cousins can marry cousins in the US.
and those ugandan laws were encouraged/cowritten by americans.
"Swingin'... Eyes closed just swingin'..."
From a documentary that I saw it was white American evangelical Christians.
From 5 to 8 March 2009, a workshop took place in
Kampala, the capital of Uganda, that featured three American evangelical Christians:
Scott Lively, an author who has written several books opposing homosexuality; Caleb Lee Brundidge, a self-professed
former gay man who conducts sessions to heal homosexuality; and Don Schmierer, a board member of
Exodus International, an organisation devoted to promoting "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ".[sup]
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[18][/sup] The theme of the conference, according to
The New York Times, was the "
gay agenda": "how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how 'the gay movement is an evil institution' whose goal is 'to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity' ".[sup]
[15][/sup] An
Anglican priest from
Zambia named Kapya Kaoma was in attendance, and reported on the conference.
Ugandan Stephen Langa organised it, and was supported by Lively, who asserted in his workshops that homosexuality was akin to child molestation and bestiality, and causes higher rates of divorce and HIV transmission. Lively's emphasis was on the cohesion of the African family, that he said was being threatened by "homosexuals looking to recruit youth into their ranks". According to Kaoma, during the conference, one of the thousands of Ugandans in attendance announced, "[The parliament] feels it is necessary to draft a new law that deals comprehensively with the issue of homosexuality and...takes into account the international gay agenda... Right now there is a proposal that a new law be drafted."[sup]
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Google "American Evangelicals in Uganda" and you'll find tons of articles and videos about said conference.
Just in case anyone is really naive enough to think these African laws are just popping up now because Africa suddenly became obsessed with the "gay marriage movement."
Almost no one in Africa is fighting for same sex marriage. People are happy enough to just be allowed to be. But when you're losing a fight on one front (Utah) you start scrambling.