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Gays Want to Kill Me, Says Orombi
09 July 2008- Kampala, Uganda-
Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi yesterday said he fears for his life because of the
campaign he has waged against homosexuals.
"Nowadays, I don't wear my collar when I am
in countries which have supporters of homosexuals," he said while addressing
Christians at Kitunga archdeaconry, West Ankole diocese in Ntungamo district.
"I am forced to dress like a civilian
because those people are dangerous. They can harm anybody who is against them.
Some of them are killers. They want to close the mouth of anybody who is against
them."
Orombi is among the Anglican archbishops
who have led the boycott against the Lambeth Conference, which takes places
later this month, over the issue of homosexuality.
The Global Anglican Future Conference,
which was held in Jerusalem last month, resolved to form a new movement and
broke ties with the authority of Canterbury over the consecration of gay
bishops.
Despite the threats, Orombi yesterday
continued his anti-gay campaign, asking Christians to pray for him and others
who are against homosexuals.
"Homosexuals are agitating that it is a
human right. But how can it be a human right for a man to sleep with another man
or a woman to marry a woman?" he asked.
"What we need is to wake up and protect our
church and children against this practice."
He argued that God created men and women so
that they could have children and fill the world so that the generations could
continue. "So where do the homosexuals want to get their children?" he asked.
Orombi noted that homosexuals were trying
to take advantage of Africa's poverty by making donations, building schools and
offering scholarships.
"We should not accept any donation that
comes our way and has strings attached. Some people have already fallen victims
in Uganda and we need to stop it," the archbishop said.
Bishop Yona Katonene, the bishop of West
Ankole diocese, who accompanied the archbishop, said he had received a report
that a male teacher in Bushenyi had married a male student.
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