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Addressing Homophobic Rhetoric, and Not Just the Anti-Gay Initiatives in Africa

Sarah Posner.

Warren condemns the punishment but not inflammatory rhetoric.

Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right

Michelle Goldberg.

A proposed measure in Uganda would make repeated homosexual activity punishable by death. Anti-gay activists in the United States may think that it goes too far, but they laid the groundwork for it.

Rick Warren and Homophobia in Africa

Sarah Posner.

Controversial Ugandan pastor doesn't understand why ties were severed.

The Anti-Gay Highway: New Report Details Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy

Kathryn Joyce.

A new report documents the trend of evangelicals like Rick Warren exporting sexuality issues to Africa, whose clergy, in turn, support the minority antigay view in mainline denominations, weakening them. The author of the report speaks with RD at length about what he found. 

Homophobic Uganda a “Purpose-Driven Nation”?

Nick Street.

An experiment in right-wing Christian social thought, Uganda is poised to pass anti-gay legislation. Will the US Senate leverage its weight in opposition?

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

Michelle Goldberg.

Why have homosexuality and gender-bending displaced Jews and anti-Semitism as the bogeymen of fundamentalists across the globe?