Promoting fear and hatred
About your report on “life-and-death gay-rights fight” [page one, Jan. 4]: Three evangelicals travel to Uganda, speaking of homosexual persons as “evil and promiscuous” and accusing gays of pursuing a “hidden and dark agenda.”
They claim to be surprised when they inspire a Ugandan legislator to propose a law which threatens to hang homosexuals. These three are not following Jesus. Pledged to ignorance, they seek to control a part of human life they choose not to understand.
Though your article speaks of them as representatives of the “Christian right,” I say they are not. In place of love, they promote fear and hatred. Into the sunless world they seek, let light shine.
— Rev. Brooke Rolston, Bothell