In spring, 2009, three American fundamentalist preachers took their anti-gay, hate-based road show to Malawi and Uganda. Partly as a result of their sermons to Malawi legislative bodies, two Malawi men were arrested and sentenced to fourteen years hard-time for holding an engagement party for one another. Numbers in the Malawi government at the time said they took encouragement from the American evangelicals as the men were sentenced. Secretary of State Clinton and her counterparts from many western nations condemned the move, kept up the diplomatic pressure and soon the couple were released and they now reside overseas. 

     This week, however, the American ministers' message may have translated to murder. In Uganda, David Kato, that nation's most well-known gay rights activist was murdered in his home, having returned recently from self-defensive, self-imposed exile from South Africa. Mr. Kato had received many hundreds of death threats. The New York Times reports today that Ugandan papers, subsequent to the American preachers' tour, were clear about what should happen to gays. Its headline read, "Hang Them".