa—Fall 1986,” andFamily leader Doug Coe’saccount of Hunter’s trip, I argued that Hunter traveled at

the behest of the U.S. government. Hunter’s correction? He didn’t go at the government’s behest; American politicians

went to Uganda at his behest. He didn’t work for them; they worked for him.

Hunter also told Rachel, “I also gave you the clips on the fact that [Sharlet] said that the Fellowship does not engage in

politics as evidenced by the fact that we attract politicians of all stripes.” The truth is that much of 32,000-word

transcript of our interview Hunter had professionally prepared is dedicated to a polite but firm argument between us

over this very point. Nowhere do I say that the Family does not engage in politics.

Writing on the blog of Warren Throckmorton, a conservative Christian scholar of real conscience who has taken the

lead in fighting the kill-the-gays bill, I responded to Hunter:

The Family/Fellowship has functioned as a political organization ever since it was first formed in the 1930s to

elect Arthur Langlie to the office of the Washington governor’s office. It was political when it threw its muscle

behind the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act that undid much of the New Deal; it was political when it lobbied vigorously

against the creation of Israel; it was political, in 1959, when itarranged U.S. support for the Haitian dictator

Papa Doc Duvalier;

it was political in the late 60s, when it became the back channel of communication between

the Nixon administration and the genocidal regime of Indonesian dictator Suharto; it was political when became

a forum through which associates lobbied for billions of U.S. aid to the junta of Brazilian generals in the early

70s; it was political when it sent Senator Chuck Grassley to Somalia (and Uganda) in the early 80s to build U.S.

support for the genocidal regime of dictator Siad Barre; and it’s political now, as it struggles to do damage

control over the Uganda issue. Sending someone like Senator Jim Inhofe to meet with foreign leaders — readers

should know that goes through the State Department — on the taxpayer’s tab is political.

Hunter contacted Throckmorton to complain about my comment. Throckmorton cited the examples above as evidence

that the group is, indeed, political. Hunter’s response? “Ancient history.” Nonetheless, he contacted another senior

Family member, Kent Hotaling, who has been involved with the Family’s foreign affairs since the 1960s. Hunter agreed

to share with me their exchange. Hotaling informed Hunter:

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“I think it is impossible to say that we are not political when we work with so many in the political world.

However, the key issue is that we do not as a group have a political agenda that we are promoting. We support

one another because of the friendships that develop."

There you have it: The Family is political, but it has no political agenda. This in keeping with Hunter’s insistence that

there is no membership despite the fact that he refers to prominent politicians as members, that the group is too

secretive, even though he can’t really tell you about it.

The Family says that it’s dedicated to holding its powerful members accountable, but Hunter didn’t have much to say

about Museveni. Instead, he threw two other Family men connected to the bill under the bus. Speaking of Uganda’s

minister of ethics, James Nsaba Buturo, one of the bill’s chief backers, Hunter said, “I’ve never heard of the… guy.”

(Hunter later told me he meant to say he’d never heard of Buturo before this controversy.) Buturo, who told my

researcher that’s he planning on attending the Family’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington this February (Hunter

says otherwise) is an organizer of the Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast -- an event Hunter helped found. Says Hunter

in our interview: “He inherited [the job], because they decided the minister of ethics should run it.”

Hunter argues that there is no “control or command” in the Family. The nearly 600 boxes of documents the Family

dumped at the Billy Graham Center Archives – membership lists, authority flow charts, minutes of leadership

meetings, budgets, and more – tell another tale. Said Hunter when I raised this point: “I really don’t know the history

as well as you do. “

The Family is not a conspiracy. But it is a very well organized social movement, with clearly designated roles and

responsibilities, as revealed by a documents related to the Family’s African work supplied to me this week by a Family

associate troubled by Hunter’s contradictions. Here’s a statement of purpose for part of the African mission:

THE EXECUTION OF THE VISION

A. A congressman and/or Senator from the United States will befriend the leader of another country and

tell him/her how Jesus and His teachings will help his country and its poor.

B. U.S. leader and foreign leader will select 5 men (mentors) from the foreign country to commit to learn

about Jesus and how He will help themselves, their country and the poor.

