Uganda's notorious "eat da poo poo" Pastor Martin Ssempa, who infamously tells national audiences that the preferred sexual practice of gay men is eating human feces, has been charged with attempting to blackmail another pastor.
The investigation reportedly began last year when allegations involving Pastor Robert Kayanja of Kampala's Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral surfaced, but those claims were later retracted, and now Ssempa and others are themselves being investigated.
Uganda's New Vision news website reports on Dec 30 that Pastors Ssempa, Solomon Male, Michael Kyazze and Bob Kayiira are supposed to appear in court on January 4. Also to appear are Anita Kyomuhendo, a State House employee, and one David Mukalazi. Two city advocates, Henry Ddungu and David Kaggwa, who were originally charged along with the six, were later dropped from the charge sheet due to lack of evidence.
According to Uganda's Daily Monitor website, Sempa is accused of hiring one Robson Matovu to blackmail Kayanja. The court heard that Male reportedly gave Matovu a signed and stamped affidavit implicating Kayanja while Kayanja's 19-year-old accuser Samson Mukisa was reportedly promised necessities on condition that he would speak publicly on how Kayanja had sodomised him.
Local media reports quoted a police report indicating that complaints of sodomy against Kayanja did not reveal any evidence the offences. “In retracting their statements, the complainants said they had been mobilised to make false accusations against Kayanja in order to tarnish his name,” reads a report.
This development comes after various international headlines Ssempa has recently made regarding his strong support of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill that would make same-sex sexual relations punishable by life imprisonment or death, and anyone who doesn't report a known homosexual within 24 hours will be subject to imprisonment.
Ssempa is also widely known for showing and giving graphic descriptions of what he thinks gay sex is at his Ugandan church to "horrify" his audience.
Meanwhile, Jim Burroway, editor of the Box Turtle Bulletin blog, which has been following the developments of the proposed bill in Uganda very closely, notes that the rivalries between the pastors are "so complex that it takes some diagramming to keep it all straight" as well as the implications of this story in the context of Uganda’s current political climate.
“Public charges of sodomy are a common way to settle political and other scores in Uganda. Should the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill become law with its death penalty and other heightened penalties for advocacy on behalf of LGBT people or failure to report gay people to police, such conspiracies will increase and carry far greater dangers. The bill will mean that no one will be safe, including straight people.”
"We Do Not Want This Sickness. Eat Da Poo Poo."
Pastor Martin Ssempa says as he demonstrates fisting and rimming,
and shows graphic images of gay sex on a computer
to a roomful of journalists and religious leaders:
To watch Missionaries of Hate, a 40-minute film by Vanguard's
Mariana van Zeller which documents the influence of US
evangelical Christians on Uganda's anti-gay bill, click here.
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I think that man is full of "da poo poo" and gets his kicks from "da poo poo". Scat boy, scat! You can't fool us.
He obviously hasn't the faintest idea about the teachings of his professed religion. Nor, come to that, any perception of how civilized human beings should behave!
If anyone wonders how I can be an agnostic, stories like this are part of the answer. The other (much larger) part of it is just empiricism and logic, but things like this really make me actively despise organized religion.
He must be a FAKE pastor who only searches for popularity and money.
Also ... Christian used to avoid using "condom", instead had "anal" sex method to prevent pregnancy in the ancient time... so what is the different between anal sex with man and woman ? they both are the same hole ? ..
Dear Pastor... you already failed becoming a good pastor, you also fail to become a movie director and you also fail as graphic media instructor only to find out you could not directed the exact action between a tingus meet the lingus.... how embarassing.....FAIL ! totally!
The problem I have with organised religion is that it is so open to abuse and corruption. When you cannot question something, or even mock something, when you hold it to be "from god", when it is full of ambiguous laws and teachings, you have a system where those in charge can twist and interpret to suit their own very human biases and needs - whether these be financial, egoistical, sociopathic or righteous (by their own definition).
And the believers, the flock, by default tend to quietly accept (and thereby tacitly approve) of those actions because they cannot or dare not question something supposedly directed from god.
And when you have a large enough base of sheep, and where these sheep then find work in secular government, you suddenly find that democracy itself has been subverted where the majority can and do impeded on the rights of a minority.
And thus you have a fucked up society. Underpinned by the dangers and flaws of organised religion. It is human nature. It has nothing to do with god.
Is this bashing religion? Or pointing out a real social threat to our civilisation? One that can be easily ameliorated - by making it OK to question, mock and openly discuss religious beliefs and how they affect the wider society.
same goes for religion.
when we see religion being used as a mean to oppress someone, we have to take a look at the person who is carrying the banner (not the Prophet. what i mean here is the person who is leading the oppression). if the person is morally, mentally, and ethically sound, then something is wrong with the religion. if it is otherwise, we should focus the guns on the person, not the religion itself.
religion on its own is neither harmful nor beneficial. it is just like a gun, or a fork, or a samurai sword. but in the hands of a lunatic, it is more dangerous than any weapon of mass-destruction.
sekian, assalamualaikum :)
Individual belief and ethics can be okay, and I'd never presume to say that an individual's personal belief in a god or gods is bad. But as soon as it becomes codified and ritualized into an organized religion, it can only be judged on the least of its worth. After all, Ssempa didn't invent the anti-gay mindset, he learned it from the way established religion manifests its hatred of gay people.
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