{"id":621505,"date":"2010-01-05T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010707886_ugandasgaylegislation.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-05T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:30:30","slug":"ugandas-gay-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/621505","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s gay legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Promoting fear and hatred<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About your report on \u201clife-and-death gay-rights fight\u201d [page one, Jan. 4]: Three evangelicals travel to Uganda, speaking of homosexual persons as \u201cevil and promiscuous\u201d and accusing gays of pursuing a \u201chidden and dark agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They claim to be surprised when they inspire a Ugandan legislator to propose a law which threatens to hang homosexuals. These three are not following Jesus. Pledged to ignorance, they seek to control a part of human life they choose not to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Though your article speaks of them as representatives of the \u201cChristian right,\u201d I say they are not. In place of love, they promote fear and hatred. Into the sunless world they seek, let light shine.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Rev. Brooke Rolston, Bothell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoting fear and hatred About your report on \u201clife-and-death gay-rights fight\u201d [page one, Jan. 4]: Three evangelicals travel to Uganda, speaking of homosexual persons as \u201cevil and promiscuous\u201d and accusing gays of pursuing a \u201chidden and dark agenda.\u201d They claim to be surprised when they inspire a Ugandan legislator to propose a law which threatens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BGh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}