… We will teach the mentors to confess their sins (known or unknown) and to ask the Holy Spirit of Christ

to live in them, and to teach them how to live, what to think and what to say.

When Hunter met kill-the-gays bill author David Bahati in the United States at the National Prayer Breakfast, was he

here to learn “how to live, what to think and what to say?” We don’t know. (Hunter says he doesn’t, either.) But a

2003-4 budget for the project makes clear who the U.S. Senator is: Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, designated as partner for

11 African leaders, including the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, relationships supported by funds raised

by teams of American businessmen and religious activists.Inhofe’s Uganda mission was budgeted for $70,000 – he

traveled there on the taxpayers’ dime– almost twice as much as that for the other nations.

It’s clear that the kill-the-gays bill is an embarrassment to the Family, even to Senator Inhofe, who once took to the

floor of the Senate to proudly boast that there are no homosexuals in his family. But Bob Hunter’s not cut from the

same cloth as Jim Inhofe. Most of his personal efforts in the Family really do come under the heading of “good works,”

helping orphans and hospitals, recruiting political figures such as Senator Chuck Grassley and Andrew Young to bring

warring parties in Africa to the negotiating table. (In our interview, Hunter refers to them as “bait. They wouldn’t like

to hear me say that, but that’s what they were.”)

When Hunter told me he wanted to fight the bill, I was glad to help

reach out to media outlets. Stopping the kill-the-gays bill from becoming law is more important than any argument we

have between us. And I believe Hunter when he says the Family is now working “privately on the ground” to kill the

kill-the-gays bill. I even believe Hunter when he says he wants the Family to be more transparent.

But the interview he gave Rachel on Wednesday’s show was a bad start on both scores. Not only were his statements

lacking in transparency, they also fell far short of accountability. “I think one of the points that you make is valid,”

Hunter told me when we spoke, “is the tension between accessibility and accountability.” The tension, that is, between

winning access to power and holding power accountable. By refusing to take responsibility for its relationships with the

three key Ugandan political figures associated with the bill – Bahati, Buturo, and President Museveni – the Family has

chosen access over accountability rather than reaching for what’s best about their own Christian tradition—bearing

witness, speaking truth to power.

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Friday, the Ugandan parliament approved a bill that will punish "aggravated homosexuality" with life imprisonment. The new measure comes after years of debate over the measure that was introduced to "protect" Ugandan children from "recruitment" by Western LGBT individuals. Homosexuality is already illegal in the deeply Christian country, but Ugandan lawmakers were largely inspired to strengthen the punishment for being gay thanks to a campaign by a handful of American evangelical activists.

Breaking News : I am officially illegal : Uganda Parliament passes the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009

— Dr. Frank Mugisha (@frankmugisha) December 20, 2013

Although the bill has been considered in Parliament several times since its first introduction in 2009, today's vote seemed to happen with little warning. That's why there are some questions out there about what, exactly, it contains, at least until the final text is publicly available. The bill, widely known as the Ugandan "kill the gays" bill, originally included a provision that would make repeated instances of homosexual acts punishable by death. Member of Parliament David Bahati said on Friday that the death penalty provision would be scrapped from the final version sent to President Yoweri Museveni, and most reports indicate that the death penalty sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. Museveni has to approve the bill for it to become law. The president has said that he doesn't think Uganda should kill gay people, but "we cannot accept promotion of homosexuality as if it is a good thing."

There's also a question of quorum: the country's prime minister opposed the vote, arguing that not enough MPs were present, according to the BBC. Assuming the vote stands, at least one Ugandan lawmaker has already promised to challenge it in court.

Based on earlier versions of the bill, it looks like the measure also contains a provision that could imprison Ugandans who fail to report homosexual activity by others, and a provision banning the "promotion" of homosexuality, similar to Russia's new anti-gay "propaganda" measure. (In Russia, it's believed that merely stating your are gay or support gay people could be grounds for "promotion.")

"I am glad the parliament has voted against evil," Bahati said to the AFP of the successful passage of his bill. Many believe that the new law will lead to increased harassment and violence against the country's LGBT population, which is already seen more than its share.

