Why you should care about David Kato

David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda was murdered this past week.  This came after the names of known homosexuals in Uganda were published in the newspaper with the full backing of the Ugandan government.  You see, Ugandans believe homosexuals will steal their children and turn them into gay people, so they want all the gay people in Uganda killed.


This push to kill gay people in Uganda has come to a head after a visit to the government of Uganda from a group from here in the US claiming to be "experts" on how to deal with homosexuals.  One of the members of this group is a man by the name of Scott Lively.  


I had the displeasure of dealing with Scott Lively back in 1992 when he and a group called the Oregon Citizens Alliance got a statewide ballot measure placed before the voters in Oregon attempting to amend the constitution thusly:

All governments in Oregon may not use their monies or properties to promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism. All levels of government, including public education systems, must assist in setting a standard for Oregon's youth which recognizes that these behaviors are abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse and they are to be discouraged and avoided.

To include homosexuality with pedophiles, and during the campaign they even linked gays to beastiality - was beyond the pale.  To say it was a very contentious campaign was putting it mildly as there were threats against openly gay individuals and supporters during the fight against this amendment.  It was defeated but the effects lingered, and the Oregon Citizens Alliance took their fight to individual cities within the state and won in places like Springfield and Canby.  Eventually the state legislature overruled these local measures and the opposition eventually formed the basis for much of what currently ensures gays the rights they have in Oregon and the development of the group Basic Rights Oregon.

I tell you all of this, because Scott Lively is no more an expert on homosexuals than I am an expert in news broadcasting.  (I am NOT)   For him to now take his hate -filled agenda outside the borders of the US, where he can not be monitored for his hate-crimes, is sickening in my opinion.  Especially when this man purports to be a so-called christian man. 

It is apparent to me that this person- Scott Lively and the people who subscribe to his rhetoric, are fomenting hate for anyone who is not like them.  You might be next...