The Antigay Highway
F COURSE This shows up in my in-box just as I’m going to work. Here’s a link. Comments later. The Antigay Highway: New Report Details Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy. “This report describes growing anti-gay movements in African churches as a ‘proxy war’ for US culture battles.”. I love being a wedge issue.
Huw blogged this on November 19th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Category: Teh Gay, politics, teh internets
Discussion: You came too late to this party
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Category: Teh Gay, politics, teh internets
Discussion: You came too late to this party
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I found this line to be particularly humorous:
“Additionally, conservative evangelicals have been immensely successful in depicting the movement for gay equality as the neocolonialist agenda of an arrogant, imperial West that seeks to undermine African values. According to this equation, advances for gay rights in the United States are proof of a mounting gay threat to African culture, resulting in increased repression in countries like Uganda and Kenya.”
Has anyone here read the novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achube? If you have, you will see the irony of conservative evangelicals criticizing an imperial West for undermining African values. Where do you think Africans got their homophobic values? From conservative, puritanical missionaries from the Church of England, that’s where.