U.S. Conservatives Are Funding Anti-gay Jihad in Africa

Bob Felton at Civil Commotion has a post that among other things looks at the rising tide of homophobia in Africa that comes to the conclusion that the anti-gay religious extremists in the USA are behind the upsurge and are funding the draconian laws now being proposed in nations like Uganda. Among the leaders in this foul agenda is the Institute for Religion & Democracy. The report on what's happening in Africa among other things concludes:
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The Institute on Religion & Democracy is the organization named in “Globalizing the Culture Wars” as the prime mover in the the upsurge of harsh anti-gay legislation in Africa, so I went to their Web site and looked around.

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Bob has a link to the full report here. One should not be fooled by the word "democracy" in the name of the organization. While IRD describes itself as "an ecumenical alliance of U.S. Christians working to reform their churches' social witness, in accord with biblical and historic Christian teachings, and to contribute to the renewal of democratic society at home and abroad." what it is really pushing for is Christo-fascist theocracy and a subjugation of the civil laws to IRD's reactionary, hate driven form of religion. Among its preferred targets are gays and non-Christians. The organization - like so many Christianist groups - purports to have "experts" that back up its agenda, but as so often is the case behind the fancy titles bestowed upon themselves there are no legitimate credentials. Besides exporting hate and intolerance overseas, IRD seeks to turn back progressive movement in U.S. denominations that have moved away from an ignorant, fundamentalist form of Christianity.