C Street Tied To Proposed Uganda Law: Death Penalty for Gays

By GottaLaff

A must-watch C-Street overview:



You really need to go read the whole article, but Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, fills us in on yet another jaw-dropping way that C Street has affected lives (and deaths) in the worst possible way.

David Bahati, a member of the Ugandan Parliament and The Family, introduced a bill that would... well, let's let Jeff Sharlet explain:

SHARLET: Well, the new legislation adds to this something called aggravated homosexuality. And this can include, for instance, if a gay man has sex with another man who is disabled, that’s aggravated homosexuality, and that man can be – I suppose both, actually, could be put to death for this. The use of any drugs or any intoxicants in seeking gay sex – in other words, you go to a bar and you buy a guy a drink, you’re subject to the death penalty if you go home and sleep together after that. What it also does is it extends this outward, so that if you know a gay person and you don’t report it, that could mean – you don’t report your son or daughter, you can go to prison.

And it goes further, to say that any kind of promotion of these ideas of homosexuality, including by foreigners, can result in prison terms. Talking about same sex-marriage positively can lead you to imprisonment for life. And it’s really kind of a perfect case study and the export of a lot of American largely evangelical ideas about homosexuality exported to Uganda, which then takes them to their logical end.

The article has a lot more to it. But suffice it to say, these people must be stopped. Pushing their beliefs on to others, and to this extent, is criminal and sick. They give a whole new meaning to the word "cult".

The worst part is:

[T]he members of The Family, truly know what is best for the rest of us.

And just FYI:

Here is a list of current elected officials Sharlet mentioned in the interview:

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wy. Sen. Chuck Grassley Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Sen. Bill Nelson, Fla. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C. Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Penn. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C. Rep. Bart Stupak, D- Mich. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va.

Other notable members: Rep. Chuck Pickering, who had ongoing extramarital liaisons in his room at the cult house on C Street. Chuck Colson, Watergate felon, who was released early from prison at the request of members of The Family Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., whom Sharlet says provided classified documents to the cult Sen. Absalom Willis Robertson, Virginia Dixiecrat and father of televangelist Pat Robertson

Democrat Bart Stupak... of the Stupak-Pitt Amendment to the health care bill that essentially does away with women's reproductive rights. Yes, that Stupak. Yes, that health care bill.

So much for what was left of Stupak's credibility, because if there is one thing C Street is not, it is healthy.

H/t: Alan Colmes