{"id":7509,"date":"2010-02-18T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7509"},"modified":"2010-02-18T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:19:30","slug":"ugandan-aversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ugandan-aversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan aversion therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Ssempa<\/a>, a Ugandan pastor has supposedly shown homosexual pornography in his church to let people know \u201cwhat homosexuals do.\u201d <\/em>For most of us, it is sufficient to imagine.<\/p>\n

I suspect that the well intentioned cleric has made a bit of a blunder; perhaps he was trying to deter his congregation from following suit by exhibiting the undisputable (to a heterosexual) yuck factor; perhaps he genuinely thought his congregation could not make an informed decision without seeing for themselves \u201cwhat homosexuals do\u201d<\/em>; or perhaps he is na\u00efve and overzealous.<\/p>\n

The usual coterie of LBGT and leftist hangers on have roundly condemned<\/a> him.<\/p>\n

John Bothwell<\/a>, at one time bishop of the Diocese of Niagara, used to take a similar approach to toughen up his seminary students before agreeing to employ them. Every year he would show ordinands a pornographic homosexual film to introduce them to the real world \u2013 at least, his real world. The only people who complained were the audience.<\/p>\n

Here is the article from the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An anti-gay clergyman in Uganda has screened gay pornography in his church, in an attempt to gain support for proposed anti-homosexuality laws.<\/p>\n

“We are in the process of legislation and we have to educate ourselves about what homosexuals do,” Pastor Martin Ssempa told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Gay rights activists suggested the pastor “needed medical help”.<\/p>\n

The anti-gay bill, which proposes the death penalty for some gay people, has caused outrage around the world.<\/p>\n

US President Barack Obama described the proposals as “odious”.<\/p>\n

Monica Mbaru, from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, roundly condemned the pastor’s behaviour.<\/p>\n

“You cannot screen pornographic material to your followers and then want to argue that you are upholding society’s morals,” she told the BBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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