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Red Pepper‘s Front Page Witch Hunt For Ugandan Activist Moses Mworeko

Moses Mworeko, a gay Ugandan, helped lend a voice to his LGBT brothers and sisters there by taking part in The American Prayer Hour, a response to the anti-gay American Prayer Breakfast hosted by The Family. At the time, Moses wore a bag over his head to protect his identity, but since dropped the mask and let his face be shown in public after appearing in an advocacy video for Truth Wins Out. How did his home country’s notoriously tyrannical newspaper Red Pepper respond? With this front page edition headlined, “This Gay Monster Raped Boys In School, But Failed To Bonk Wife.” So that’s pretty disgusting.

The video Moses made for TWO in August:

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