The Center For Constitutional Rights writes today
with the surprising news that notorious anti-gay Ugandan Pastor Martin "Eat Da
Poo Poo" Ssempa is actually a US citizen and is therefore subject to their
subpoena which demands he appear at Scott Lively's trial for crimes against
humanity. From
the
motionfiled in Massachusetts by CCR's client, Sexual Minorities Uganda:
Mr. Ssempa is an anti-gay activist and longtime
associate of Defendant. Mr. Ssempa is known for employing forced outings, and
“homosexual exorcisms,” and showing graphic pornography to his church
congregations, as well as for making threatening statements and taking other
actions, in order to deny the humanity of LGBTI individuals. Mr. Ssempa has
long conspired with Defendant and three others to deprive lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and intersex (“LGBTI”) people of their fundamental
rights. Indeed, from at least 2002, Mr. Ssempa has known and worked closely
with Defendant and others to develop anti-gay strategies and tactics. For
example, as early as 2003, Mr. Ssempa was involved in an attempt to exclude
LGBTI persons from governmental HIV/AIDS prevention programs and policies. In
2007, Ssempa began to publicize the names, photos, and address information of
LGBTI advocates in an attempt to intimidate those persons. Mr. Ssempa also
facilitated Defendant’s communications with the Ugandan Parliament about the
Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which, among other things, criminalized advocacy of
LGBTI rights and provision of various services to LGBTI persons, and provided
that the death penalty be imposed for a second conviction for consensual sex
between adults of the same
gender.
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