This is disgusting! This is the second time today I have heard of this happening. Exodus and Defend the Family International are the ones who should be put to death - not the people that run the groups - I don't advocate that - but the groups themselves.

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This is something Congress needs to be aware of & of how we feel about it. These organizations have their roots in the US and we can impose sanctions and fines against them for supporting what amounts to sexual terrorism. Further, if their direct support of these policies can be proven we may be able to bring criminal charges against the leaders of Exodus and their co-conspirators. How can we get a petition started?

As a pro choice thinker that tries to take in all facts before making a decision, i think this story is not telling the whole truth.  I personally do not know the whole truth so I will not make such claims.  However there is something that must be taken into consideration.  In Africa HIV/AIDS has pretty much decimated the population.  It is a war that (last I checked) they are losing, or maybe barely beginning to win.

So the real question is this: does Uganda want to be a contending player in the future of humanity?  Or do they want to be a dwindling country that fought to protect the "rights" of a bunch of people that act out on animalistic impulses whilst destroying their country?  If the former is more desirable then some radical action will have to be made.

Now before anyone starts getting all pissy of that last paragraph let me mention this.  People say, "it's natural" or "we are born this way", well that is a total bullshit argument and I will tell you why.  We are also born with the innate desire to dominate, to kill, and fight, does this mean we should be allowed to murder our neighbors just because we don't like them?  What I am getting at is the "we are born this way" argument does not fly.

Now I am not saying killing people is the answer but simply letting people do what they want to do is a step in the wrong direction.  

I will leave on this note, the treatment of the AIDS factor should also be handled the same regardless sexual orientation.

What natural resources does Uganda have that the United States is interested in....????

Religion and Politics make for strange bedfellows.......

They are usually one and the same..

Colonialism and past bad deeds of exploiting Africans is the root cause of this hate campaign.

I believe in God, just not the ONE the Christian Evangelical-Haters are promoting..

Shame on them ALL......

These ex gay ministries do more harm than good to people.I hope these lies about us stop.

The US Religious Right needs a new gullible nonwhite culture, one that will take its hate-filled barbarism as "modern-day enlightenment," as its colony to spread its hate.

For the past 120 years, Korea worked very well in that regard. Unfortunately for the US Religious Right, modern-day South Korea is a very sophisticated society with highly educated professionals, and those said professionals, when they were being educated in the West, picked up Western liberal "moonbat" ideas like right to a pursuit of happiness as well as minority rights. While South Korea remains 30% Christian, most of that Protestant tradition rising out of the US Bible Belt, there no longer is much of a lovefest for the US Religious Right outside the church leaderships and the current Lee Myung-bak (a far-right Presbyterian himself) administration.

I was based out of Seoul a year ago at this time, so I know how much the people have moved forward. When discussing US politics, they knew that LGBT rights were a huge issue in US elections, and they also knew that passing the likes of California's Prop 8 was dead wrong for America. I also valued a more traditional Asian approach to religion, which often means that as different religions compete fiercely for believers, most people take ideas from those different religions and formulate their own spiritual realm. Religious coexistence has always been a given in Asian societies (not necessarily peaceful, but still a given) - at least until American evangelical Christianity started destroying that in South Korea.

Unfortunately, the Korean immigrants stateside are a different story; they voted for Prop 8 in droves and are pretty much a monolithic Religious Right bloc. They blame the changes in South Korea on North Korean Communist plots to corrupt the society. But they came to the US in a different era, when South Korea was a loyal puppet of the American far right and had the world's fast-growing Christian movement - the very days that the US Religious Right misses.

The US Religious Right does need a new colony right away, and that's no joke.

America. Spreading freedom butter on the toasty buns of the earth.

It's terrible that intolerant conservatives organizations have a hold in Uganda in their attempt to strip the rights of LGBT people and destroy the LGBT rights movement in Uganda. However, Uganda must condemn the intolerance of the oppressive bill and the intolerant organizations. A very good way to take away the terrible influence of those organizations is to evoke more nationalism in Uganda in saying that organizations such as Exodus International want to take over.

Michael.  Can you please present the sites where you pulled the information for your story?  I think that would be helpful for our audience. 

