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The pastor using pornography to fan the flames of gay hate in Uganda
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-pastor-using-pornography-to-fan-the-flames-of-gay-hate-in-uganda-1905163.html

The government wants to cool the debate on homosexuality. But influential clergyman Martin Ssempa has other ideas

By Daniel Howden and Barbara Among in Kampala

Saturday, 20 February 2010

The congregation was bigger than normal this week at the Christianity Focus Centre in Kampala. Perhaps numbers had been swelled by the prospect of an unusual kind of show-and-tell fast becoming the mainstay of the Martin Ssempa roadshow.

Uganda's "passionate pastor", as he calls himself, had revelations to share with the 200 or so men, women and children who turned up on Wednesday. His ambition to mark the week with a "million-man march" in support of a parliamentary Bill to further criminalise homosexuality had fallen flat over security concerns. But he had a sideshow quite capable of causing a stir in itself.
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