Maddow and a panel discuss the Ugandan anti-gay bill and the American cons using their influence abroad to back the extermination and imprisonment of gay and lesbian people (video: The Rachel Maddow Show)
Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow capped a week of eye-opening reports on the connections between American fundamentalist hate-preachers, the so-called ex-gay movement and elected Republican and Democratic officials and the drive, in Uganda, to pass a draconian law that would criminalize being gay and inflict the death penalty in a number of circumstances — including having gay sex or touching with intent to commit homosexuality while HIV-postive.
Maddow notes the connection between these holy-rolling conservative politicians, the cult known as The Family and the until-recently tax-exempt house it owns on C Street in Washington DC, which has figured prominently in every political sex scandal in 2009 and which is where many of these christianist politicos just happen to reside.
The segment’s highlight was a panel discussion with guests Nicholas Kristof, writer for the New York Times, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton University professor, and New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Uganda be kidding me in review:
- Wednesday: Maddow: The Uganda-US fundie connection
- Thursday: Maddow: Uganda be kidding me
- Friday: Ugandan genocide? Fine with the right!
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