I've recently become aware of this and I thought it was worth a post - mainly just to vent my frustration. I know it is another religion thread, and I am sorry.

Apparently, Evangelicals have been busy in Africa with far more than building churches and digging wells. They have also been using their significant pull ($$) to push the kinds of vile social engineering that, say, the Constitution in the United States or laïcité in France would not allow - and their efforts are bearing fruit.

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.
Uganda is an exceptionally lush, mostly rural country where conservative Christian groups wield enormous influence. This is, after all, the land of proposed virginity scholarships, songs about Jesus playing in the airport, “Uganda is Blessed” bumper stickers on Parliament office doors and a suggestion by the president’s wife that a virginity census could be a way to fight AIDS.

Uganda has also become a magnet for American evangelical groups. Some of the best known Christian personalities have recently passed through here, often bringing with them anti-homosexuality messages, including the Rev. Rick Warren, who visited in 2008 and has compared homosexuality to pedophilia. (Mr. Warren recently condemned the anti-homosexuality bill, seeking to correct what he called “lies and errors and false reports” that he played a role in it.)
And now, possibly first blood.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Kato was beaten to death with a hammer in his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. Police officials were quick to chalk up the motive to robbery, but members of the small and increasingly besieged gay community in Uganda suspect otherwise.

“David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009,” Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Uganda’s gay rights groups, said in a statement. “The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.”

Ms. Kalende was referring to visits in March 2009 by a group of American evangelicals, who held rallies and workshops in Uganda discussing how to turn gay people straight, how gay men sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” intended to “defeat the marriage-based society.”

The Americans involved said they had no intention of stoking a violent reaction. But the antigay bill was drafted shortly thereafter. Some of the Ugandan politicians and preachers who wrote it had attended those sessions and said that they had discussed the legislation with the Americans.
I'm not even going to comment on the Ugandans - they are obviously stupid and easily manipulated - but these Americans should know better. What part of being Christian involves traveling to other countries to stoke hatred and discrimination? Rick freaking Warren gave the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration.

I used to stand up for these people - they seemed far more genuine in their faith than the Episcopalians I grew up around - but I've really become disillusioned with the movement. This is sinister, evil stuff. They are little more than an American Taliban, except that the Taliban at least has the balls say what they really believe. These Christians play warm and fuzzy for old women in America looking to send money to somebody on TV while they entertain Old Testament fantasies in small African countries - fantasies they would most surely like to see implemented in here as well.

Christianity seems to offer nothing but torment to gay people around the world, all based on a few passages from the bible. It seems so contrary to what I was taught about the teachings of Jesus.