Although the bill prompted widespread international condemnation, including from President Obama, the American influence on its contents is well-documented. A three-day series of talks in the country by a group of American anti-homosexual activists in 2009 is seen as a catalyst for the measure. The talks addressed an audience of influential Ugandans, including lawmakers, on the Western "gay agenda," including the (obviously false) notion that gay activists abroad were targeting Africa for "recruitment." All three Americans involved have denied that their intention was to produce the "kill the gays bill," although one of the three, Scott Lively, has acknowledged discussing the bill with the Ugandan lawmakers. In a March 2009 post on his visit to the country, Lively noted that one Ugandan referred to his campaign as "a nuclear bomb against the "gay" agenda in Uganda." The other two Americans were Caleb Lee Brundidge and Exodus International board member Don Schmierer.

According to Jeff Sharlet, who reported extensively on the bill's American roots, Bahati has also cited the anti-homosexuality message of Pastor Rick Warren as an influence. Warren, along with John Ashcroft and Senator Jim Inhofe, have been frequent visitors to the country's annual, American-style National Prayer Breakfasts. However, Warren, Inhofe, and Ashcroft have all since condemned the bill.

Source: Gay Uganda

Lively's work in Uganda to spread the idea of a Western gay conspiracy resulted in an American lawsuit, charging that Lively's message promotes human rights abuses in Uganda. Anti-gay sentiment is already widespread in the conservative country. In 2010, Rolling Stone (the Ugandan paper, not the American rock magazine) published a list of homosexuals living in the country, including their names, photos and addresses. "Hang Them," the cover said of the individuals on the list. One of the two men pictured on the magazine cover is gay activist David Kato. He was murdered in 2011, although Ugandan police have said that they have no evidence to prove his death was a result of his LGBT activism in the country. Many other Ugandans targeted in the article went into hiding. Other LGBT individuals in the country have been subject to beatings, harassment, and "corrective rape" over the years.

The bill isn't the only restrictive measure passed through Parliament this week. Yesterday, Uganda passed a bill that will ban miniskirts along with most clothing deemed too revealing of particular parts of the body. The bill also bans any acts intended to "corrupt morals."

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (pronunciation (:{help:(style="cursor:help"):}:·:{info:(style="cursor:help"):}:); born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician who has been President of Uganda since 1986.Museveni was involved in rebellions that toppled notorious Ugandan leaders Idi Amin (1971–79) and Milton Obote (1980–85) before capturing power in the 80s. In the mid to late 1990s, Museveni was celebrated by the West as part of a new generation of African leaders. During Museveni's presidency, Uganda has experienced relative peace and significant success in battling HIV/AIDS.

At the same time, Uganda remains a country suffering from high levels of corruption, unemployment and poverty. Museveni's presidency has been marred by involvement in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other Great Lakes region conflicts; the rebellion in Northern Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army which caused a drastic humanitarian emergency; and the suppression of**political opposition**and constitutional amendments scrapping presidential term limits (2005) and the presidential age limit (2017), thus enabling the extension of his rule. These have been a concern to domestic and foreign commentators.

Early life and education

Museveni was born on 15 September 1944 in Ntungamo, Uganda Protectorate, to parents Mzee Amos Kaguta (1916–2013), a cattle herder, and Esteri Kokundeka Nganzi (1918–2001), a housewife. He is a Muhororoby tribe ^[2]

Museveni gets his middle name from his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta. Kaguta is also the father of Museveni's brother Caleb Akandwanaho, popularly known in Uganda as Salim Saleh,^[3] and sister Violet Kajubiri.^[4]

CareerMuseveni attended Kyamate Elementary School, Mbarara High School, and Ntare School. In 1967, he went to the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. There, he studied economics and political science and became a Marxist, involving himself in radical pan-African politics. While at university, he formed the University Students' African Revolutionary Front activist group and led a student delegation to FRELIMO territory in Portuguese Mozambique, where he received guerrilla training. Studying under the leftist Walter Rodney, among others, Museveni wrote a university thesis on the applicability of Frantz Fanon's ideas on revolutionary violence to post-colonial Africa.

