Economic Coercion in Uganda.

Anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda are drawing a backlash from world leaders and organizations (NGO’s). Uganda’s conservative leadership recently passed legislation that punishes overt homosexuality and pro-homosexual propaganda (BBC, February 28, 2014). U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the action “atrocious,” and, “Both he and South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu compared the new laws to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa” (ibid.). In addition, the World Bank has delayed funding to improve the health and wellbeing of Ugandan mothers and infants. The irony of the World Bank’s coercive action is that while the Bank condemns nations that attempt to blackmail their people, it refuses to fund a project to save and improve the lives of Ugandan babies because it disagrees with a law that could negatively affect a small minority of the population, and because the law offends World Bank staff members (ibid.).

As modern nations move further away from God and His laws—that call homosexuality a sin (Leviticus 18:22)—we see prophecies being fulfilled that predicted end-time leaders would cause their people to err by calling good evil, and evil good (Isaiah 3:12; 5:20). The laws of God were designed to prevent this “sick” situation (Isaiah 1:5) and benefit those with the courage to live by those laws. To learn more about God’s world-changing laws, read our free booklet The Ten Commandments.