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Exclusive: American Evangelical Lou Engle in Uganda (VIDEO)

Posted: 06/23/10 02:41 AM ET

In March 2009, three American evangelicals traveled to Uganda to headline an anti-gay conference. Soon after, legislation was proposed that would make being gay punishable by life in prison or, in some cases, death. The anti-homosexuality bill drew international condemnation, with both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama weighing in.

And while many American evangelicals released statements criticizing the bill after the controversy erupted, at least one of them traveled to Uganda in person. In May, Lou Engle, founder of TheCall Ministry and a chief campaigner for Proposition 8, the measure that outlaws same sex marriage in California, traveled to the east African nation to headline a prayer event.

Before he left for Uganda, Engle sent out a press release saying that he was not going there to promote the anti-homosexuality bill. Weeks after returning, Engle sent out another press release voicing his regret that the bill was promoted at TheCall Uganda event and says that it happened after he had left.

As we show in Vanguard's "Missionaries of Hate," during TheCall Uganda, Engle surrounded himself with some of the key backers of Uganda's anti-gay legislation, including Pastor Julius Oyet, Minister of Ethics and Integrity Nsaba Buturo and the bill's author, MP David Bahati.

Others have already pointed out how Oyet actually spoke in support of the bill before Engle with Buturo following just after. We showed a bit of what Engle said in our documentary, but many have been wondering what else he said during his sermon at the prayer event.

Here's a bit more of the man in his own words:

 

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07:45 AM on 06/26/2010
I am here in Uganda - I was at The Ugandan Call and in fact I was interviewed by Current TV -- but refused to sign their release form.

Since most of you commenting on this issue do not have the information that I do - it woud be good for me to lay out some of the true facts.

In Uganda we have no word in our local language for the word Homosexual - it does not exist. Just as AIDS when it first ravaged this continent was taboo - because of ignorance - it is the same is true with homosexuality. People are always afraid of what they do not understand.

At the present time we have only a couple of laws against homosexual activity. One being that it is illegal. When the bill was drafted the writer simply took the existing laws for hetrosexuals and substituted the word homosexual.

For example: The one that most people are ranting about is law the condemns Adults (over age 18) with HIV that infect minors - they would be given the death penalty. That law currently exists for hetrosexuals but NOT for homosexuals.

The world needs to know that the bill as it was written (and exsists today) was meant to be debated. It was never going to be passed with out debate. The bill has never reached even the first stage of debating.
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03:52 PM on 06/23/2010
Sharia law seems to be OK when it is the Christian version.
12:26 AM on 06/26/2010
Bingo.
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10:50 AM on 06/23/2010
So Lou Engle calls himself a Christian He then travels to Uganda and speaks in favor of a law that would require the death penalty for homosexual people.

Hmmm ...

"Thou Shalt Not Kill."

"Judge not lest ye be judged."

Guess Mr. Engle's bible is missing those pages, huh?
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06:19 AM on 06/23/2010
That instinct, which God has embedded in humanity in order to protect marriage, has become the Devil's mightiest tool against God and against marriage, so he is using it. That which God has given us so that we can experience togetherness and faithfulness and happiness - the Devil uses against God in order to deceive and distort. Of course, in the animal kingdom there are males and females and in the plant world there are also male and female plants; in neither animal nor plant life do abnormalities occur and every species stays with its own species. Legalizing same sex partnerships will simply create disasters beyond comparison!
God is love.
06:25 AM on 06/23/2010
My Post Judeo-Christian heritage series

For Einstein, the greatest Jew ever, the Word God was Devoid of the Divine.
Most mortals believe in a “personal God”, in heaven and souls, in idols and all kinds of sacred follies. And they also believe that Einstein believed in God.

Not only Einstein’s personal God has been dead all along. In fact God was never even alive according to Einstein.

According to Einstein, God is “a product of human weakness”. That is what’s important. Beyond that all the pretentious, pseudo-science is empty, meaningless, and delusional.

Einstein’s quotes were used by dealers of delusions to confuse the common man to fool him about Einstein true religious beliefs. Einstein categorically rejected the supernatural.

In his article, Albert Einstein’s God — the “Product of Human Weaknesses”, published on Thursday, May 15, 2008, R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth wrote: Einstein’s language is very clear. God is dismissed as “nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses” — a statement hauntingly like the verdict of Friedrich Nietzsche... In the end, it is better to see Einstein, not as a believer of sorts, but as an atheist of sorts. Belief in God was simply childish, he asserted.

http://www.albertmohler.com/2008/05/15/albert-einsteins-god-the-product-of-human-weaknesses/
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/word-god-is-product-of-human-weakness.html
10:57 AM on 06/23/2010
Please elaborate on the disasters that will unfold.
11:17 AM on 06/23/2010
My friend, I hope this is your picture. You look so sexy...