1966–1980: Front for National Salvation and the toppling of Amin

Main article: Uganda-Tanzania War

The exile forces opposed to Amin invaded Uganda from Tanzania in September 1972 and were repelled, suffering heavy losses.^[5] In October, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Mogadishu Agreement that denied the rebels the use of Tanzanian soil for aggression against Uganda.^[6] Museveni broke away from the mainstream opposition and formed the Front for National Salvation in 1973.^[5] In August of the same year, he married Janet Kataha.^[7]

1981–1986: The war in the bush

Main article: Ugandan Bush War

Obote II and the National Resistance Army

With the overthrow of Idi Amin in 1979 in the Uganda-Tanzania War and the contested election that returned Uganda's earlier president Milton Obote to power in 1980, Museveni returned to Uganda with his supporters to gather strength in their rural strongholds in the Bantu-dominated south and south-west to form the Popular Resistance Army (PRA). They then planned a rebellion against the second Obote regime (Obote II) and its armed forces, the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA). The insurgency began with an attack on an army installation in the central Mubende district on 6 February 1981. The PRA later merged with former president Yusufu Lule's fighting group, the Uganda Freedom Fighters, to create the National Resistance Army (NRA) with its political wing, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Two other rebel groups, the Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF) and the Former Uganda National Army (FUNA), engaged Obote's forces. The FUNA was formed in the West Nile sub-region from the remnants of Amin's supporters.^[8]

The NRA/NRM developed a "Ten-point Programme" for an eventual government, covering: democracy; security; consolidation of national unity; defending national independence; building an independent, integrated, and self-sustaining economy; improvement of social services; elimination of corruption and misuse of power; redressing inequality; cooperation with other African countries; and a mixed economy.^[9]

The Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook estimates that the Obote regime was responsible for more 100,000 civilian deaths across Uganda.^[10]

1985 Nairobi Agreement

Main article: Nairobi Agreement, 1985

On 27 July 1985, subfactionalism within the Uganda People's Congress government led to a successful military coup against Obote by his former army commander, Lieutenant-General Tito Okello, an Acholi. Museveni and the NRM/NRA were angry that the revolution for which they had fought for four years had been "hijacked" by the UNLA, which they viewed as having been discredited by gross human rights violations during Obote II.^[11]

Despite these reservations, however, the NRM/NRA eventually agreed to peace talks presided over by a Kenyan delegation headed by President Daniel arap Moi. The talks, which lasted from 26 August to 17 December, were notoriously acrimonious and the resultant ceasefire broke down almost immediately. The final agreement, signed in Nairobi, called for a ceasefire, demilitarisation of Kampala, integration of the NRA and government forces, and absorption of the NRA leadership into the Military Council.^[12] These conditions were never met.^[citation ^needed]

The push for Kampala

While involved in the peace negotiations, Museveni was courting General Mobutu Sésé Seko of Zaire to forestall the involvement of Zairean forces in support of Okello's military junta. On 20 January 1986, however, several hundred troops loyal to Amin were accompanied into Ugandan territory by the Zairean military. The forces intervened following secret training in Zaire and an appeal from Okello ten days previously.^[13]

By 22 January, government troops in Kampala had begun to quit their posts en masse as the rebels gained ground from the south and south-west.^[12]

Museveni was sworn in as president on 29 January. "This is not a mere change of guard, it is a fundamental change," said Museveni, after a ceremony conducted by British-born Chief Justice Peter Allen. Speaking to crowds of thousands outside the Ugandan parliament, the new president promised a return to democracy: "The people of Africa, the people of Uganda, are entitled to a democratic government. It is not a favour from any regime. The sovereign people must be the public, not the government."^[14][15]

President: 1986–present

1986–1996: Museveni in power

Museveni's meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in October 1987

Political and economic regeneration

Uganda began participating in an IMF Economic Recovery Program in 1987. Its objectives included the restoration of incentives in order to encourage growth, investment, employment and exports; the promotion and diversification of trade with particular emphasis on export promotion; the removal of bureaucratic constraints and divestment from ailing public enterprises so as to enhance sustainable economic growth and development through the private sector; and the liberalisation of trade at all levels.^[16]

