Mike Jones at Change.org has learned that Ugandan MP David Bahati, who was slated to come to Washington, D.C. to attend next week’s conference of the International Consortium of Governmental Financial Management, will not be permitted entry into the conference....
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Warren Throckmorton confirms that Bahati, author of Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, still thinks he’s going to the conference, but Hadden told Throckmorton via email that “the ICGFM Executive Committee has agreed that his attendance is not consistent with the mission of the organization.”
Sadly, what I said in the past appears to be true. The secular organizations will pressure the leadership in Uganda to remove the pending anti-gay legislation from the agenda, more-so than the religious organizations, which serves to highlight the courage of Ugandan religious leaders like Anglican Bishop Christopher, who, in his retirement, chose to take up the cause of and minister to gay and lesbian persons in the country where "homosexuality is illegal and where gays and lesbians are routinely tormented and harassed". Bishop Christopher stands in opposition to the legislation, unlike certain of his brother Anglican bishops in Uganda.
