For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior. (Emphasis mine)
Rick Warren and others are suddenly disowning the monster they created in the heart of Africa: We only taught them to hate Teh Gay, we never imagined they would take us seriously. This is the place where Pastor Muthee leads the occasional witch-burning lynch mob — there’s no way they could have seen this blowback coming at all. They just didn’t understand us, we wanted them to hate gays but not kill them.
Not one of these fine, upstanding Christian gents will actually admit their words had consequences. They are all passive agents in this travesty: “mistakes were made.”
