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MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:40 PM Jul 2012

Conservatives’ other Kenyan obsession

"A new report exposes the extent of the U.S. religious right's meddling in Africa's sexual politics

Stateside, the warm ties between U.S. evangelicals and conservative African clerics are visible only in glimpses: the footage of Sarah Palin’s Assembly of God church hosting a minister who cast out demons, the notorious Kill the Gays bill in Uganda. But a new report casts light on how, with relatively little funding, American social conservatives are trying to establish their anti-gay, anti-abortion rights and anti-contraception view across the continent – and often succeeding."

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/conservatives_other_kenyan_obsession/

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