Ariel Rubin of Huffington Post recently reported on Martin Ssempa–of Uganda’s “death penalty for homosexuals” fame. Apparently, Ssempa is at it again.

Ssempa called the conference to announce his plan to mobilize more than one million people to march on February 17th in Kampala to show the world just how strong support is for the proposed ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’. “We want to give a postcard that he [President Museveni] can send to his friend Barack Obama,” he says. However Ssempa, clearly relishing the media’s spotlight, takes the opportunity to begin a lengthy digression on his deep-seated feelings about homosexuality, pedophilia and the “broken” West’s decadent influence. Most of what he says might be laughable if his influence wasn’t so far-reaching and the message so deeply offensive. As he repeatedly boasts, 95% of Ugandans are against homosexuality, “this is democracy at work.”

Okay, we get it. Ssempa is a Christian and feels obligated to be against homosexuals. Not a new narrative. But what about this press conference got the crowd so stirred up?

I want to say homosexuals eat each other’s poop. Homosexuals stick their hands into their rectum. Homosexuals stick all sorts of deviant sexual things into their rectum. I want to show you this is from their website. So the first picture that I want to show you, you can see this man has just eaten the other person’s poo poo and is rubbing it on his mouth, and I’m going to ask that we print for each of you a photocopy of this story so you get it fully.

Then, of course, they are grabbing each other’s gentials, that is level number one, touching each other, grabbing each other. Then number three, now they are licking eachother’s anus and are licking poop. And they call poo poo, chocolate. You see it is a change of words. I want you to see, Sheikh please forgive me but I want these people to see, they say a picture is worth one thousand words. This is a man eating the other person’s poo poo, can you see that one? Please from BBC, I want you to tell them, we know what they do.

Apparently during this diatribe, it became obvious that Ssempa has been doing quite a bit of research on the topic of scat-eating and whatnot. Of course, he has probably not introduced a bill calling for the death penalty of heterosexual couples doing the same thing but apparently that is beside the point. The idea that all homosexuals engage in what Ssempa calls “poo licking” is ridiculous. We all know that it’s easier to dismiss an entire group for the actions of a few.

Some would argue that the actions of Christians like Ssempa and Robertson would qualify for that same point–that Christians shouldn’t be judged on the words of their extremists. The only problem is, the Christian Bible clearly demonstrates the types of hatred that people like Ssempa and Robertson profess. It would be nice if the more sane Christians dominated the landscape but unfortunately they do not.

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