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I just saw this from the Human Rights Campaign. My brother, also gay, works a lot in Africa. This is nothing compared to some of the stories he's told me.

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U.S. pastors are exporting bigotry to Uganda, with brutal results.

This is an issue close to my heart, because I've spent over a decade working for equality as a lay leader in my own church, and now, as acting director of HRC's Religion and Faith program – which helps religious leaders of all stripes speak out for equality and fight back when hatred is promoted in the name of religion.

On Thursday, that perversion of faith cost Ugandan gay rights advocate David Kato his life. He was bludgeoned to death in his home after his name was among those listed in an anti-gay magazine, under the headline "Hang them!"

Since at least 2009, radical U.S. Christian missionaries have added anti-gay conferences and workshops in Uganda to their anti-gay efforts in the U.S. – and now they're beginning to ordain ministers and build churches across East Africa focused almost entirely on preaching against homosexuality.

I got an action alert about this from HRC and signed the petition:

https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/A...

Since these 'ministers' believe in an eye for an eye, sometimes I feel like accommodating them.

I thought it might be worthwhile sharing with my fellow Queereaders this link to an Amnesty International campaign:

http://action.amnesty.org.uk/ea-campa...

Please send a message of remembrance for David Kato and solidarity to LGBTQ organisations in Uganda.