If you heard Terry Gross interview Jeff Sharlet on Fresh Air today, you learned that The Family has been funding Ugandan MP David Bahati's Anti-Homosexuality bill, which would condemn anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality" to death. If drugs or alcohol are involved in a homosexual act it would be considered "aggravated," for example, creating the Kafkaesque scenario of meeting someone in a bar, taking him or her home, having sex, and winding up in front of a firing squad or at the end of a rope. If you fail to report someone you know to be gay--even your own child--you could be imprisoned. To learn that elected American politicians are part of a "Christian" organization that has been backing this horse makes me want to hurl. So, are you going to sit here clicking through diaries, or are you going to fire off some letters to the editor or make a few phone calls?
As an American who votes in Oregon but lives and works in Canada, I see parliamentary governance at work every day. Most private members bills are like farts in the wind. But every now and then, one will get traction and move up through the legislative sausage-making process, and it looks like this hateful piece of merde in Uganda may be doing just that. The fact that our tax dollars fly U.S. members of Congress to Uganda on military planes to coach and cozy up to people crafting legislation that should be considered crimes against humanity makes my blood boil. Look at this list of senators and congressmen (yes, it's all MEN). If any of them represent you or your state in Washington, how about giving them a call and asking them why they support an organization that funds such inhumanity?
Sam Brownback Sen. (R-KS)
James Inhofe Sen. (R-OK)
Jim DeMint Sen. (R-SC)
Chuck Grassley Sen. (R-IA)
Richard Lugar Sen. (R-IN)
John Ensign Sen. (R-NV)
Tom Coburn Sen. (R-OK)
Mark Pryor Sen. (D-AR)
Bill Nelson Sen. (D-FL)
John Thune Sen. (R-SD)
Mike Enzi Sen. (R-WY)
Joe Pitts Rep. (R-PA)
Todd Tiahrt Rep. (R-KS)
Frank Wolf Rep. (R-VA)
Zach Wamp Rep. (R-TN)
Mike McIntyre Rep. (D-NC)
Bart Stupak Rep. (D-MI)
Michael Doyle Rep. (D-PA)
Heath Shuler Rep. (D-NC)
Jerry Mor Rep. (R-KS)
Recently, someone narced on the C Street House to DC tax authorities, and, as Rachel Maddow reports here, the property lost its tax-exempt status. It's time to put The Family's nuts in a vice. What I'd like to say is let's get The Family small enough to drown it in a bathtub, but then I'd probably be put on the no-fly list, and that would be a royal pain. But if we can keep applying pressure, shining more and more light on their secretive shenanigans--even if there is a lot of other serious stuff on our plate--we will see more results. Losing their below-market-rate room rents isn't going to stop them. Maybe a RICO suit against The Family could be brought. I don't know. They're so deeply burrowed in, they probably think they're invulnerable.
They may be deluded into thinking that Jesus' message was all about power, rather than love and forgiveness, but if you have studied the Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek as I have, you know it's a bunch of demonic bullshit, and these morons have swallowed it hook, line, sinker, oars, and engine.
Let's give em a little taste of hell.