David Blakeslee ~ I thought other participants in C street had condemned the bill…and I don’t think a direct connection to the bill can be demonstrated, or even inferred.

It can easily be inferred. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) used to campaign on three issues in Oklahoma (I should know I was there), it was simply ‘god, guns, and gays.’ He might have been for the first two, but he was vehemently against the latter. You can also gauge Inhofe’s feeling by something he said 3 or 4 years ago. It was something to the effect that ‘there has never been a recorded instance of homosexuality/homosexual relationship in his (immediate) family’ or that he hires openly-gay staffers (I remember finding it odd that he used the word recorded). Inhofe is an active member of the Fellowship/Family. He has made it clear that he has taken Uganda under his wing and travelled there at least 20 times on ‘missionary trips’ (I might add I think that was on the government’s dime). It can be assumed that Inhofe then took under his wing one of the first Ugandans to come to the Fellowship, David Bahati, who wrote the bill.

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Certainly, Inhofe probably never had anything good to say about gays or lesbians. Likely, he might have commiserated with Ugandans about not having sodomy laws in the States after Lawrence v. Texas and been happy that Uganda still had them to ‘keep the gays down.’ It has also been intimated by Jeff Sharlet that Inhofe may have been in Uganda and at the Parliament when the Bahati bill was introduced.

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Now if that is not at least inference, I don’t know what is.

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