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The Ugandan Situation: Continued Monitoring Needed in 2010
The best comprehensive (and constantly updated) source I've seen for commentary on the Ugandan situation is Box Turtle Bulletin's "Slouching Towards Kampala." For anyone seeking ongoing commentary about Uganda and links to abundant research tracking what has been going on there vis-à-vis gay citizens for some time now, I can't recommend this source highly enough.
What follows is a supplementary (and very selective) list of links to recent articles that probe the role of the American religious and political right in Uganda. I offer these in the hope that they'll be useful to readers wanting to learn more about that aspect of the Ugandan situation.
(And as I offer these links, I'm struck by the dearth of commentary among--by the total silence of--the American Catholic intellectual elite, re: the Ugandan legislation. Shameful silence . . . . For an indicator of how desperately sane, open discussion (based in accurate information) of this issue is needed to correct malicious disinformation about queer folks circulating among African Christians, see my exchange with a commentator named Maazi N.C.O. following the recent National Catholic Reporter discussion of Uganda.)
And here's the list:
Frederick Clarkson, "The Africa Connection to the Attack on the Mainline Churches," Talk to Action, 19 Nov. 2009; and "U.S. Religious Right Stirs Up Anti-Gay Politics in Africa," Daily Kos, 23 Nov. 2009.
Frederick Clarkson, "`The Family' Behind Anti-Gay Act in Uganda," Talk to Action, 25 Nov. 2009.
Michelle Goldberg, "Uganda's Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right," Religion Dispatches, 30 Nov. 2009.
Father Jake, "Exporting Homophobia," Father Jake Stops the World, 21 Nov. 2009.
Kathryn Joyce, "The Anti-Gay Highway: New Report Details Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy," Religion Dispatches, 19 Nov. 2009.
Steven Webster, "Cult of Conservative Christian GOPers Backs Death Penalty for Gays with HIV," Alternet, 30 Nov. 2009.
See also Bruce Wilson's extensive reporting here at Talk to Action, most recently about California Prop 8 activist Lou Engle: "Will Lou Engle take his mega-antigay The Call to Uganda?", 20 Dec. 2009.
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