Move over, Porno Pete. Homo-hating, gay porn aficionados around the globe have a new reigning diva. Martin Ssempa is his name and, apparently, scatological fixation is his game.
The poo-obsessed Ugandan pastor first graced this blog back in connection with pop-pastor Rick Warren’s duplicitous claims about his involvement with AIDS in Uganda — specifically Ssempa likes to burn condoms in the name of Jesus Christ and, according to author and journalist Michelle Goldberg, offers faith-healing to disease-stricken congregants.
The high-priest of gay-porn, it seems, will have none of anything that smacks of the gay and Ssempa wants all the world, including children, to get a close-up and personal look at what two dudes might or might not do in the sack. For Ssempa, dehumanizing gay people by reducing them to their sex organs and/or acts is not beyond the pale, because the pastor is dementedly convinced that he’s doing the Lord’s work.
Ariel Rubin, writing at The Huffington Post, reports on the genocidal porn-freak’s press conference staged to tout his march in support of Uganda’s draconian exterminate-the-gays bill:
Scat Porn and Prayer? Welcome To Sssempa World
“I will not call them gays any more, these are sodomites. And I ask you please, in the media, stop misusing the word gay, which means happy people. These are not happy people.”
It’s when the pastor starts showing the photos of men covered in feces fisting each other, that you realize this is no ordinary press conference. On January 15th, addressing a crowded room of local and foreign journalists, controversial “pro family” pastor Martin Ssempa , sitting beside a solemn-looking Muslim Sheikh in front of posters saying “Barack Obama Back Off” and “Africans Unite Against Sodomy”, begins his lengthy invective.
Ssempa called the conference to announce his plan to mobilize more than one million people to march on February 17th in Kampala to show the world just how strong support is for the proposed ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’. “We want to give a postcard that he [President Museveni] can send to his friend Barack Obama,” he says. However Ssempa, clearly relishing the media’s spotlight, takes the opportunity to begin a lengthy digression on his deep-seated feelings about homosexuality, pedophilia and the “broken” West’s decadent influence. Most of what he says might be laughable if his influence wasn’t so far-reaching and the message so deeply offensive. As he repeatedly boasts, 95% of Ugandans are against homosexuality, “this is democracy at work.”
A highly charismatic and flamboyant man, Ssempa seems less to speak than to gesticulate wildly, gleefully exhorting the audience of the ills implicit in homosexuality. At one point, he even dramatically decides to break for prayer, calling on the god “who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah” to communicate to the media that Uganda will not perish in the same way. “God you know this bill has to pass,” he prays with his eyes towards the heavens. “In Jesus’ name, amen.” Most of the journalists in the room, whether by force of habit or true faith, instantly mumble back, “amen.”
Never one to exhibit polite restraint, Porno Ssempa continues “enthusiastically:”
I want to say homosexuals eat each other’s poop. Homosexuals stick their hands into their rectum. Homosexuals stick all sorts of deviant sexual things into their rectum. I want to show you this is from their website. So the first picture that I want to show you, you can see this man has just eaten the other person’s poo poo and is rubbing it on his mouth, and I’m going to ask that we print for each of you a photocopy of this story so you get it fully.
Then, of course, they are grabbing each other’s gentials, that is level number one, touching each other, grabbing each other. Then number three, now they are licking eachother’s anus and are licking poop. And they call poo poo, chocolate. You see it is a change of words. I want you to see, Sheikh please forgive me but I want these people to see, they say a picture is worth one thousand words. This is a man eating the other person’s poo poo, can you see that one? Please from BBC, I want you to tell them, we know what they do.
Not content to limit sharing his porn collection with the media, Ssempa is apparently dragging his little dog and pony into Ugandan churches and claiming, “In Africa, what you do in your bedroom affects our clan, it affects our tribe, it affects our nation.”
Daniel Howden and Barbara Among, writing for The Independent, provide this update:
The pastor using pornography to fan the flames of gay hate in Uganda
The government wants to cool the debate on homosexuality. But influential clergyman Martin Ssempa has other ideasThe congregation was bigger than normal this week at the Christianity Focus Centre in Kampala. Perhaps numbers had been swelled by the prospect of an unusual kind of show-and-tell fast becoming the mainstay of the Martin Ssempa roadshow.
Uganda’s “passionate pastor”, as he calls himself, had revelations to share with the 200 or so men, women and children who turned up on Wednesday. His ambition to mark the week with a “million-man march” in support of a parliamentary Bill to further criminalise homosexuality had fallen flat over security concerns. But he had a sideshow quite capable of causing a stir in itself.
“The major argument homosexuals have is that what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is nobody’s business,” the squat, shaven-headed preacher said. “But do you know what they do in their bedrooms?”
For the next half an hour or so, he answered his own question with a highly unusual visual aid: a series of black and white photographs from what appeared to be the 1960s fetish scene. The avid Michael Jackson fan, who has impersonated the late star on Ugandan television, flicked through the slides of men engaging in scatological fetishism, giving his horrified commentary. “This one is eating another man’s anus,” he said, while the crowd by turns gasped, sobbed and fell to the floor.
The writers note that Porno Ssempa has a history of passionately seeking as much media attention as possible:
So Ssempa’s stunts are not without their audience. But gays and lesbians should not feel unduly picked on. He also preaches against Islam, feminism, Catholics and Satanists, who, he says, hold meetings under Lake Victoria, where they are promised riches in exchange for human blood, which they collect by staging car accidents. For most people, that would be outlandish; for Martin Ssempa, it is barely out of the ordinary.
Let’s hope the US State Department and Homeland Security are adding this shameless purveyor of pornography for consumption by minors to their no-fly list.
