{"id":11780,"date":"2011-02-10T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2011-02-10T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:02:56","slug":"the-rev-canon-dr-martin-brokenleg-does-some-more-david-kato-handwringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-rev-canon-dr-martin-brokenleg-does-some-more-david-kato-handwringing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rev. Canon Dr. Martin Brokenleg does some more David Kato handwringing"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is not Anglican requiem tradition to eulogize the deceased, although it would be easy to do so in the case of David Kato. He was Anglican, openly gay and worked for human rights for sexual minorities.\u00a0 Born in Uganda, he lived for some time in South Africa, a safe place for gay and lesbian people.\u00a0 Then in 1998, the same year that Matthew Shepard, also Anglican, was beaten to death in the United States, David returned to Uganda to work for justice for gay and lesbian people. He founded Sexual Minorities Uganda and was known internationally for his work.<\/p>\n

At around 2 pm on Jan. 26, 2011,<\/em> David was beaten to death with a hammer. He was in his own home in Uganda. No ordained Anglican clergyperson came to bury him. Instead, a lay reader was sent to lead the funeral.\u00a0 When the lay reader denounced gay persons, some in the crowed cheered. Then a young lesbian named Kasha seized the microphone and spoke about David\u2019s work. Eventually, an Anglican bishop not recognized by the Church of Uganda because of his support for gay folk, spoke a comforting word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Brokenleg doesn\u2019t bother to mention is the real reason David Kato was murdered. It wasn\u2019t because someone who hates homosexuals decided to take it out on Kato. Nor was it because Kato was a Christian or a gay Anglican: it was because Kato had promised to pay a criminal to have sex with him<\/a> and after the deed was done, didn\u2019t pay up.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help wondering whether the Rev. Canon Dr. Martin Brokenleg has as much sympathy for the thousands of Christians who are being martyred, tortured, arrested and turned out of their homes \u2013 usually in Islamic nations \u2013 or whether they hold little interest for him since they are being persecuted for their faith not their sexual proclivities. We never hear “requiems” for them, so, presumably not.<\/p>\n

The Anglican Church of Canada continues to claim that it isn\u2019t obsessed with deviant sex<\/a>. Who believes them? Not me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: It is not Anglican requiem tradition to eulogize the deceased, although it would be easy to do so in the case of David Kato. He was Anglican, openly gay and worked for human rights for sexual minorities.\u00a0 Born … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,652,1300],"class_list":["post-11780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-david-kato","tag-rev-canon-dr-martin-brokenleg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}