Per the questions debated above.  I think there are two questions to deal with... prior to the biological issues... though I do agree that there are possible biological ties.  The first questions that would need to be dealt with are:

1. Is the Bible the true written word of God?  Is it truth?  If you answer yes, then you can use it as a source.  If you answer no, then you cannot as it is not credible. At that point, you move to relativism, not Christianity.

2. Who was Jesus Christ and was he who he claimed to be? Was he speaking truth? If you answer God, the Messiah, then you can use Him as a source and validate his teachings through the Bible and this also validates the Old Testement as He was a firm believer in God Yaweh and was Jewish.  Reaffirming the validity of the Old Testement along with the New.

3. If one does not believe one and two to be truths, where do they go to their source for being called a Christian (A follower of Christ)?  If one was to follow Christ, he/she would then want to seek out how to Love God and Love Others...

4.  Sin could be stated as the opposite of Loving God and Loving others...  Remember first was to Love the Lord your God with all of your heart...  second was to love your neighbor as yourself.  The question I ask myself is what does God say about homosexuality?  The source would be the Bible based upon how I answered the questions above, and if not the Bible then it becomes relative and there is no Truth.  

5.  If you are a Christian, assuming that you care about 1-4, the next question would be how do you deal with sin?  There is no place in the Bible that says you should kill sinners... It will not be found.  Even if a Christian thinks that homosexuality is a sin, there is nothing backing this.  In fact, the call would be to love the sinner.

5.  Finally, assuming that the article above is credible and not biased.  I see issues regardles of who the people are.  Let's be real and deal with the issue and not attack the believed cause.  Let's deal with looking at what we believe to be sin...  If people are being killed because they have AIDs and are homosexual, does it matter if homosexuals are killing them or straights, catholic or protestant, muslim or jews?  I don't think that changes the fact that the killing is wrong?  I would ask why are these people being killed?  for what were they charged?  and where does the logic come from to kill? I think it is a great question to pondor of whether America has made 3rd world countries a better place or a worse place? 

My question for the gentleman above is that if homosexuality was found to be a sin, how should it be dealt with, what does the Bible say about that?  I hear his logic on the serial killer and that could be used to support alcoholism (which it is) using illegal drugs (which it is) depression (which it is) lying (which it is) killing (which it is) lust (which it is)slavery (which it is) child sex trafficing (which it is)....  What is truth?

Is it all relative....   If there is truth, how do we deal with it.... 

You tell me blog... 

I am a straight Christian and this story saddens me...  Not because I am seeking gay rights or anyones rights... but because I seek for truth and justice...  Depending on the total truth of this post, which the writer needs to cite, I would be disapointed to hear that Christians were acting in such a way as asking to kill people for their sins.  The fact that people choose to live with and in their denial of their sin, is usually a large enough load to bear.  Whether homosexuality is a sin or not, is not my call, but I can say  that it is clear that killing someone for a sin is not biblical truth... 

I am glad I do not struggle with that battle.

Like I always said, do what you feel is right. If you feel that homosexuality is wrong then don't do it, if you don't feel that it's wrong then do it. No one should be forced to do something because an organization says so... in Christianity, free will is suppose to be the key.  How can we make some of these religious organizations see this? It's like they totally skip over certain verses?

This story isn't biased at all...

Right.

As an evangelical myself, I do take offense to this as these people are part of my denomination. I think you take the idea of 'getting rid of gays' too seriously. Its either a misunderstanding or a little church gone wrong. As evangelicals, we believe that accepting anyone in their state is welcome with God. We love all people and welcome them into God's church. 

will what do you know a christain religion killing people for their lifestyle, they have to kill someone or their religion wouldnt be right, they have to judge and criticize because their god told them not to. everybody has to get a turn to be picked on, you know this is where bulling comes from.

Oh, my god. This makes me think back to high school when I heard my classmates talk about shooting intersexed/trans people, running gay people out of town, and kicking gay people for complaining about verbal abuse. And it makes me want to go back in time and stand up to all of those people and ask them if they seriously wanted to kick me. I doubt they did, but this issue of Evangelicals helping kill gay people in places where violence is a much greater possibility just shows that expressing these sentiments even half-seriously is too much.

