Wednesday, July 7, 2010

UGANDA: Christian gay advocacy worker found decapitated


From ELO-

Ugandan police have identified the severed head of a young Christian and gay rights worker, according to a blog post from the Rev. Colin Coward, a Church of England priest and director of U.K.-based gay and lesbian advocacy group Changing Attitude.

A search team had been looking for a missing pro-gay priest, the Rev. Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga, when they discovered the decapitated head of Pasikali Kashusbe in a pit latrine on a farm in Makindye Sabagabo, Wakiso District, where he worked.

Kashusbe was a volunteer worker for Integrity Uganda, a group that campaigns for gay rights. He went missing in early June during the Ugandan Martyrs Day commemorations.

Coward said in his blog post that a mutilated torso, which was found a few days earlier less than a mile from the farm, likely belonged to Kashusbe.

Nsubuga has been missing for three weeks since he delivered a speech at St. Paul's Church, Kanyanya, in support of homosexuality in Uganda.

Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, chairperson of Integrity Uganda who was excommunicated by the Church of Uganda in 2006 for his support of homosexuals, lamented Kashusbe's murder as "absurd," adding in Coward's post that "clearly, the values of tolerance and social inclusion are sadly being sacrificed on the altar of state ignorance, ineptness and good old colonial stupidity."

More here-

http://www.episcopal-life.org/81808_123315_ENG_HTM.htm

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