December 5th, 2009
That’s what they think of us. From Uganda’s Sunday Monitor, a “man of God” has this to say about the “kill gays” bill now before Parliament:
A senior member of the Anglican Church has thrown support behind the government move in a bid to phase homosexuality out of the country.
Rev. Michael Esakan Okwi said on Friday that not even “cockroaches” who are in the “lower animal kingdom” engaged in homosexual relations.
“What about the human being who was made in God\’s image?” he asked at the funeral service in All Saints Cathedral – Kampala for Tom Omongole, the former Resident District Commissioner of Bukedea.
They don’t even see us as human beings, let along “made in God’s image.” No wonder the proposal to kill off their LGBT population is going down so easily. It’s a lot easier to kill cockroaches than people.
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mojnun
December 5th, 2009
“Cockroaches” was what the Hutus called the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Perhaps Pastor Okwi has the same fate in mind for Uganda lesbians and gays?
Lynn David
December 5th, 2009
I think he stole it from that Mexican Cardinal/Bishop of a few years ago. But it just shows up how ignorant this man is. Only more evolved animals exhibit homosexual behaviors.
Pete
December 6th, 2009
Ironic that it’s not all that long since Africans were considered to be less than human; cockroaches, if you will; reduced to the status of a commodity, exported and imported.
Donnchadh
December 6th, 2009
It is offensive and ignorant, harking back to pre-Darwinian science, to say that cockroaches or indeed any organisms are “lower animals”.
Polarbear
December 6th, 2009
So much for the missionary work of the Church of England…
RomeoandJoe
December 6th, 2009
At least we’re not Canibals (remember that outstanding Ugandan Christian Idi Amin??)…and I know some gay cockroaches…and their usual habitat is under the skirts of clergymen.
Frank
December 9th, 2009
Idi Amin was a Muslim. “Amin” is Arabic for “trusted.”
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