Religion Dispatches: Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa
PRA senior researcher Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma pens an op-ed for Religion Dispatches. While LGBTQI people and allies in America enjoyed a hard-fought victory in last month’s Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, the reaction overseas has been far uglier. U.S. conservative Evangelicals have been leveraging the decision to further attack LGBTQI Africans, and African religious and political leaders are using the ruling as a smoke screen to cover corruption and economic woes in their countries.