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Seattle preacher Abraham Vereide experiences a revelation: Christianity is about helping the strong, not the weak. He sets out to organize an anti-New Deal coalition of Christian businessmen.
Success! Despite accusations of fascist sympathies, one of Vereide&#;s men, Arthur B. Langlie, is elected governor of Washington.
Having established prayer groups of politicians and businessmen across the country, Vereide moves his operation to Washington, DC. Howard Coonley, ultraright president of the National Association of Manufacturers, invites several dozen congressmen to Vereide&#;s Capitol Hill debut.
State Department sends Vereide on a mission to scour Allied prisons for Nazi war criminals willing to switch allegiance from the Führer to Our Father.
Eisenhower reluctantly agrees to come to first National Prayer Breakfast, envisioned by Vereide as annual ritual to consecrate the nation&#;s political leadership for Jesus. Attended by every president since, the breakfast will become the movement&#;s most potent recruiting tool, with foreign leaders invited for face time with US politicians and businessmen. Oil and defense especially well represented.
Senator Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), a leader of the movement Vereid
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"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads” (Leviticus ).*
The news took the world by surprise. The Ugandan government was contemplating capital punishment for persistent homosexual activity. Capital punishment? Such as hanging? Though homosexual acts are already criminalized in Uganda, punishable in certain cases by up to 14 years in prison (which by Western standards seems barbaric enough, especially in the nations where gays can marry one another, adopt children, and join the military, the idea of condemning to death those who practice homosexuality shocked everyone. Many Westerners who oppose the gay lifestyle and gay rights were taken aback. Hanging adults for consensual sex seemed out of the twelfth, not the twenty-first, century.
The legislation, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of , would have imposed new and harsher penalties on homosexual acts, including not only life in prison but death. It would also force citizens to report homosexuals to authorities. Even more disturbing was that religious leaders in Uganda, Christians, favored the bill.
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