Stop TheCall to Violence in Uganda

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STOP THE CALL TO VIOLENCE IN UGANDA!
SUNDAY, MAY 2ND, 2010 KAMPALA, UGANDA

TELL LOU ENGLE OF KANSAS CITY:
NO MORE EXPORTING HOMOPHOBIA
AND SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE TO UGANDA!

Another preacher from the United States is headed for Uganda to export homophobia through his ministry. Lou Engle of Kansas City, Missouri plans to fill a stadium in Kampala on May 2 to rally Ugandans against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. He calls it ministry - but rather than compassion and love, we feel this event preaches a message of intolerance and spiritual violence. We must do all in our power to stop the spread of hatred, physical and violence and discrimination in the guise of religion.. This so-called ministry is unrecognizable to all good people of faith who believe in love, compassion and acceptance.

You might remember Lou Engle and "TheCall" from the stadium event in San Diego, California just before Proposition 8 came to a vote. At the event, Engle convened masses of people to pray that marriage be taken from same-sex couples. Engle has preached fear, martyrdom and God's blood vengeance to his followers. He called San Francisco a dominion of darkness with "gay demons."

Now, Engle plans to bring "TheCall" to Uganda, where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are already fleeing from house to house to escape escalating persecution and violence triggered by the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill. In this environment, The Call is not just controversial it could be deadly.

The web site for TheCall Uganda stadium rally, in Kampala on May 2, exhorts people to fast and pray for 21 days before coming the mass rally in Kampala. Their goals are to fight against:

•Witchcraft and human sacrifice;
•Homosexuality and increased immorality;
•Disasters and the resultant suffering of the people; and
•The decay of morals and infrastructure of our city Kampala.

TheCall rally comes at a time when the bill called genocidal by a prominent Ugandan priest is still pending in Ugandas Parliament. The bill was proposed after a conference in Uganda where three US evangelists preached against gay people. World leaders were appalled by the bill. It was condemned by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the United States Senate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay.

We must do all in our power to send a counter message of hope and the need to respect the dignity of every human being, We must raise up our voices and answer the call to action to stop this blantant spread of homophobia by U.S. evangelists once and for all. We implore Lou Engle to stay out of Uganda when peoples lives are at stake.

(Scott Lively footage courtesy of Box Turtle Bulletin and Ex-Gay Watch.)

(Music by Kevin MacLeod)

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• homophobia

[MamoDad]

WWJD?

The exact OPPOSITE of ANYTHING that Lou Engle would do.

[punkmanjon]

This man is utterly evil. He has taken the teachings of the bible and twisted them completely to fit his own sick, abhorrent and repulsive ideology of hatred. Whenever he talks about love he should be ashamed as he has no idea what that word means. Lou Engle is the true face of evil in this world, evil, intolerance and ignorance.

[KylerDCook1]

LOL! You have to know Lou personally to understand the heart this man has for God and for people. I pray that one day when I am old, I will burn for the Gospel and for the spreading of Jesus' love to all the nations like his does. He is not homophobic. He is not close minded. He is not the opposite of Jesus. He is evidence that God still loves this world.

[LaurBooT15]

I thought this video was awesome! Not because of what your petition was trying to do but because Lou spoke the truth. He is not homophobic or spreading violence. He's trying to keep marriage sacred. He's not condeming homosexuals. He's condeming the spirit of homosexuality. There's a huge difference. He's an awesome man of God and is hated by many but only bcs of the truth he speaks. Remember people, Lou is a man made of flesh. Everyone makes mistakes. God is love.

[barronbarronbarron]

He loves Gay people LOVES them lol.

it says specifically in the bible that homosexuality is wrong

people who are gay are not demons what the heck he never ever said that humans arent demons maybe they have demons inside of them...

We LOOOOVE homosexual people but that doesnt make their sin right.

Lou Engle is a mighty man of God whenevr something true and right comes about there will be opposition. :)

[IwillhonorGod]

you should send a message of hope, true hope, and not false hope. But first you have to get a hope for your self. learn what is good, and learn to love it. and learn to hate evil. Just talk to Jesus and read your bible.

[IwillhonorGod]

So many things, the devil is working on, to destroy families, and marriages, says in Ephesians, some thing like, it is the core group, and when this group falls apart so will the rest of society.

says in the bible that the devil knows that his time is short also, and that he came to rob to kill and destroy, so he is very likely do that, as effectively and quickly as he can. Marriage is the heart of a country.

but there is so many things that wreck marriages. or can wreck marriages.

[IwillhonorGod]

some people are so dumb, regarding freedom. My country is free. I live in Canada. But I am not free to break the law. I am not free to do some thing that is going to take away the freedom of some one else. I do not have rights to do what is not right. If you do not know if some thing is right, do not demand it as a right! The word is right! NOT wrong!

[IwillhonorGod]

It is funny how you use the word acceptance. well, you say the guy is not accepting what you are expecting him to accept. So why are you not accepting this?

[IwillhonorGod]

And you used the word love. But tell me, how can you love, when you don't know what is good or evil? How can you love, when you shove Him away every time? when you say, we don't want to hear love! love does not exist! .............?.........don't know you that a father will protect his children, and this is what God does? who is a father? and this is why He sends His messengers? IT IS TO PROTECT YOU!! Not!!!....TO HARM YOU!!