Internal security and human rights

Further information: Human rights in Uganda

The NRM came to power promising to restore security and respect for human rights. Indeed, this was part of the NRM's ten-point programme, as Museveni noted in his swearing in speech:^[17][18]

The second point on our programme is security of person and property. Every person in Uganda must [have absolute] security to live wherever he wants. Any individual, any group who threatens the security of our people must be smashed without mercy. The people of Uganda should die only from natural causes which are beyond our control, but not from fellow human beings who continue to walk the length and breadth of our land.

Although Museveni now headed up a new government in Kampala, the NRM could not project its influence fully across Ugandan territory, finding itself fighting a number of insurgencies. From the beginning of Museveni's presidency, he drew strong support from the Bantu-speaking south and south-west, where Museveni had his base. Museveni managed to get the Karamojong, a group of semi-nomads in the sparsely populated north-east that had never had a significant political voice, to align with him by offering them a stake in the new government. The northern region along the Sudanese border, however, proved more troublesome. In the West Nile sub-region, inhabited by Kakwa and Lugbara (who had previously supported Amin), the UNRF and FUNA rebel groups fought for years until a combination of military offensives and diplomacy pacified the region. The leader of the UNRF, Moses Ali, gave up his struggle to become second deputy prime minister. People from the northern parts of the country viewed the rise of a government led by a person from the south with great trepidation. Rebel groups sprang up among the Lango, Acholi, and Teso peoples, though they were overwhelmed by the strength of the NRA except in the far north where the Sudanese border provided a safe haven. The Acholi rebel Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA) failed to dislodge the NRA occupation of Acholiland, leading to the desperate chiliasm of the Holy Spirit Movement(HSM). The defeat of both the UPDA and HSM left the rebellion to a group that eventually became known as the Lord's Resistance Army, which would turn upon the Acholi themselves.^[19]

The NRA subsequently earned a reputation for respecting the rights of civilians, althoughMuseveni later received criticism for using child soldiers. Undisciplined elements within the NRA soon tarnished a hard-won reputation for fairness. "When Museveni's men first came they acted very well – we welcomed them," said one villager, "but then they started to arrest people and kill them."^[20][21]

In March 1989, Amnesty International published a human rights report on Uganda, entitled Uganda, the Human Rights Record 1986–1989. It documented gross human rights violations committed by NRA troops. In one of the most intense phases of the war, between October and December 1988, the NRA forcibly cleared approximately 100,000 people from their homes in and around Gulu town. Soldiers committed hundreds of extrajudicial executions as they forcibly moved people, burning down homes and granaries.^[22] In its conclusion, however, the report offered some hope:

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Any assessment of the NRM government's human rights performance is, perhaps inevitably, less favourable after four years in power than it was in the early months. However, it is not true to say, as some critics and outside observers, that there has been a continuous slide back towards gross human rights abuse, that in some sense Uganda is fated to suffer at the hands of bad government.

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First term (1996–2001)

New democratic mandate

Elections

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Third term (2006–2011)

In 2007, Museveni deployed troops to the African Union's peacekeeping operation in Somalia.

Also in this term Museveni held meetings with investors that included Wisdek, to promote Uganda's call centre and outsourcing industry and create employment to the country.^[64]

September 2009 riots

In September 2009 Museveni refused Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi, the Buganda King, permission to visit some areas of the Buganda Kingdom, particularly the Kayunga district. Riots occurred and over 40 people were killed while others remain imprisoned to this date. Furthermore, nine more people were killed during the April 2011 "Walk to Work" demonstrations. According to the Human Rights Watch 2013 World Report on Uganda, the government has failed to investigate the killings associated with both of these events.^[65]

Fundamentalist Christianity

In 2009, MSNBC and NPR reported on Jeff Sharlet's investigation regarding ties between Museveni and the American fundamentalist Christian organization The Fellowship (also known as "The Family").^[66][67] Sharlet reports that Douglas Coe, leader of The Fellowship, identified Museveni as the organization's "key man in Africa."^[67]

