New Ugandan Martyrs?

The above rag is apparently a very small publication in Uganda, but it has already had a large impact on a country where homophobia runs rampant. According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, in the week since this "Rolling Stone" published the photos and addresses of gay rights activists and a call to have them hanged, four of the activists have been assaulted and several others are now in hiding. The Ugandan government has sanctioned the newspaper, not for running such an inflammatory story accusing gays of recruiting children, but because it failed to register with the government. Once they complete the paperwork these muckrackers will be allowed to keep publishing.
One of those pictured on the front page is retired Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, Integrity USA's contact in the African nation. One activist had his home attacked by neighbors throwing rocks.
Uganda, according to many of the LGBT activists there, was not a friendly environment, but wasn't this bad before the evangelicals from the USA such as Exodus International began spreading the lies about "the cure" for homosexuality. That led to the bill that proposed to execute some LGBT people. The death penalty legislation has been shelved, but clearly the effects are lingering.
I am reminded that as backward as things can be for LGBT people in this country, I am safer here than in other parts of the world. My prayers for my brothers and sisters who live in places where they face real danger and death. God make haste to help them.