Uganda be kidding me (video: The Rachel Maddow Show)
[ updated: see below ]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow continues to hammer away at the gay-hating American fundamentalists involved in pushing the bill in Uganda that would criminalize being gay and provide the death penalty to people with AIDS and repeat offenders. Regular readers will recall this post and video from yesterday, in which Maddow connects pop-pastor and Obama Invocation deliverer Rick Warren of Saddlback Church and the kooky Christian conservatives in the cult known as The Family.
In the video above, Rachel Maddow identifies the three American fundamentalists who traveled to Uganda intent on stirring up hatred and violence against the African nation’s gays and lesbians. Back in March, I cited research by the Southern Poverty Law Center on the individuals named:
Scott Lively, co-founder of the hate group Watchmen on the Walls and author of The Pink Swastika, a pseudo-history book claiming that “militant male homosexuals” helped mastermind the holocaust.
Caleb Lee Brundidge, a “sexual reorientation coach” for the International Healing Foundation, whose signature technique, as demonstrated on CNN, involves patients “beating on chairs with tennis rackets and screaming, “Mom, Mom, why did you do this to me?” Brundidge also counsels men struggling with their sexuality to visit mortuaries with a fringe Charismatic ministry team to “practice raising the dead.”
Don Schmierer, a board member for Exodus International, an international umbrella group covering hundreds of “ex-gay” ministries. Schmierer warns parents in his guide to preventing homosexuality to watch out for boys who show “extreme macho behavior” are “frail, deformed, deaf” or “avoid fights/physical altercations.”
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I’ve been informed that one of San Diego’s hotbeds of homophobia, the Rev Jim Garlow’s Skyline Wesleyan Church, will be hosting a training event for Exodus International, the very same organization that stirred up enough anti-gay sentiment in Uganda to provoke this heinous law that could well result in the imprisonment and execution of gay and lesbian Ugandans. Details:
Exodus Equipping Event
When: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
Where: James Garlow’s Skyline Church
Address: 11330 Campo Road, La Mesa, CA 91941
Who: Exodus International
Exodus International hosts several training events all over the nation for pastors, ministry leaders, counselors, seminary students, and those within the body who desire to be better equipped in ministering to individuals struggling with and affected by homosexuality.
Contact Info: 1-888-264-0877
These hate-mongers deserve a nice warm San Diego style welcome. Stay tuned for details.
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UPDATE (3 December 4:11pm):
A number of people have requested additional information on any upcoming action having to do with the Exodus International Equipping Event at Garlow’s Skyline Church in La Mesa. Please leave a message with your email address by Clicking here. Some of the leading stars of the so-called ex-gay movement are scheduled to attend.
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