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Sarah Pulliam Bailey, at CT<\/a>, published yesterday both a report and an interview, and I\u2019ve clipped a bit. The report focuses on Ugandan Christians who want the Western countries and Christians to stay out of Ugandan legal decisions\u2026 thoughts? Do you agree with these Ugandan suggestions that interference is colonialist? How do you think Western Christians should \u201cinterfere\u201d with Ugandan policy?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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T<\/strong>he proposed anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda has created tension between American Christians who have condemned the legislation and Ugandan Christians who don\u2019t want to see homosexuality become an acceptable practice.<\/p>\n

Several<\/a>\u00a0American<\/a>\u00a0pastors<\/a>\u00a0and<\/a>\u00a0leaders<\/a>\u00a0have condemned proposed legislation in Uganda that, if passed in its proposed version, would punish homosexual acts between adults\u2013including touching \u201cwith the intent of committing the act of homosexuality\u201d\u2013with life imprisonment. The punishment for \u201cserial offenders,\u201d homosexual sex with minors or the disabled, or homosexual sex while being HIV-positive, is death.<\/p>\n

Rt. Rev. Dr. David Zac Niringiye, assistant bishop of Kampala in the Church of Uganda, says that American Christians should not make such public pronouncements on the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe international community is behaving like they can\u2019t trust Ugandans to come up with a law that is fair. No! No! That is not fair!\u201d he\u00a0told\u00a0Christianity Today<\/span><\/a>. \u201cWhen the Western governments or Western churches or Christians speak loudly about the legitimacy or illegitimacy of this bill, you actually begin to fuel the idea that homosexuality is the product of Western culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The reaction from Christians in America creates tension for Ugandan Christians, says the Rev. Dr. Christopher Byaruhanga, professor of historical theology at Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology at Uganda Christian University.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see there\u2019s a kind of imperialism and a kind of relativism from the West,\u201d said Byaruhanga, who is doing a fellowship for a year at the John Jay Institute in Colorado Springs. \u201cThey don\u2019t understand our ethics in the country of Uganda and they are trying to impose what they believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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