LGBT rights

Further international scrutiny accompanied the 2009 Ugandan efforts to institute the death penalty for homosexuality, with British, Canadian, French, and American leaders expressing concerns for human rights.^[68][69]British newspaper The Guardian reported that Museveni "appeared to add his backing" to the legislative effort by, among other things, claiming "European homosexuals are recruiting in Africa", and saying gay relationships were against God's will.^[70]

Fourth term (2011–2016)

Main article: Ugandan general election, 2011

Museveni is greeted by US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in 2013

Museveni was re-elected on 20 February 2011 with a 68 percent majority with 59 percent of registered voters having voted. The election results were disputed by both the European Union and the opposition. "The electoral process was marred with avoidable administrative and logistical failures", according to the European Union election observer team.^[71][72]

Following the fall of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Museveni became the fifth-longest serving African leader.^[73]

In October 2011, the annual inflation rate reached 30.5 percent, principally due to food and fuel increases.^[74] Earlier in 2011, opposition leader Kizza Besigye staged "Walk to Work" protests against the high cost of living. On 28 April 2011, Besigye was arrested because Museveni said Besigye had attacked first, a charge he denied.^[75] Besigye's arrest led to more riots in Kampala.^[76] Besigye promised that "peaceful demonstrations" would continue. The government's response to the riots has been condemned by donor nations.^[77]

In more recent years, infringements on press freedom have increasingly been a central focus. According to Human Rights Watch, "Between January and June [2013], a media watchdog organization registered 50 attacks on journalists, despite multiple pledges to respect media freedom."^[78] During this period, two widely read periodicals, The Daily Monitor and The Red Pepper, were shut down and seized by the government because they published allegations about a "plot to assassinate senior government and military officials who [were] opposed to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ... and his plans to hand over power to his son when he retires".^[79]

Another issue of human rights became an issue in early 2014 when Museveni signed an anti-homosexuality bill into law. In an interview with CNN, Museveni called homosexuals "disgusting" and said that homosexuality was a learned trait. Western leaders, including United States President Obama, condemned the law.^[80]

Museveni has criticised the US's involvement in the Libyan Civil War, and in a UN speech argued that military intervention from African countries produces more stable countries in the long term, which he calls "African solutions for African problems."^[81]

Fifth term (2016–present)

2016 election

Main article: Ugandan general election, 2016

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http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/04/06/kony-2012-a-trojan-horse-to-get-into-schools-said-invisible-children-cofounder-russell/

Posted by B. E. Wilson at 7:03 am

April 6, 2012

KONY 2012: a “Trojan Horse” To Get Into Schools, Said Invisible Children Cofounder Russell

What’s a ‘Trojan Horse’? See footnote

[below: in audio obtained by Truth Wins Out, from a 2005 San Antonio conference, Jason Russell states that Invisible Children is a "Trojan Horse".]

As the LGBT rights watchdog group Truth Wins Out reported yesterday, in an April 5th, 2012 press release, the Invisible Children nonprofit behind the viral video hit KONY 2012, and its video sequel “Beyond Famous”, appears to have an invisible agenda – which TWO’s Executive Director Wayne Besen calls “stealth evangelism”:

“In audio TWO discovered from a 2005 Christian conference in San Antonio, Invisible Children’s co-founder Jason Russell called his organization a “Trojan Horse” designed to infiltrate secular institutions and surreptitiously promote his group’s version of Christian fundamentalism. The audiotape reveals that that his organization isparticularly focused on targeting youth in public schools.According to Russell’s remarks (0:44):

“Coming in January we are trying to hit as many high schools, churches, and colleges as possible with this movie. We are able to be the Trojan Horse in a sense, going into a secular realm and saying, guess what life is about orphans, and it’s about the widow. It’s about the oppressed. That’s God’s heart. And to sit in a public high school and tell them about that has been life-changing. Because they get so excited. And it’s not driven by guilt, it’s driven by an adventure and the adventure is God’s.”

“This vividly reveals Invisible Children’s invisible agenda,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “This group is not simply about exposing LRA leader Joseph Kony, but engaging in stealth evangelism.

