UGANDA: Gays want to kill me, says Archbishop Orombi

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UGANDA: Gays want to kill me, says Archbishop Orombi

By Chris Ahimbisibwe 
New Vision online
http://www.newvision.co.ug 
July 9, 2008

Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi yesterday said he fears for his life because of the campaign he has waged against homosexuals.

"Nowadays, I don't wear my collar when I am in countries which have supporters of homosexuals," he said while addressing Christians at Kitunga archdeaconry, West Ankole diocese in Ntungamo district.

"I am forced to dress like a civilian because those people are dangerous. They can harm anybody who is against them. Some of them are killers. They want to close the mouth of anybody who is against them." Orombi is among the Anglican archbishops who have led the boycott against the Lambeth Conference, which takes places later this month, over the issue of homosexuality.

The Global Anglican Future Conference, which was held in Jerusalem last month, resolved to form a new movement and broke ties with the authority of Canterbury over the consecration of gay bishops.

Despite the threats, Orombi yesterday continued his anti-gay campaign, asking Christians to pray for him and others who are against homosexuals.

"Homosexuals are agitating that it is a human right. But how can it be a human right for a man to sleep with another man or a woman to marry a woman?" he asked.

"What we need is to wake up and protect our church and children against this practice."

He argued that God created men and women so that they could have children and fill the world so that the generations could continue. "So where do the homosexuals want to get their children?" he asked.

Orombi noted that homosexuals were trying to take advantage of Africa's poverty by making donations, building schools and offering scholarships.

"We should not accept any donation that comes our way and has strings attached. Some people have already fallen victims in Uganda and we need to stop it," the archbishop said.

Bishop Yona Katonene, the bishop of West Ankole diocese, who accompanied the archbishop, said he had received a report that a male teacher in Bushenyi had married a male student.

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CORRECTION TO THIS STORY.
 
VOL has received the following note from a source in Kampala.

Gays not after Orombi's head

Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi yesterday clarified that he did not say gays were planning to kill him or that he fears for his life over his campaign against the practice. This followed reports that the bishop had told Christians at Kitunga in Ntungamo district that he feared for his life over his anti-gay stance. Orombi noted that gays were not only in the church, but were a big movement and some of them were drug addicts, who could kill anybody.

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KAMPALA: Corruption worries Orombi

By Chris Ahimbisibwe 
http://www.newvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=8&newsCategoryId=18&newsId=638147 
July 9, 2008

Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi has decried the high rate of corruption in public offices. "They are cheating the Government. They are given drugs to take to public health centres but they instead deliver them to their private clinics. 

"A lot of money is spent on constructing roads but after two days, they develop potholes," Orombi said.

He made the remarks during a service at Rubaare archdeaconry in Ntungamo district on Monday.

Orombi attributed corruption to moral degeneration, adding that corrupt government officials were pretending to be born-again Christians. 

"They go for Holy Communion but the problem is that people no longer fear God," Orombi noted. 

He was also concerned about the increasing cases of cross-generation sex, defilement and adultery. 

"You are a teacher and you sleep with your student, where is your holiness?" Orombi asked.

In a special prayer he dedicated to the children, the archbishop noted that the young generation could influence change in the country.

He urged parents to protect the youth from danger. "When we send our children to universities, they become victims. In Kampala, children are being kidnapped, sacrificed, aborted and sold out," he said.

The West Ankole Diocese Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Yonah Katoneene, appealed to Christians to seek God's guidance in everything they do. 

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