Another step to 'Christianize' Uganda: IHOP promotes prejudice

Yeah, they are wrong, and this is bad.

But we owe them thanks for this video.

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Anyone who is intolerant against homosexuals. That includes Christian evangelicals who demand the death penalty for homosexuality, but obviously even much more so Islamist governments which execute the death penalty against homosexuals.

 

No, obviously not, and I never said that.

Because making idiotic demands is one thing, actually acting on it and murdering people another.

And water is wet. Congratulations for having made this groundbreaking discovery.

 

I just read the article, and the comment from the group being criticized is:

"The IHOPKC leadership team upholds the New Testament view of the sanctity of sex in the context of marriage between one man and one woman,” the statement said. “However, we strongly oppose victimization or violence against any sector of society that disagrees with the biblical view. We honor the dignity and rights of all who differ from us."


I am on the far spectrum of Christianity from these guys on a ton of issues, I'm sure...and my disdain for Christian fundamentalism is pretty well established here... I'm pretty sure these guys would argue I'm not a real Christian...but I'm finding it difficult to find the call for violence from this group that is being asserted in the thread.

There is talk about a law that was proposed for the death penalty for certain homosexual acts...but the article never even remotely tries to establish that missionaries from this group were behind that effort.

 

Thanks MadMax, for the clarification. In bongman's desperate and unsuccessful attempt to play "gotcha", he failed on all levels.

 

I like their pancakes.

 

Christianize me

 

The article does a bad job, but my understanding is that one of the head guys of IHOP (which is actually based on Kansas City) is shown in the film in Uganda pushing for the passage of what is generally known as the "kill the gays" bill.

 

From a quick google search - this is obviously a biased article, but I assume they didn't make this up:

http://www.religiondispatches.org/a...e_global_reach_of_far_right_christian_hatred/


Filmmaker Williams was given remarkable access to leaders and missionaries affiliated with the International House of Prayer (IHOP) movement based in Kansas City, and he makes the most of it. Dominionist Lou Engle describes Africa as a “firepot of spiritual renewal and revival,” and be believes Uganda has a special prophetic destiny. Engle has tried to distance himself somewhat from the infamous “kill the gays” bill that is pending in Uganda’s legislature, but here he is on film, at his TheCall rally in Uganda, standing with speakers calling for passage of the bill.

Engle tells the crowd he was “called” to encourage the Ugandan church for taking a stand for righteousness in the face of pressure from the United Nations and non-governmental aid organizations. Uganda, he says, is “ground zero.” The film also includes footage of Engle’s pro-Prop. 8 rally in California at which he warned that allowing same-sex couples to get married would unleash “sexual insanity” and a spirit “more demonic than Islam.”

 

Sounds like a grade "A" a-hole. Terrible.

 

Nope. All I knew of this guy and that group when I made that post was from the article in the OP. Major's information was helpful. I can't stand this stuff. It deeply offends me.

 

Why should I disprove anything? I have always known that there are idiots of all kinds of religions, as well as atheist idiots, and I already condemned any such views in my first reply. I have no idea if you belong to any religion, but I already know that you, too, are an idiot.

 

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