From: Don Sands 
Subject: Re: Uganda & Adventist Church
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:47:24 -0500

Don Sands here...

I agree.

I also suspect that much "counselling" has taken place between GC
leadership and Ugandan SDA leadership since the issue first arose
among the members of the world church; i.e. January of this year, I
think.

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Gary Simpson  w=
rote:
> I appreciate the responses. =A0I was not sure if the reference on Martin
> Ssempa's web site was the Seventh-day Adventist Church. =A0I suspected it=
 was,
> but he was not well enough informed to know the correct name of the
> denomination.
>
> To say this situation is =A0problematic, is putting things mildly. =A0Whi=
le the
> article helps establish the official position of the worldwide church, th=
e
> article appears to be stating there could be =A0some problems some circle=
s
> within the Ugandan church. =A0The bill before the legislature in Uganda
> violates decent principles of pastoral counselling, and could have the
> impact of creating a McCarthy-era sense of fear, as everybody checks ever=
y
> closet in the land to see if there are any gays around. =A0Potential pris=
on
> sentences for not reporting gay people to the authorities, and potential
> prison sentences for promoting homosexuality are very ill-conceived. =A0E=
ven
> people advocating acceptance and love of gay people, while not approving =
of
> same-gender sexual relationships, could face prison sentences.
>
> I fail to see anything remotely redemptive about the proposed legislation=

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