From Reuters:
Scuffles broke out between locals and friends of a murdered Ugandan gay activist at his funeral on Friday after the pastor conducting the service berated gay people and villagers refused to bury the coffin.
David Kato was beaten to death with a hammer on Wednesday, police said. His photo was printed on the cover of a newspaper last October that called for gays to be executed under a headline that read: "Hang them".
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During the funeral -- which was attended by about 300 people, including about 100 members of the country's gay community -- the pastor lashed out at homosexuality, provoking a strong reaction from friends of Kato.
"The world has gone crazy," the pastor told the congregation through a microphone.
"People are turning away from the scriptures. They should turn back, they should abandon what they are doing. You cannot start admiring a fellow man."
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Villagers then refused to bury the body at which point a group of Kato's friends, most of whom were gay, carried his coffin to the grave and buried it themselves.
Read it all, the whole sorry spectacle of an Anglican
The police authorities say the preliminary investigation indicates that Kato was killed in a robbery, but human rights activists suspect otherwise.
H/T to Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin.
Have Anglicans in Uganda missed the bit about "Thou shalt do no murder"? I read about that somewhere . . . .
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(learn the bloody book, not just seven verses of it)
Yes, Paul (A.), what about the commandment to do no murder? And what about compassion at a funeral with a church full of the grief-stricken?
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Golden Rule? What about loving your neighbor? Or loving your enemy? If I'm not mistaken, all of those teachings are in the Scriptures.
Learn the bloody book, indeed!
Quite unbelieveable. Even after his death they won't leave him alone. And as for the Pastor, has he no compassion, no love, no respect for a fellow human being? To use Kato's funeral as some kind of soap box is, frankly, wicked.
ReplyDeleteTo use Kato's funeral as some kind of soap box is, frankly, wicked.
ReplyDeleteRed, that it is.
Did you read this from Canon Albert Ogle?
ReplyDeleteThis is an outrage and an embarrassment. The world hasn't gone mad, just a certain Anglican priest.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, apparently the ranter was a Lay Reader and not a priest, which does not make the spectacle any less of an embarrassment and outrage.
ReplyDeleteA lay reader because all the clergy were too chicken to do the service. Yay for Bishop of Ssenyonjo - let's make him ABC
ReplyDelete...let's make him ABC
ReplyDeleteOh, that we could!
As I said at TA (hasn't been posted yet), where the BBC report says "Activists stormed the podium" while the anti-gay minister ranted:
ReplyDeleteGod forgive me, I think I would have, too.
There comes a point, where even the STONES cry out. Justice! Justice! Justice! Justice!
The chaos at the funeral will only draw more attention to the murder. As I've said elsewhere, I believe Kato's death will be a defining moment for the Anglican Communion.
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