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Kapya Kaoma

Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma was a Senior Research Analyst at PRA (2008-2018). He was the original researcher to expose the ties between U.S. right-wing evangelicals and the anti-LGBTQ legislation in Uganda, and has testified before Congress and the United Nations. He is the author of “Globalizing the Culture Wars” and “Colonizing African Values,” and appears as an expert voice in the 2013 documentary God Loves Uganda. He received his doctorate in Ethics from Boston University.

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Political Research Associates

Making Anti-Gay Christian Right Views Law, at Home and Abroad

Did you know that the same Christian-right legal organization responsible for drafting the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriage in the U.S., also supports the constitutional criminalization of homosexuality in Kenya and Zimbabwe and has now set its sight on Brazil, home of the world’s largest LGBTQ Pride parade?
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Political Research Associates

Major Christian Right Actors Seek to Criminalize Homosexuality in Africa

On Friday, Andy Kroll at Mother Jones reported that Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow, the father-son team leading the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) — high-profile social conservatives and advisers and supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, are working to overcome the candidate’s enthusiasm gap within the right-wing evangelical community.
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The Culture Wars Come to Zambia

Intercepting the International Human Rights Agenda
On a visit to Zambia in February 2012, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on African countries to stop treating LGBT people as less than human or as second class citizens. He explicitly asked Zambian lawmakers to stop discriminating against people on the basis of sexual orientation.
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