“We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are — whether it’s here in the United States or, as Hillary mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.”

Washington, National Prayer Frühstück.

Die Evangelikalen haben zum Frühstück eingeladen. Nicht irgendwelche Evangelikale, sondern extreme Hardcore-Evangelikale:

The objections are focused on the sponsor of the breakfast, a secretive evangelical Christian network called The Fellowship, also known as The Family, and accusations that it has ties to legislation in Uganda that calls for the imprisonment and execution of homosexuals.

Traditionell nehmen die us-amerikanischen Präsidenten an diesem Frühstück teil und sind meistens voll des Lobes für die Evangelikalen. Klar, wenn man zum Schlemmerfrühstück eingeladen wird, nörgelt man nicht an den Gastgebern und ihren Strippenziehern herum. Barack Obama, sehr zu meiner Überraschung, spielte nicht mit und versalzte den Schwulenhassern die Morgenmahlzeit.

Zunächst durfte die mitgebrachte Hillary Clinton andeuten, was das Missfallen des Präsidenten erregt,

Every time I travel I raise the plight of girls and women and make it clear that we expect to see changes. And I recently called President Museveni, whom I have known through the prayer breakfast, and expressed the strongest concerns about a law being considered at the parliament of Uganda.

dann eröffnete Obama selbst, was er von den evangelikalen Schwulenhasser hält:

We can take different approaches to ending inequality, but surely we can agree to the need to lift our children out of ignorance, to lift our neighbors from poverty. We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it’s unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are, whether it’s here in the United States or, as Hillary mentioned, more extreme and odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

Den Evangelikalen dürfte das Frühstück daraufhin nicht mehr geschmeckt haben.