In 2008 "Purpose Driven Life" author Rick Warren designated Uganda as the world's 2nd official "Purpose Driven" nation and, judging from what's been going on in Uganda, a significant part of Warren's driving purpose would seem to be the draconian and violent elimination of public homosexuality and even the categorical elimination of gays altogether.

Richard Duane Warren has closely allied himself with some of the most viciously anti-gay religious leaders in the world. Most recently he has refused to oppose an anti-gay bill now before Uganda's parliament that some critics say could mandate the execution of HIV positive Ugandan citizens.

That's not a fluke on Warren's part. It's a pattern. For example, the exploits of Warren's former close associate Martin Ssempa, who Warren worked closely with into 2007 have, as Max Blumenthal described in a trenchant January 7, 2009 Daily Beast story, "included publishing the names of homosexuals in local newspapers while lobbying for criminal penalties to imprison them." Such incitement of anti-gay hatreds in Uganda has been associated with disappearances, torture, and extra-judicial killing.

The pattern continues. As the new Talk To Action report, Rick Warren's Dissertation Advisor Leads Network Promoting Uganda Anti-Gay Bill details,

Warren has supported  the role of Archbishops Orombi, Peter Akinola of Nigeria, and Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda as leaders in the GAFCON/CFA realignment of the Anglican church on the issue of homosexuality.  As reported in a March 29, 2008 story from the AllAfrica.com news service, in March 2008 Rick Warren attended a conference of Ugandan Anglican Bishops who were protesting the Church of England's tolerance for homosexuality. AllAfrica, reporting on his appearance, summarized Warren's quotes as "homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right," and directly quoted Warren as stating, "We shall not tolerate this aspect at all."

Archbishop Orombi has claimed that "rich" homosexuals were "doing whatever it takes to make sure this vice penetrates Africa." Rwanda's Archbishop Kolini spoke at a "peace crusade" gathering of participants from Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania at which he was reported in the Rwandan News as "calling on churches in the East African region to fight against homosexuality for the good of the society."  Rwanda was Rick Warren's first declared "Purpose Driven Nation" and Kolini serves on the steering committee for Warren's Purpose Driven/P.E.A.C.E. Plan in Rwanda and Saddleback Church's Rwandan HIV/AIDS HealthCare Initiative.  The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has warned that "Kolini sets a dangerous tone for the discussion of homosexuality in the country," and that threats of anti- gay legislation are increasing.

Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria presides over an estimated eighteen million Nigerian Anglicans, and Akinola has backed anti-gay legislation literally more severe than analogous legislation promulgated during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. In an April 30, 2006 Time Magazine op-ed Warren lavished praise on Akinola, writing,

Latin American church leaders like Akinola, 61, are bright, biblical, courageous and willing to point out the inconsistencies, weaknesses and theological drift in Western churches....

...Akinola has the strength of a lion....

I believe he, like Mandela, is a man of peace and his leadership is a model for Christians around the world.

So, what sort of societal changes go on in Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven" nations ? If Uganda is any indication, "Purpose Driven" countries start with noisy theocratic pronouncements, such as Uganda's January 1, 2001 ceremony, held in a sports stadium, during which Uganda's leaders officially dedicated their nation to Jesus Christ and "covenanted" the country to God for the next 1,000 years. The agenda, as Uganda suggests, then proceeds to hunting down and eradicating gays. Who's next - Jews ?

That issue is mostly moot because Uganda drove out its small ethnic Jewish  population during the regime of Idi Amin. But Rick Warren's doctoral thesis advisor C. Peter Wagner heads religious networks that have played a major role in organizing and inspiring the pending Ugandan anti-gay legislation and, not too surprisingly, one of C. Peter Wagner's "apostles," Jim Ammerman, has for years been spreading a virulently anti-Jewish conspiracy theory alleging that Jewish bankers run the world.