Hacking Christianity questions Rick Warren’s involvement with Uganda
In Uganda, the government is deliberating a bill that would criminalize homosexuality, call for the death penalty of gay persons with AIDS, restrict free speech, and harsh punishment for straight people who do not turn in gay acquaintances. There really is no other term to describe this bill other than genocide…the state-sanctioned kind. …
Why is this being posted here? Because Rick Warren is personally involved in this process. He contributed to the rise to power of Pastor Martin Ssempa …, one of the main proponents of this bill.
Rick Warren is actively involved in Uganda and made Martin Ssempa the super-pastor he is today (he was a frequent guest in his pulpit and is pictured to the right with Rick Warren’s spouse Kay)…and now refuses to critique his involvement or his former accomplice. While Warren states that he has separated from Ssempa as of 2007, he won’t comment or involve his organization or himself on this issue of genocide.
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UMJeremy 12.04.09 at 3:32 pm
Thanks for the link, Richard! What do you think about it?
Kim 12.04.09 at 3:44 pm
Warren - he’s got form. But the deafening silence of the British Churches at national level, especially the Anglican Church - with the exception of the URC (I’m proud to say) - our spokesperson has called the legislation “morally repugnant” - such ecclesial inertia, suggesting consent, is - one reaches for the word “apostate”, which certainly describes the Ugandan (Reich) Church itself. Proverbs 31:8! To re-phrase Bonhoeffer, “Only those who cry out for the homosexuals may sing Gregorian chant.”
Ken Brown 12.10.09 at 7:47 pm
Well, according to these links to what Warren has been saying he has come out strongly against the threatened new law, for all sorts of good reasons.