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Pastor in
Uganda rails against gay activity by showing porn
20 Feb
2010- A Ugandan pastor has pushed his anti-homosexual rage onto his
parishioners, by screening gay pornography at his packed church.
The pastor, Martin Ssempa, a well known advocate of stronger anti-gay laws, said
he had shown the graphic pictures to elicit support for a Ugandan bill drafted
last year that would further criminalise homosexuality.
The screening was attended by around 300 supporters, who pushed into Ssempa's
evangelical church in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Ssempa told his followers it was not good enough for homosexuals to argue what
they were doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
Before showing the footage, he said: "Do you know what they do in their
bedrooms?"
The proposed anti-gay bill in Uganda initially received broad political support,
but politicians later backed away when US President Barack Obama, referred to it
as "odious."
Homosexuality in Uganda is already punishable by life imprisonment in some
instances.
The new bill would introduce the death penalty to some existing laws.
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