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• Video: Rachel Maddow Show covers the Fellowship Foundation’s opposition to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

  
  Warren Throckmorton — Authority: 557
  I didn’t see the link so it will be hard for viewers to find it, but the guest post by Jeff Sharlet made the Rachel Maddow Show tonight. Have a look for yourself: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy As I note here , the prospects for the February, 2010 National ...
  2 days ago

• "Jesus plus nothing" - Jeff Sharlet on his book, The Family

  
  mavenandmeddler — Authority: 131
  The Family, which I’m now reading, just may be one of the most frightening and enlightening books I’ve ever read. Wow, there’s a statement. But, it’s true. Free market fundamentalist religion nuttiness combined with scary imperial ambition. I find myself shaking my head in almost disbelief as I read ...
  2 days ago

• The Fellowship (aka The Family) Opposes Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill: Guest post by Jeff Sharlet

  
  Warren Throckmorton — Authority: 557
  [Author Jeff Sharlets appearance on National Public Radio elevated the story of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill to an important level of public awareness. One controversial element of Jeffs reporting was his connection of the Ugandan legislators who introduced the bill to the Fellowship Foundation (aka ...
  3 days ago

• Say Hello to Ugandas Kill the Gays Bill: An Official Introduction

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  And so it arrives, with the most harshest penalties back on the table: Ugandas Kill The Gays bill has been introduced in Parliament by lawmaker David Bahati. And despite word from Ethics Minister James Nsaba Buturo that the death penalty and life imprisonment sentences were being abandoned , Bahatis bill includes ...
  5 days ago

• The Curious Timing of Rick Warrens Attack on Ugandas Kill The Gays Bill

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  Were not sure how far Rick Warrens message is going, given its been seen just over 300 times so far, a fully day after it was uploaded to YouTube. And while were pleased to see the hate leader Warren come out against Ugandas Kill The Gays bill, this video message is as much about salvaging his reputation as it is ...
  1 week ago

• Rachel Maddow puts the Ugandan Kill the Gays bill and The Family on Blast

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 488
  Last night, Rachel Maddow talked to Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. If you dont know, The Family are GOPers who run C Street, a political bible study group or as I call it, a religious version of the Hellfire Club. This group may be responsible for ...
  1 week ago

• Grassley unfamiliar with plan to execute gay Ugandans

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 625
  Responding to calls from gay-rights activists to denounce an anti-homosexuality law being considered in the African nation of Uganda, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he is not a member of that country’s parliament and is unfamiliar with the particulars of the law, an aide to the Republican lawmaker told The Iowa ...
  1 week ago

• SHOCK: Uganda Dropping Death Penalty + Life Sentences For Gays

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  After international media attention and criticism of the American religious leaders and politicians involved in Ugandas proposed "kill the gays" bill, lawmakers there are planning on dropping the death penalty and life imprisonment punishments. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us ...
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• More detail on the Fellowship Foundation relationship to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill

  
  Warren Throckmorton — Authority: 557
  Jeff Sharlet on Rachel Maddow: The Family and the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill. On December 1 , I addressed the issue of the Family’s influence on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. At that time, I reported the following information: To explore these issues, I spoke via email with the Director of Cornerstone ...
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• NEWS: Ted Haggard Resurrects His Ministry

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 415
  Much to the surprise of his colleagues, evangelical pariah Ted Haggard has returned to his ministry. In 2006, Haggard received nation-wide attention for a sex and drugs scandal that shocked the nation. As a result of the scandal, Haggard resigned from his prestigious positions as the senior pastor of New Life Church ...
  1 week ago

• VIDEO: Jeff Sharlet Details U.S. ‘Christian’ Support for Uganda’s Antigay Genocide

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 596
  MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and journalist Jeff Sharlet on Monday discussed Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexuality Bill,” which would execute sexually active LGBT and HIV-positive Ugandans and imprison, for three years, any relative, pastor, or doctor who failed to report an LGBT person to police within 24 hours. Sharlet ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dangerous Right Wing Cult, The Family, Involved In Move To Exterminate Gays In Uganda

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 610
  Headquarters of a lethal cancer in the heart of our nations capital If you visit us here at DWT from time to time, you may recall how excited I was earlier in the year about Nanci Griffiths new album, The Loving Kind , especially because I learned all about a Virginia couple, Richard and Mildred Loving , who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is The Family behind the Anti-Homosexuality Bill?

  
  Warren Throckmorton — Authority: 557
  Last week on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jeff Sharlet reported that The Fellowship Foundation (aka The Family) supports an organization in Uganda called Cornerstone Development which, according to Sharlet, is linked with the main government officials behind the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. Is this accurate? According to ...
  2 weeks ago

• And Rachel Was All, WTF Is Going On In Uganda?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  Oh hey, Rach, we were wondering when Obama and Afghanistan would let up to give you some time to squeeze in some Uganda gay coverage! Like explaining how Americas leading faith-based bigots are shaping possible genocide of Ugandas queers . CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Their blood shall be upon them’

  
  InterstateQ.com — Authority: 116
  There’s a lot of talk here recently over a proposed anti-gay death penalty law in Uganda. Activists and news organizations have linked the legislation’s Ugandan proponents to several high-profile American religious leaders and politicians. The law, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, would make gay sex a crime ...
  2 weeks ago

• i dont know if this story is true or not

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 446
  (the part about the family being involved that is). i dont care if its true or not. what i DO care about is EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL in ALL COUNTRIES. and TO STOP THE FAMILY . i think we ALL must band together and expose this group of religious soft terrorists. yes, i think theyre terrorists. they are working ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exporting terror

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 477
  There’s really no other way to describe this : The formerly secret Christianist nationalist group called the Family now has members in other countries who are doing real damage: GROSS: Let’s talk about The Family’s connection to Uganda, where there’s a, really a draconian anti-gay bill that has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• "The Family" and Stupak, Pitts, Heath Shuler and Mike McIntyre: Must-listen interview

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 141
  The Family is one of the most frightening political organizations I have heard of. It grew out of 1930s roots of union-busting and a desire to foster "Totalitarianism for Christ" after the predicted fall of Democracy. Today the group is on the forefront of the conservative side of "the culture wars"--anti-gay ...
  3 weeks ago

• C Street “Family” behind Uganda’s death penalty for gays?

  
  Inside, Looking Out — Authority: 121
  Interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , discussed the connection between the Family and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act , which prescribes the death penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” Mr. SHARLET: Well, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• C Street “Family” behind Uganda’s death penalty for gays?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 153
  Interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , discussed the connection between the Family and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act , which prescribes the death penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” Mr. SHARLET: Well, the ...
  3 weeks ago

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