The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 that was recently tabled in parliament.
Saying that the media is openly biased and anti-gay, the community wants activists and evangelists worldwide to speak out against the “criminal and inhumane” Bill and write to the Association of Evangelicals in Africa.
On the Internet, the debate seems to focus on evangelism in and outside Africa and the role evangelists are playing or should play as the Bill awaits presidential assent to become a law.
Many people on a Facebook group formed by Dr Warren Throckmorton, an associate professor at Grove City College, do not approve of homosexuality, though they believe Christianity teaches freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.
