In Dallas this morning at the Creating Change conference, religious leaders from across the country gathered for an alternative prayer breakfast as a response to the one occurring in Washington, D.C. Harry Knox, the Human Rights Campaign director of the religion and faith program of the Human Rights Campaign, said he asked the president to address the issue of Uganda at the breakfast. Evangelicals who reportedly were involved in the writing of the proposed anti-gay legislation were attending the breakfast in D.C.
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both addressed the issue directly in their remarks this morning.
Knox said that in addition to the Dallas event, groups gathered in 20 other cities to pray for the lives of LGBT Ugandans and their families who are threatened with state-sanctioned murder.
Rev. Stephen Sprinkle from TCU organized the service and Rev. Jo Hudson from Cathedral of Hope spoke. Others participating were Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of New York, Bishop Yvette Flunder of San Francisco and Rev. Rebecca Voelkel of D.C.
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Typical politicians. When will they stand up and criticize Islam for its pograms of muslim LGBT members?
Last week a Vanderbilt Professor on Islamic Studies openly stated that Islam requires execution of gays.
In Iraq gays are hunted down. Then when imprisoned their anuses are glued shut and they are fed laxatives and water until their internal organs burst. Suspected gays’ names are posted in public and they are either hunted down or treated like a disease. Graves of people “accused” of being gay are dug up and their dead bodies desecrated.
In Iran teen agers accused of being gay are hung.
In Gaza gays are hunted down and executed, many times by their own family members.
In Hamburg, Germany two male college exchange students were leaving a club together. They were attacked by German youth of Turkish Islamic origin, some as young as fifteen, and brutally beaten because the German youth, of Turkish Islamic origin, perceived them to be gay. They beat the exchange students so badly that one is now permanently disabled. Neither of the exchange students were gay.
In Egypt gays who went on a gay cruise were arrested and imprisoned.
What is the common thread? Islam! Islam has butchered and persecuted more gays, via state sanctioned pograms, yet politicians and LGBT community leaders are silent or avoid the issue.