1Corinthians13:4-7 "Charity(Love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5:Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own. is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6:Rejoiceth not in inquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;" 7:"Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things"  Verse13:And now abideth faith, hope, charity(Love), these three; but the greatest of these is charity."  Thank you, Carol Baldwin, California

Christians say homosexuality is a curse on humanity, imo christians are the curse on humanity. For the entirety of their existence, they pretend to preach about tolerance and love but they still condone prejudice, murder, and the oppression of science.

I'm not gay but I fully support gay people.

Wow, This is one of the most disturbing things I have read in a while. Have Amnesty International been notified and chapters of other groups particularly working in the United States on Human Rights? The religious leaders of some of the main church denominations in America should contact the leaders of the groups that went to Uganda to support this.  Churches need to recognize this is a human rights issue and working with a country whose policies may condemn many to death needs to be stronly condemned by the churches of America.

I came from an Evangelical Pentecostal background; my mother was 'born again'. Alas, her adherence to irrational belief systems re: 'divine helaing' encouraged her to stop taking her insulin, and she died at the age of 44... as a direct result of being 'born again'.T he irony is too bitter for me to comment further, but clearly I know first-hand how much fear and bewilderment underpins the dogma and beliefs of Evangelism (or is that Evangelicalism). The 'Christian' posters on this thread all presuppose that 'homosexuality' is simply and entirely about the sex itself (and they're an unimaginative lot, all they can think about is, let's be frank, anal sex, although studies in Europe have suggested that this is a) a minority activity and b) favored by slightly greater numbers of heterosexuals than homosexuals). The reason we as a population chose the word 'gay' for ourselves - men AND women (again, Evangelicals seem mostly disturbed by gay men, not lesbians)- is that 'gay' has had the sense of 'sexually unconventional' since at least the seventeenth century. And it is a non-clinical word. 'Homosexual', a rather illiterate neologism combining the Greek 'homos', meaning 'the same' -and pronounced with a short 'o'; it's amazing how many Americans mispronounce it -and the Latin 'sexus', was coined around 1869 by a German psychologist, and is an entirely invented, made-up category. What Evangelicals fail to grasp is that for gay people, it is our primary emotional, romantic, loving focuses that are directed to, and drawn to, members of our own sex. My partner and I, happily now married (in Europe, which is streets ahead of the US), have been a loyal, faithful, devoted and monogamous couple for 21+ years. We in fact are the 'marital champions' in his family, and my partner's brother put it. My husband and I work and live together 24/7, walk our dogs, send birhday gifts to our godson, enjoy family get-togethers with his in-laws, worry about paying the household bills, keeping a roof over our head, and being there to support and love each other when times are tough. It is also true to say that we fell in love at first sight, and that we love each other more and more with each passing day, every accumulating year. That the depth of our devotion for one another is reduced by the Religious Right to a matter of 'sin' (for which you should read 'sex') demonstrates the paucity and callowness of Evangelical Christians' fear-based thinking (I use the word advisedly). Whatever I do -or don't - in bed with my husband is nobody's business but mine; although I would add that like most long-married couples, sex plays a very very small part in our married lives. I live with the man who is my best friend, my companion, my beloved. And I would give my life for him in an instant. I don't have to tell you what Jesus C. would say about that, he was pretty clear about what the 'greater love' entails, but it's of no matter to me; I walked away from Christianity a long time ago, so appalled was I by the antics of Christians, who might do well to take a leaf from Alcoholics Anonymous's traditions, and base their public-relations on "attraction, rather than promotion". The Christians' problem is that fewer and fewer people want what they have - most Christians are dreadful advertisements for their faith. Again, I grew up surroundedby them, I know whereof I speak. Meanwhile I look into my husband's eyes, I know I am loved, assure him that I, too, reciprocate his love, and we continue to try in our modest way to offer some of that love to those we encounter in our day-to-day walk through this demanding life of ours.

What is this need of fundamentalist Xtians trying to ram their religion down people's throats? This is the problem with fundamentalists of all stripes: they are not happy just to believe and live according to their convictions. They want to push their views on everyone else.

