From 5 to 8 March 2009, a workshop organised by the Family Life Network, led by Ugandan
Stephen Langa, and entitled "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda" took place in
Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
[23] The workshop featured three US evangelical Christians:
Scott Lively, an author who has written several books opposing homosexuality;
Caleb Lee Brundidge, a self-professed
former gay man who conducts sessions to heal homosexuality; and
Don Schmierer, a board member of
Exodus International, an organisation devoted to promoting "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ".
[24][25] The theme of the conference, according to
The New York Times, was the "
gay agenda": "how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how 'the gay movement is an evil institution' whose goal is 'to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity' ".
[21] Kapya Kaoma, an
Anglican priest from
Zambia, was in attendance and reported on the conference. Lively asserted in his workshops that legalizing homosexuality would be akin to accepting child molestation and bestiality. He also claimed that gays threaten society by causing higher divorce rates, child abuse, and HIV transmission. He said that US homosexuals are out to
recruit young people into homosexual lifestyles.
