Hillary, ‘The Family,’ and Uganda’s Anti-Gay Christian Mafia

[DonViejo]

The evangelical organization that describes itself as a Christian mafia has been the hidden hand behind Uganda’s anti-gay bill, along with Rick Warren, the gay-bashing pastor who presided at Obama’s first inauguration.

The President of Uganda has just signed into law extreme anti-gay legislation. In addition to imprisoning anyone who counsels or reaches out to the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender community in Uganda, the law establishes a crime of “aggravated homosexuality” which include acts where one person is infected with HIV, “serial offenders,” and sex with minors. “Aggravated homosexuality” is punished with life in prison. A previous version of the law, amended after worldwide protests, proscribed the death penalty.

The legislation was written and promoted by David Bahati, a member of the Ugandan Parliament. According to scholar and writer Jeff Sharlet, Bahati—who has said he wants to “kill every last gay person”— is a core member of a secretive network of American evangelical Christians called “The Family.” The Family sees its aggressive, worldwide evangelism embodied in the saying, “Jesus didn’t come to take sides; he came to take over.” The organization has also referred to itself—proudly—as “the Christian Mafia.” For over 75 years, its goal has been the “consecration” of America to God. But facing defeat in the American culture wars, The Family and its ilk looked elsewhere—including to Uganda.

The Family organizes the National Prayer Breakfast in the U.S. Bahati organized the Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast—as well as overseeing a student leadership program in Uganda to which The Family has contributed millions of dollars. According to documents about The Family’s work in Africa, the organization’s strategy is “a Congressman and/or Senator from the United States will befriend the leader of another country and tell him/her how Jesus and His teachings will help his country and its poor … and to teach them how to live, what to think and what to say.” Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is The Family’s missionary in Uganda.

Sen. Inhofe has traveled to Africa at least 20 times since 1999, at a cost of at least $187,000 to taxpayers (not including the cost of military aircraft) for what the Senator described as “a Jesus thing.” In Uganda, Inhofe attended Bahati’s Ugandan prayer breakfasts and invited Bahati to the United States three times. Inhofe, who once boasted of being “proud” that there was not a single gay relationship in the “recorded history of our family,” also boasted that he “adopted” Uganda. And yet Sen. Inhofe has denied knowing Bahati and, eventually, reluctantly, condemned the country’s anti-gay law.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/25/obama-the-family-and-uganda-s-anti-gay-christian-mafia.html

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[DURHAM D]

2. That is funny.

The link is to obama the family and uganda but thebeast screwed up the headline.

[NYC_SKP]

3. "Hillary Clinton has been active with Family prayer groups since she was First Lady."

The url says Obama, but the article headline matches the OP subject line.

I thought the pic they uses was interesting.

[DURHAM D]

4. Actually the article has almost nothing about Hillary

and it has just a little more about Obama and Rick Warren. Regardless, the snark about them was off point and they should have stuck with The Family current members. Obviously the writer has an agenda and he stepped on his own story trying to get a Democrat trashing headline out of it.

I saw that picture yesterday. Yes it is interesting.

[Sunlei]

5. here, here re "D trashing headline". wish the media would report exactly the religious group..

where the Uganda religious gay-hate "Leaders" - were trained to hate - in America.

Instead, all this kind of 'media' will do is pile on Mrs. Clinton as much crap and trash as they can.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. "The Family" hosts the Presidents Prayer Breakfast, and owns "Frathouse for Jesus" on C Street in DC

And Clinton is in real tight with that bunch. Scary!

[Sunlei]

8. so if "The Family" admits they trained the Uganda gay hate priests in the USA?

You think those 'prayer meetings' would continue?

[Bluenorthwest]

7. But, but, it's just one little prayer!!!!!

Will the poutrage not end until you all get a fabulous pink pony?

Both things were said to LGBT DUers who objected to Rick Warren. 'He's America's Minister' was another.