US Army's "Spiritual Fitness" Campaign and Uganda's "Kill the Gays Bill" Linked

[Joanne98]

Founded in the late 19th Century, the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) is a small international Protestant denomination that has boasted, as one of its active duty chaplains for 2010, an Army Colonel who says he helped introduce into the US Army Field Manual the doctrine that "spiritual fitness" is a component of military readiness. Meanwhile, the CMA's leadership has organizational and financial ties to top leaders in the mounting antigay crusade in Uganda:

Leading prayer and worship at the Christian and Missionary Alliance's upcoming yearly General Council meeting in May 2011 will be Lilburn Alliance Church head pastor Fred Hartley III, whose College of Prayer ministry has funded to the tune of over $11,000 (according to COP's 2007 990 tax form), and is currently fund-raising for, Ugandan Bishop Julius Oyet--one of the professed co-authors of Uganda's "kill the gays bill", which may come before Uganda's parliament after Uganda's February 18th, 2011 elections.

In several conversations with French journalist Dominique Mesmin, who interviewed Oyet for the upcoming documentary Uganda: Killing In The Name... , Mesmin has described to me (and provided a transcript of) his video/audio interview with Julius Oyet in which Oyet told Mesmin about his role in writing and co-planning, with David Bahati, the introduction in Uganda's parliament the "kill the gays bill." Hartley and Oyet are, in turn, mentoring the Anti Homosexuality Bill's lead author and champion in Uganda's parliament, MP David Bahati.



http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/2/1/193713/7994/Front_Page/US_Army_s_quot_Spiritual_Fitness_quot_Campaign_and_Uganda_s_quot_Kill_the_Gays_Bill_quot_Linked

[Fumesucker]

1. K&R, thanks for posting..