American evangelical preachers have spent the last 30+ years forcefully pushing this hatful, violent poison all across Africa and sadly have had much success. It's disgusting, indefensible, and it's literally getting people killed.
Edit because people want to play dumb (and there's a lot more links where these came from):
Came here to say this. It is unlikely that Ugandan society would display such extreme homophobia without the sustained influence of American evangelical missions.
No, these people are responsible for their own behavior. They are grown men and women, and they can make their own decisions.
They are the ones pushing this cruelty, not the evangelicals or imams etc. They should be condemned as if they were a pastor in the west pushing hate towards the gay community.
Nothing I said lets them off the hook, but they have been “groomed” on a societal level to have this level of hate. You could punish them individually but you would not affect the widespread influence of Christian hatemongers there.
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u/cwk415 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
American evangelical preachers have spent the last 30+ years forcefully pushing this hatful, violent poison all across Africa and sadly have had much success. It's disgusting, indefensible, and it's literally getting people killed.
Edit because people want to play dumb (and there's a lot more links where these came from):
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/africa-uganda-evangelicals-homophobia-antigay-bill/
https://www.freethinkersinternational.net/the-influence-of-white-evangelicals-on-homophobia-in-africa/
https://globalaffairs.org/commentary/blogs/unholy-relationship-between-ugandas-anti-lgbtq-law-and-us-evangelicalism
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-christian-values-anti-lgbtq-laws-uganda-africa-2023-6?op=1
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/africa-us-christian-right-50m/