{"id":4151,"date":"2010-05-22T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2010-05-22T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:43:14","slug":"spreading-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/spreading-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading The Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/africa\/article7133431.ece\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4155\" title=\"ug-lgflag\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ug-lgflag-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Via the London <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/africa\/article7133431.ece\">Times<\/a>,<\/em> an instructive tale from Uganda:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When he arrived at Kampala\u2019s Hotel Triangle for a three-day conference, the Rev Kapya Kaoma knew that he would not like what he heard.<br \/>\nThe clue was in the event\u2019s title \u2014 \u201cExposing the truth behind homosexuality and the homosexual agenda\u201d \u2014 and in the line-up of guest speakers arranged by Stephen Langa, head of the Ugandan-based Family Life Network (FLN), and an outspoken advocate for the criminalisation of homosexuality in Uganda.<br \/>\nGiven top billing at the event hosted by the FLN was Scott Lively, president of Abiding Truth Ministries, an American conservative Christian group from California, and a Holocaust revisionist whose controversial book The Pink Swastika names homosexuals as \u201cthe true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities.\u201d<br \/>\nWeeks after the Kampala conference in March last year \u2014 which followed a meeting between the speakers and members of the Ugandan Parliament \u2014 a clause appeared in the country\u2019s draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill recommending life imprisonment for certain homosexual \u201ccrimes\u201d or, for \u201cserial offe<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/270px-Pink_triangle_svg.png\"><\/a>nders\u201d, the death sentence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the London Times, an instructive tale from Uganda: When he arrived at Kampala\u2019s Hotel Triangle for a three-day conference, the Rev Kapya Kaoma knew that he would not like what he heard. The clue was in the event\u2019s title &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/spreading-the-word\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[551,56,552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}