Ms Manthey, the people responsible for this atrocity in Uganda ARE Evangelicals. And yes, Evangelicals love someone gay as long as they are willing to admit that homosexuality is a sin and live a life of which the Evangelicals approve. This means a life of celibacy, with no hope of a life partner or spouse. YOU don't live the life of LGBTQ people which in this country is bad enough with all the fundie carping and efforts to deny us basic freedoms, like the freedom to marry.

Not satisfied with this, creeps like Lively and other Exodus have gone to Uganda and persuaded their government to pass draconian laws against LGBTQ Ugandans. Mr. Lively blames the Holocaust on gays--that's a new spin on Holocaust Denial, I must say. The Nazis didn't perpetrate the  Holocaust, LGBTQ people did. What twaddle!

Iain, I am so sorry about your mum. Xtianity has done damage to millions and still does damage even as I write this. I am so glad that you have a loving husband with whom you can share your life. My hersband is the love and the light of my life and I am so happy to have found her.

The people that perpetrated this mess are beneath contempt. Having done this in Uganda, how many more nations are they going to be allowed to infect with their hate.

Ms. Manthey and other Christians that post on the GLBTQ boards here, it is Christianity as interpreted by fundamentalists who hate and fear homosexuality. Their fear and hate are the plagues, not LGBTQ people. Oh and if telling the truth of what fundie homohaters are up to is biased, then so be it.

As Miss Manners once wrote:

"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."

Too bad those who believe they do also feel obligated to export their hatred to countries where they feel more welcome.  Appalling.

According to what I read about Matthew Shepard he was as kind a person as you could hope to meet and then to be killed by hateful people like that is appalling.

What I find so interesting, is the terminology fundamentalist Christians use--"fighting homosexuality" and "cultural wars." These are terms of aggression and violence. It is clear that queer people all over the world suffer this. It is time we queer folk rise up to this hateful tone and language. We live in a free country and it is time that we tolerate this no more. The Christian colonalism of Africa continues to be despicable. It is heinous to take this fearful, hateful message in the name of Jesus' love to the Motherland.

A note on language, you might consider using the word "extremist" to identify these kinds of groups. "Fundamentalist" and "evangelical" are *not* the same as "extremist". Talk to some of the evangelical Christians who work with the Interfaith Youth Core (www.ifyc.org) to promote social justice, and you'll get a better idea of the wide variety of types that tend to get lumped under the umbrella of "evangelical" along with the extremists.

Anyone who believes the Bible is the inerrant word of God is against Gays. In the U.S.A. it matters not what the Bible says. We have laws that say "Christians" have no right to force their belief or any biblical laws from it on anyone. The religious "REICH" needs to shut up and clean it's own closets !

Thank you Thomas & Jenifer. Yes, it is surprising how little these church going "christians" actually know about the book they supposedly believe should direct and guide the whole world. I guess if they had been abused all through school and condemned by their friends, family & church, maybe they would have cared enough to search for the truth, as we have. Funny isn't it, that Jesus said search for the truth, and yet we, the condemned, are the only ones who seem to be actually looking for it. It's not a problem for the hetrosexuals, so they really don't care what the truth is, just as long as it doesn't upset their fragile world and put a wrench in their cog. The audicity that the last governing party in this country thought they should be able to dictate our morals and values (when they themselves obviously had none) is proof to just how radicles can get a foot-hold and overtake even a country built on religious freedom and equality, such as our own. I live near Greenville, SC and near here there was a boy who was Gay, he left an establishment in the city of Greenville (which by the way claims to be SO christian) and was attacked and killed for being Gay. It was a hate crime, plain and simple. Well it's been three years now since his death, and his MURDERER is already free and walking the streets. The boy who was killed was Sean Kennedy. I met his Mother in Church, her life and the lives of Sean's family and friends will never be the same. They have not even had a chance to finish grieving and his murderer is on the street, they could walk past him on their way to the grocery store, can you imagine ? Recently she was invited to the White House in Washington, DC . I believe Matthew Shepherd's Mother was also there, Matthew (for those of you who don't know) was the boy who was tortured and murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. Left hanging on a barbered wire fence to die, only to be found by a child later on. There has since been a TV movie (or documentary) about it. As to date, as far as I know, there are no laws against hate crimes against homosexuals in the state of South Carolina. So when you're looking for a place to start your businesses and spend your money,(Myrtle Beach for instance) be sure not to do it in this state, because they do not believe that our lives are worth anything. Spread the word as well, Gay people contribute a lot to our economy, so why should they contribute to a state and a people who value us so little and who hold protests on the street corners here that we are going to burn in hell for our horriable sinful state of being. They would like us to shut up and pretend we are not here. Well we've seen what that has acomplished over the years, for the blacks as well. Only when we stand up, stand out and be counted for who we are, will it make a difference. If they only knew how many of their Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Presidents, and first and foremost PASTORS are as Gay as any of us. I long for the day when they realize just who they have been condemning. I want to live to see the look on their faces when they are enlightened to the fact that their husbands and boyfriends have been sneaking around on the side with their fishing and hunting buddies having so much homosexual sex it would spin their closed minded heads in circles. Yes, when they meet their maker, whoever or whatever it is, I think they're in for a BIG surprise.  As Dennis Miller used to say at the end of his show "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong".

