However one sorts out the question of American evangelism’s culpability (at least some responsibility seems to me assignable, their anti-gay rhetoric having been in so many instances poisonous and hateful), it remains the case that Ugandan nationalism, at least in the form of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, is squalid and bankrupt. These decidedly traditionalist and outspoken family values champions have put themselves at arm’s length from what is arguably a sub-genre of the ethnic cleansing campaign and so too the American culture warriors Richard Cohen and Rick Warren. In March 2009 Caleb Lee Brundidge, Don Schmierer and Scott Lively (who prefers the Russian legislation to the Ugandan model) spoke at a Ugandan conference which is sometimes cited as the inspiration for the anti-homosexuality bill.
The case of these “American religious extremists” is a touch more complicated.
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