Wow. This isn't actually surprising. But, it's very disturbing:
The man running outreach to faith-based communities for Republican Michele Bachmann's nomination campaign has been tied to the key backer of the "Kill the Gays" bill in Uganda.Disturbing, but not surprising.
The Atlantic reports that Peter E. Waldron had tried to be coy about his identity when confronted, at first refusing to provide his name, but journalist Garance Franke-Ruta discovered that the evangelical pastor was once imprisoned in Uganda for a supposed terrorism plot.
A film about Waldron's experience is apparently in the works, titled The Ultimate Price: The Peter E. Waldron Story. While Waldron was in Uganda from 2002 to 2006, the Republican political activist was reportedly arrested with a small weapons cache. The details are murky but he spent more than a month in prison.
The surfacing of this name, tied to Uganda, got people wondering. And it turns out Waldron was spotted by happenstance while visiting the church of staunchly antigay, and dangerous, pastor Martin Ssempa. A journalist with The New Republic, Andrew Rice, bumped into them together while researching an article on evangelicals in the country.
Remember, Bachmann thinks we're akin to Satan. Uganda's First Lady blamed the devil. They are speaking the same language. Are they in cahoots on the "solution," too?
