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In Uganda, a legislative effort has been launched to execute homosexuals. When asked to speak against it, Rick Warren suddenly becomes highly evasive. Now, Harper’s contributing editor Jeff Sharlet reveals that the figures behind this initiative have close ties to the Family–the shadowy Christianist organization that runs the C Street home now closely linked to three sex scandals involving prominent Republican congressmen.
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