Invisible Children and The Family

Executive Summary

It is unlikely that many Americans who watched Invisible Children's record-smashing viral video hit KONY 2012 were aware of IC's evangelical nature (1, 2) or of the nonprofit's early financing from foundations that back the hard Christian right, including one of the biggest funders of the 2008 push for California's anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8.

But Invisible Children, which has branded itself as welcoming cultural, religious, and sexual diversity, also enjoys extensive institutional and social ties to the global evangelical network known as The Fellowship (also known as "The Family") - which has been credited with inspiring and providing "technical support" [see footnote 1] for Uganda's internationally-denounced Anti Homosexuality Bill, also dubbed the "kill the gays" bill.

[image, right: Invisible Children leader (since 2005) Jared White, during 2009 Africa cross-country motorcycle trip with Fellowship members John Niemeyer, Eric Kreutter, and Blake Gaskill]

The Fellowship is a secretive U.S.-based brotherhood of international political and business leaders. Founded in 1935, its growing political clout was brought to widespread public notice with a 2002 Los Angeles Times report by Lisa Getter, then exposed in subsequent articles and two books by journalist Jeff Sharlet: The Family and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy.

As stated by Fellowship member and Watergate felon Charles Colson, the group is a "veritable underground of Christ's men all through the U.S. government." The Fellowship sponsors an annual National Prayer Breakfast in the U.S. and in countries throughout the world and sponsors training for youth including in Africa, where media materials repeatedly describe mentoring of a "new breed" of African leaders.

Since the 1970s, the preeminent leader of the Fellowship has been Doug Coe, who has stated that Christians should be as dedicated as were the followers of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao. Coe has also advocated that Christians should organize "invisibly" like the mafia - as Coe claims, Jesus advised.

Mike Timmis, a Fellowship leader and former chairman of Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship and Prison Fellowship International, has heavily funded both the International Foundation of the Fellowship and its Uganda network. The first effort was a hospital built at the request of President Yoweri Museveni, who had taken control over the country in a coup in 1986.

The next project was Cornerstone Development, a network of projects initiated by Timmis' son Mike, who had been mentored by Fellowship leadership in Washington D.C., and two other young proselytes - John Riordan, who came to Uganda after being mentored at The Fellowship's Ivanwald house, and Tim Kreutter, who still leads the Cornerstone Development network.

[image, right: longtime Cornerstone Development instructor, mentor, and Fellowship member Paul Lukwiya, as featured on 2009 Invisible Children video]

The elder Timmis wrote, "The young leaders of Cornerstone Development saw that it would be much easier to form a new generation of African leaders than to persuade the present leaders to reform." Photos from the early days of the first Cornerstone school show both Yoweri Museveni and the Fellowship Doug Coe on location.

This new breed of leaders being mentored by The Fellowship is to bring peace, prosperity, and harmony to Africa and the world through obedience to their unique brand of faith, one in which those of all religions - Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu - worship Jesus together while maintaining their ethnic identity. In his writings Jeff Sharlet describes the family as embracing "biblical capitalism" or an allegiance to free enterprise as the foundation for all other freedoms.

Family teaching eschews divisive theological doctrine; Catholics, Protestants and non-Christians are urged to unite under what Sharlet describes as the twin pillars of American fundamentalism - the privatization of resources and the public regulation of morality. Sharlet describes the The Fellowship as having brought Museveni, formerly a "left-wing" dictator, to one of their Washington, D.C. houses, the Cedars, where Museveni was transformed into a believer and a "key [Family] man in Africa."

Both The Fellowship and Invisible Children have partnered closely with the government of Uganda which, under longtime president and Fellowship member Yoweri Museveni, stands accused of a wide array of human rights abuses [see footnote 2] and has helped produce evangelical propaganda demonizing, and blaming for their own suffering, Acholi victims of Joseph Kony's Lord's Reformation Army.