Great points, Stephen. I always find it interesting that some heterosexuals cannot understand GLBTQ disgust and anger. Gee, maybe it is because the dominant culture tends to treat us like shit or ignore us completely. They really are clueless.

I always said that if people knew who was gay in history (especially Church history), they would be shocked. We are everywhere the straights are. I too look forward to the day when it becomes clear just who they have looked down on an persecuted all these centuries. Families, clergy, lawyers, military personnel, medical professionals. And yes, it is always fun to see these people find out how much homosexual sex is out there, even (and maybe even especially) amongst supposedly straight-as-string men. It's such a laugh.

I no longer care who gets pissed if they see me holding hands with my spouse or if we are looking at a few things for our vow renewal and I kiss her cheek and hug her. Fuck these people! I am no longer willing to be in the closet to keep their little homophobic comfort zone intact. Compared to the disgusting PDAs I am subjected to from straights on a regular basis, handholding, a brief hug or a kiss on the cheek is pretty tame! They're always carrying on about "the children" and how we can't control ourselves. When I see a straight couple just about having sex in an aisle at Wal-Mart, I just laugh at the hypocrisy of it all.

It has consistently been the homophobic fundamentalists who have persecuted, beaten and killed us. And yet, now that there is a national hate law, they have the unmitigated GALL to say that the "noose is around Christian's necks". If they think that they should be able to persecute, beat, fire, evict, and kill GLBTQ people with impunity, then yes, the noose is around their necks. They WILL be called to account for these vile acts against their fellow human beings. There is no law against believing the 2000BC nonsense that is monotheistic religion, but damn straight there is now a law against putting the more hateful of their beliefs into action.

You are correct, Stephen, believers in the Bible (or any other "holy book" for that matter) do not have the right to shove their bigoted rights down anyone's throats. And how rich it is that whilst they are condemning us, their own private sins are, sooner or later, revealed. John Paulk is a lovely example-such a Christian, married, "family man" and then, when away from home, at a "pro-family" (read: virulently anti-gay) conference, he gets caught out at a gay bar by gay activists. So what does he do? Tell people he was just in the bar to use the men's room--supposedly he had no idea it was a gay bar--BS HE DIDN'T. Fortunately it backfired on him. Of course, he is still with his supposedly ex-lesbian wife, now in the Pacific Northwest, probably still sneaking out to gay venues.

And then there are those "ex-gays" who obsess on every little thing about gay men (think Peter Labarbera and AFTAH), usually the most graphic, down-and-dirty crap they can dream up. Many are like this and all I would like to know is: I don't obsess on straight sex because I am a lesbian. Why are YOU (who are supposedly heterosexual now, obsessing on what gay men do sexually? Methinks these lads do protest too much.

