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FRC Spox: Gays 'Bitterly Attacked' Uganda, Forcing Homosexuality 'Down The Throats Of Other Countries'

Several years ago, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins strongly defended a Uganda bill(link is external), which at the time included a measure making homosexuality in some cases a capital offense. While the provision was dropped, the Ugandan government still increased the draconian penalties punishing people for being.

So it came as no surprise that on yesterday’s edition of “Washington Watch,” FRC senior fellow Peter Sprigg — who once called for the U.S. to “ export homosexuals(link is external)” — criticized Randy Berry, the Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons, for reportedly(link is external) traveling to travel to Uganda and Jamaica, where homosexuality is also criminalized(link is external).

Sprigg said that Berry and the Obama administration are trying to “force this American-style homosexual agenda down the throats of other countries” such as Uganda, “which is one of the countries which has been most bitterly attacked by homosexual activists around the world.”