These GOP leaders wrote a letter to Uganda’s President Museveni.
Five Republican representatives – Chris Smith, Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, Trent Franks and Anh “Joseph” Cao – have written a letter to Ugandan President Yoweri Mouseveni pressing him to stop pending legislation that would severely criminalize homosexuality and sometimes impose the death penalty for homosexual acts.
In the letter, which you can read in full here, the men say their religious faith requires them to oppose the legislation because it contradicts the “foundational Christian belief in the inherent dignity and worth of all men and women.”
This is a good thing and a possible basis for a Congressional resolution.
Add the Catholic Church of Uganda to the mix against the Bahati Bill:
Elisha, suppose you were one of the “unlucky few” who got the short end of the stick and had to battle same-sex attractions. Considering the two great commandments (“Love the Lord your God … and your neighbor as yourself”), how would you want to be loved and treated by your fellow man? Would your worth be in the fact that you were created in the image of God or in your sexuality? Should we all line up to stone you, if you had happened to fall even once?
Your position would have killing image bearers being fine but cursing them not so much.
It is not so clear what the significance is of some of those Old Testament stories. Most are descriptions of events and not prescriptions for now. It all may be clear to you but you have to ignore a lot to get your clarity.
“. . . the men say their religious faith requires them to oppose the legislation because it contradicts the “foundational Christian belief in the inherent dignity and worth of all men and women.”
“Inherent dignity and worth of all men and women”?
There is no Christian foundational principle that affirms the dignity and worth of all men and women. On the contrary, the Bible makes very clear that we are all made of dust, that we all bear the sin of Adam, that God is free to injure and/or kill us here on Earth for any reason He chooses, and that 99% of us will be tortured for all eternity after death. The gospel or “good news” is that a very few can escape torture by accepting the love of Jesus. The lucky few go to Heaven, where they will praise and worship for all eternity, the God who burned everyone else.
Here on Earth, God has authorized Biblical massacres, Biblical systematic forced intercourse, Biblical child killing, Biblical slavery, and of course, Biblical punishment of homosexuality that precisely mirrors the unamended Ugandan legislation. That does not exactly align with the “dignity and worth of all men and women.”
If these men want to oppose the bill, that is their prerogative. But any such objections will not be based on true Christian principles.