During the last decade, Fellowship members in the U.S. Congress helped turn Uganda's highly successful "ABC" HIV/AIDS reduction approach, which had promoted both abstinence, marital fidelity, and condom use, towards an approach that stressed fidelity and abstinence but not condoms. Uganda's HIV/AIDS rate reduction "miracle" subsequently reversed, so that the country is the only nation in East Africa with a rising HIV rate. Writing from one of Cornerstone Leadership Academy's graduates suggests that the "abstinence-only" approach is still favored by The Fellowship in Africa [see footnote 3].

[image, right: Paul Lukwiya, who sits on the Advisory Board of Restore Academy with Tim Kreutter, the Fellowship's longtime American on the ground in Uganda, is reported to have supervised the mentors in Invisible Children's educational program in Uganda]

At least two of Invisible Children's programs have involved collaboration with The Fellowship and and its members, and by 2007 -- according to accounts from both Invisible Children and Fellowship members -- Invisible Children had partially merged its developing school and mentoring programs in Uganda with The Fellowship's Ugandan educational and leadership training system, which works to raise up a cadre of elite Jesus-centered leaders who will transform their nation along "Biblical" lines - with one apparent objective being the categorical elimination of homosexuality.

Another Cornerstone/Fellowship activity in Uganda is sponsoring and organizing Uganda's yearly National Prayer Breakfast. At Uganda's 2010 National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast, Ugandan MP and Fellowship member Cecilia Ogwal delivered a prayer (footage of Ogwal, from event) in which she declared,

"We are binding the evil of homosexuality. We are binding all sorts of forces of evil, where the devil has taken an upper hand... and we are raising the banner of Christ!"

Like The Fellowship's educational approach in Uganda, Invisible Children's stated philosophy for its Ugandan educational programs is, rather than enable large numbers of children to get an education, to focus its available financial resources on a small, elite group who will emerge as national leaders.

While the humanitarian nature of The Fellowship's efforts is invariably stressed, individuals associated with the Fellowship (and with Invisible Children) are founding a fast-growing array of Uganda-based for-profit businesses, such as Apolis Global, that capitalize on The Fellowship's privileged, high-level international political networks.

Among the current and past Invisible Children leaders and employees with professional and social ties to Fellowship members are Jason Russell, Laren Poole, Ben Keesey, Ben Thomson, Adam Finck, James A. Pearson, and Jared White - who in late 2009 went on a cross-Africa motorcycle trip with three young Americans who are working to develop The Fellowship's programs in Uganda, including Eric Kreutter - son of Tim Kreutter, The Fellowship's longtime American leader on the ground in Uganda.

Kreutter oversees Cornerstone Development, the principal umbrella effort of The Fellowship in Uganda. A leading Cornerstone initiative is its educational programs. Head Cornerstone Education Director Paul Lukwiya has been reported to be overseeing Invisible Children's mentoring program in Uganda.

Ties between IC founders Jason Russell and Laren Poole, and alumni of The Fellowship's National Student Leadership Forum (NSLF), predate the founding of the Invisible Children nonprofit, tracing back as early as 2004.

The US-based National Student Leadership Forum's partner institution in Africa is the African Youth Leadership Forum (AYLF), co-organized by Ugandan Fellowship member MP David Bahati [see footnote 1]. The AYLF has sent members to the United States, to give presentations at NSLF forums and attend The Fellowship's Washington National Prayer Breakfast events.

Invisible Children's connection to The Fellowship's network provides an explanation of IC's early access [see footnote 2] to internationally powerful politicians; less than a year after the nonprofit was launched in 2005,Invisible Children had already gained political backing, from U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, both important Fellowship members.

[you can read the rest of the report, with full documentation on Invisible Children's ties to The Family here]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/05/1080853/-New-Report-Ties-Invisible-Children-To-The-Family-Extensively?detail=hide

Uganda be kidding me - Rachel Maddow show - NBC News

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The Secret Political Reach Of 'The Family' : NPR

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=120746516

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Hillary, 'The Family' And Uganda's Anti-Gay Christian Mafia

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Protecting the Human Rights of LGBT People in Uganda in the Wake ...

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Uganda's anti-gay legislation, explained - Vox

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Gay Rights as an International Human Rights Norm - USC Dornsife

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