 Jennifer, you are so right that they can "prove" a basis for their bigotry in the Bible, but then that book has been used to support almost anything and everything--slavery, oppression of women, hatred of neighbouring countries...I think that Jesus made his opinion abundantly clear that it was INHOSPITALITY rather than man-on-man sex was the reason Sodom and Gomorrah were wiped off the face of the earth. (BTW does anyone else think it was sick that Lot offered his virgin daughter to be gang-raped?).

I hope I live long enough to see these hypocrites get their comeuppance. One thing I know is that LGBTQ people are on the way up and nothing and no one should be allowed to impede our progress.

SO, fundie hypocritical bigots, believe what you want about us--hell, you're even free to say what you believe,  but get in our way or try to do what you have been doing to us all along and there WILL be legal consequences. Deal with it.

THANKSGIVING ! I AM SO THANKFUL FOR THIS NEWS ARTICLE THAT I JUST READ...

South Carolina Pride Movement Bulletin Posted by Ryan C. Wilson

Greetings Friends of SC Pride Movement,

Today we celebrate a momentous moment in our nation's history and in the movement toward LGBT equality. Today we are PROUD to celebrate that President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law — the first federal law in our nation’s history that specifically protects the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community!

After over 10 years of fighting for this critical protection, we finally have a hate crime law that includes sexual orientation and gender identity. These crimes will now be Federal offenses and Federal resources can be used in investigating and punishing crimes committed against our community. Here in South Carolina where we have no Hate Crime laws on the state level, this law gives us much needed protections!

This victory couldn't have been possible without the efforts of people like you who called Washington year after year, demanding that this bill be passed. The members of the SC Pride Movement should take PRIDE in today's victory! [And don't forget to renew your membership on-line at www.scpride.org before next month's membership meeting.]

Personally, I'm proud of our Board members who fought alongside other LGBT organizations in the state of South Carolina and worked particularly closely with Elke Kennedy and the dedicated folks at Sean's Last Wish to lobby our legislators to vote for this bill. While some of our elected Representatives voted in favor of this bill, we also know that shamefully many of them did not.

We challenge those officials who represent South Carolina's citizens to remember that they should support ALL their citizens, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability/disability, class, or creed. Homophobia by those officials who represent us will not be tolerated, just as now crimes motivated by homophobia will no longer be tolerated.

Sean Kennedy's tragic death in 2007 at the hands of someone who called him a fag can not be undone, but perhaps now that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is the law of the land, future crimes may be prevented knowing that the government and law enforcement will not tolerate hate based crimes.

It is also worth noting that with the inclusion of Gender Identity in this bill, it becomes the 1st ever Pro-Transgender law passed on the Federal level. SC Pride Movement is proud to have fought as part of the original United ENDA coalition and will continue to fight for Trans-inclusive laws. We celebrate today's victory with our Trans, brothers & sisters.

Today, I personally am PROUD to be an American, and I hope those of you who read this message will also take pride in our country, knowing that the tides of oppressions are turning and slowly the winds of justice and equality are moving in our direction.

The time is now to pass an inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act, repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, and ensure that health care, economic policy and immigration reform incorporate the needs of LGBT people. Our movement has more work to do!


Ryan C. Wilson
President, SC Pride Movement
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There is a movement afoot to pressure Rick Warren to denounce the anti-gay bill now in the Ugandan legislature... check this out at http://www.publiceye.org/index.php

U.S. Rightwing Evangelicals Stoke Antigay Hatred in Africa

Political Research Associates is calling on Pastor Rick Warren to oppose an antigay bill currently being debated in the Ugandan legislature promoted by his allies. In March 2008, Warren told Ugandans that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. Now the country is debating a bill that would lead to life imprisonment for gay sex, and death for those having same sex relations if they are HIV positive or having sex with someone under 18, plus criminalize any human rights organizing for LGBT rights.

Sign our petition calling on Rick Warren to denounce this bill and challenge his friends like Archbishop Henry Orombi and Pastor Martin Sempa who are leading the charge. Sign here!

Watch for PRA's year-long investigation of U.S. right-wing evangelicals’ outreach in Africa, to be released this month!

UPDATE: In an October 31 statement, Rick Warren distanced himself from one Ugandan antigay activist but that is not good enough. We need him to denounce the bill itself, and challenge his friend Archbishop Henry Orombi's support of it.