WND
EXCLUSIVE
U.S. BLASTS 1 NATION OVER SEX, IGNORES ANOTHER
Polygamy, homosexuality issues becoming political hot potato - Bob Unruh
When
Ugandans adopted a law that increased penalties for homosexual
behavior, which violates the standards of morality in the Africa
nation, news media described it as “repressive.”
Barack
Obama called in a “step backward” and threatened it “will
complicate our valued relationship with Uganda.” Secretary of State
John F. Kerry immediately jumped into the fray, calling for a repeal.
The
law, he warned, “threatens a dangerous slide backward in Uganda’s
commitment to protecting the human rights of its people and a serious
threat to the LGBT community in Uganda.”
But
when lawmakers in neighboring Kenya passed a law that addresses a
moral issue in their nation – allowing men to bring home a second
or third wife without even asking the first for permission – the
White House was silent. There was no word from the Obama
administration despite women in the Kenyan legislature marching out
in protest and human rights activists around the world expressing
horror.
Katherine
Pfaff of the State Department’s press duty office told WND: “We
don’t have a comment on this.”
Scott
Lively of Abiding
Truth Ministries is
in the middle of his own fight over sexual standards in Africa. He
told WND that the two situations show the State Department’s
advocacy for sexual license around the world.
He
said the homosexual appears to have begun before Obama took office.
But while it was going 20 mph in the wrong direction under President
George W. Bush, under Obama it now is going 100 mph.
Lively
was sued by group called Sexual Minorities Uganda. The group accuses
him of damaging its members by preaching the biblical perspective on
homosexuality.
They
allege Lively must be punished for criticizing homosexuality, calling
his speech a “crime against humanity” in violation of
“international law.” While Lively’s attorneys say his speech is
protected by the Constitution, the case still has to be sorted out in
federal court.
Lively
told WND he spotted the formal pro-homosexual advocacy of the State
Department in Riga, Latvia, in 2007, when the U.S. Embassy there was
spending taxpayer dollars to organize and promote a homosexual
parade.
He
recalls asking embassy workers why it was happening, and “they had
no answer.”
Lively,
whose commentary is online at ScottLively.net,
said he’s convinced the State Department is “a
morally corrupt entity to its core.”
“We
have been advancing an aggressive sexually immoral agenda around the
world for a long time,” he said.
He
charged that whenever there is sexual immorality to be advanced, the
U.S. goes to bat. In other cases, such as when immorality already is
advancing through agendas like Kenya’s polygamy, he said, the U.S.
is silent.
“They’re
not going to criticize that,” he said. “It fits with their
agenda.”
The
Uganda ban on homosexual behavior was signed
into law by President Yoweri-Museveni.
Homosexuality
already was banned in the nation, as it is in Nigeria, and the new
Ugandan law enhances sentences.
Obama
had issued statements that Uganda’s law would create issues for
U.S. relations, calling it “abhorrent.”
“As
President Obama has said, this law is more than an affront and a
danger to the gay community in Uganda, it reflects poorly on the
country’s commitment to protecting the human rights of its people
and will undermine public health, including efforts to fight
HIV/AIDS,” press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. “We
will continue to urge the Ugandan government to repeal this abhorrent
law and to advocate for the protection of the universal human rights
of LGBT persons in Uganda and around the world.”
Amnesty
International noted that 38 of Africa’s 54 nations ban same-sex
relationships.
Kerry
said immediately that the $400 million an annual U.S. aid to Uganda
would be reviewed “to ensure that all dimensions of our engagement,
including assistance programs, uphold our anti-discrimination
policies and principles and reflect our values.”
The
Washington Post also reported Christian
leaders in Kenya are asking the president not to sign the new
polygamy plan.
Sunny
Ntayombya, at All Africa, commented
in an editorial: “I doubt whether any young girl imagines becoming
someone’s third wife, no matter how rich and powerful he is.”
The
Guardian noted that polygamy already
was common among the country’s “Muslim community,” and reports
document that the nation’s Muslim population is surging and now
makes up about one-fifth of its citizens.
WND
reported before
Barack Obama’s first election that he actively campaigned on behalf
of fellow Luo tribesman Raila Odinga in the presidential race in
Kenya.
It
was revealed that Odinga had signed a Memorandum of Understanding
with Muslims in the country at that point. It included provisions for
Odinga to get support from Muslims and for Odinga to agree to
“support Islam.”
When
Odinga ultimately lost that election, Muslims ran amok, killing
hundreds of Christians, sometimes even in their own churches, and
Kenya created a special executive position for Odinga to bring a halt
to the violence.
Lively’s longtime
teaching of the biblical view of homosexuality made
him a target for the SMUG organization.
Judge
Michael Posner, in moving the case against Lively forward, sided with
the “gays” in his first paragraph, explaining that while SMUG is
made up of groups “that advocate for the fair and equal treatment
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people,”
Lively is an “American citizen residing in Springfield, Mass., who,
according to the complaint, holds himself out to be an expert on what
he terms the ‘gay movement.’”
The
judge cited “many authorities” who “implicitly support the
principle that widespread, systematic persecution of individuals
based on their sexual orientation and gender identity constitutes a
crime against humanity.”
He
argued the assertion that Lively’s statements are protected under
the First Amendment was “premature.”
Lively’s
defenders note that while there may have been some actions in Uganda
against homosexuals, there are no allegations of any “plausible
connection between Mr. Lively and the actual perpetrators of those
alleged violent acts.”
Read
more
at http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/u-s-blasts-1-african-nation-over-sex-ignores-another/#YymIGVPjJ2crDb8E.99
My
comments:
The Secular Humanists want to “normalize” behavior that is an
abomination to God Almighty, His Word, His Covenant and His
Commandments. In doing so they are fighting against God. It is a
battle that cannot win; as they did not win in the days of Noah or
the days of Sodom and Gomorrah; or as Scripture tells us they do not
win at the End of the Age; the day we are living in.
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