Yesterday, services were held at both the Anglican and Roman Catholic shrines in Namugongo, led by bishops from both Churches. Other similar events will be held in the coming days, leading up to national commemorations on Sunday, say news reports out of Uganda.

A report issued by the Anglican Communion News Service said, "We need to ask God to forgive us because we have sinned in different ways. The martyrs suffered because of their faith..." but no mention was made of the fact that they died because they refused the homosexual advances of the king.

From Wikipedia: "From 1885--1887 many Christians were put to death in Uganda by King Mwanga II. Many of them were officials in the court of Catholics, as well as a number of Anglicans, were put to death, some by the sword, others by burning alive. The ire of the king was particularly inflamed against the Christians because they refused to accede to demands to participate in homosexual unions."

Of course, the ACNS spins it so they won't offend Anglican and Episcopal sodomites who insist God has changed His mind about pansexual behavior...and because TEC pays a boatload of money to keep the Anglican Communion Office open in London. Thou shalt not offend Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, who writes out checks to the Anglican Consultative Council, the official mouthpiece of the Anglican Communion.

The martyrs went to their graves because they refused the homosexual advances of the king and for that they died.

Others beheaded or burned alive in his court by Mwanga II, King of Buganda, were Bishop James Hannington (3 September 1847 -- 29 October 1885), an English Anglican missionary who was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa; through in recent times to Janani Jakaliya Luwum (c. 1922 -- 17 February 1977), who was the archbishop of the Church of Uganda from 1974 to 1977 and one of the most influential leaders of the modern church in Africa. (He was arrested in February 1977 and died shortly after in a contrived "car crash", though his bullet ridden body later attested to him having been murdered at the behest of the then-President Idi Amin.)

Those being commemorated particularly this weekend -- as happens every year in Uganda on what is a national day of observance, are, however, those killed in 1866 by Mwanga II in circumstances that still deeply affect the country and region on account of the very particular and predatory sexual context of the King's actions.

Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, the Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, speaking at the Catholic shrine, echoed the call, saying: "What is our purpose as the Church when there are all these murders and kidnaps? We call upon security organs to quickly bring this mess to its end. We are living in an evil world and we need to help each other and encourage ourselves to repent."

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