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Rabid anti-gay Pastor Martin Ssempa has been accused of promoting homosexual behavior in his home country of Uganda.

Writer Paul Kaliisa claims Ssempa spreads “gayism” through his lectures and gay porn screenings at churches in an article for Uganda’s First Class Magazine. Under the African nation’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was signed into law about two months ago, Ssempa could possibly get jail time for the alleged crime of encouraging homosexual behavior — precisely what he claims to advocate against.

Kaliisa’s harshly worded article reads, in part:

[Ssempa] has on a number of occasions showed gay porn to members of the congregation on a projector. He explains to the Church what the homosexuals do step by step baring all and hiding nothing. Pastor Ssempa has homosexual porn on his laptop and all his gadgets. He almost seems obsessed with it. … Pastor Ssempa easily comes off as Uganda’s number one and strongest fighter homosexuality but in truth, he is Uganda’s number one promoter of the vice. He is promoting the things of these monsters and destroyers of man-kind [all sic].

Prior to the passage of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, engaging in homosexual acts was a crime punishable by 14 years to life in prison, according to CNN.  However, under the new bill, merely being labeled as a supporter of gay rights, or as one who encourages homosexual behavior, can be punished by years in jail.

LGBT activist and blogger Melanie Nathan observed the new allegations against Ssempa, saying this could be the one positive thing to come out of what she calls the “onerous Anti-Gay laws of Uganda.”

“The less we hear about how Martin Ssempa perceives homosexuality with his phoney disgusting and graphic depictions, the better off all gays around the world will be,” Nathan wrote in a commentary on her blog last month. “And if Mr Pooppoo Ssempa ever utters a word about anal sex, sodomy, lesbianism or as they term is [sic] ‘gayism’ again, we have no doubt there will be a knock on his door from the M7 police patrol.”

In 2010, Ssempa made headlines in 2010 when footage surfaced of a hate-filled speech he gave at a church in Uganda, during which he showed graphic gay pornography to a crowd and described acts such as fisting and anal licking and claimed that gays “eat the poo-poo” during sex.

“Showing pornography in church in the presence of minors is twisted homophobic propaganda, where homosexuality is equated to pedophilia and pornography,” Nthateng Mhlambiso, a representative of the African gay rights group Behind the Mask said.

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Carrie Stone