US evangelicals helped ‘radicalize’ anti-LGBTQ hate in Uganda

Uganda has passed one of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, and U.S. evangelical groups had their hands all over it. The East African nation has long pursued criminalizing homosexuality, and a draft version calls for the death penalty for “serial offenders” and other cases involving gay sex, and American religious organizations have invested millions of dollars to deepen homophobic views commonly held in the region, reported the Washington Post. “In 2020, London-based OpenDemocracy found that more than 20 American religious organizations advocating against LGBTQ rights, safe aborti…

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