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Yesterday morning President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, a longstanding tradition among presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower. The breakfast also drew Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace and husband of recent Arizona shooting victim… This isn’t anti-religion; this is anti-hatred.

The week in religion.

With murder of David Kato, human rights activists’ greatest fear has come to pass.

David Kato was one of 100 homosexuals whose name, address, and photo had been published in a Ugandan paper urging readers to kill them.

I almost feel sorry for David Bahati. Almost.

A photo of one of the few Uganda clergy who ministers to gays and lesbians appeared under the headline “Hang Them.”

American evangelicals have helped cultivate the homophobic atmosphere in Uganda that has begun to translate into violence.

RD talks to a Ugandan LGBT-rights activist about the effect of the US religious right on Ugandan attitudes toward LGBT people.

The false story seems to have been spread by an estranged reverend.

Will the Anglican Communion step up and condemn the violence despite talk of a schism?