Movement Behind Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill Organizing in Newark

[Are_grits_groceries]

Street by street, block by block, organized by city ward, PrayforNewark's squads of church members are walking their city, praying for residents and businesses. Launched on Martin Luther King Day in 2008, its leaders claim their effort now fields enough volunteers to pray for almost every street in the New Jersey city. Endorsed by Newark's liberal mayor, PrayforNewark would seem a blessing for any city. What could be wrong with prayer ? But the effort is directly tied to an international movement that, as detailed in my new video documentary Transforming Uganda, played a significant role in organizing and inspiring Ugandan politicians who have backed the internationally notorious "kill the gays" bill, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently before Uganda's parliament.

The ecumenical coalition behind PrayforNewark is led by Rev. Bernard Wilks, whose Dominion Fellowship Ministries newsletters for PrayforNewark have repeatedly called for "enemy identification" and a document on the official PrayforNewark web site touts the "Seven Mountains" program which calls upon born-again, charismatic Christians to take dominion over key societal sectors such as business, government, media and education.
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PrayforNewark was founded by Newark suburb resident Lloyd Turner, who in October 2008 spoke at an Argentina conference of the International Transformation Network (ITN), whose CEO Ed Silvoso wrote, in his 2007 book, Transformation: Change the Marketplace and You Change the World, that homosexuality is caused by demon possession and that HIV and AIDS can be cured through faith healing and prayer. According to Silvoso, the entire national police force of the Philippines is being indoctrinated in this ideology.
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In cities, towns and even nations around the globe, ITN is working to integrate government and police with church efforts to achieve dominion over all sectors of society. In Orlando, Florida, and Peoria, Illinois, church initiatives are coordinating their prayer walking campaigns, billed as reducing crime, with local police departments. Orlando's transformation effort, dubbed "Operation Armor-All," was in fact initiated by the head chaplain of Orlando's police department. As stated in a story by Teri Arndt first posted at the web site of Orlando's First Presbyterian church, describing the birth of Operation Armor-All, " Chaplain Wade spoke to the Chaplain Corps and together they came up with the plan. The Chaplains contacted up to 22 churches."

Outside of the United States, such police-church efforts take on an ominous and coercive nature.

There's more: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/1/21/15336/6128/Front_Page/Movement_Behind_Uganda_s_quot_Kill_the_Gays_quot_Bill_Organizing_in_Newark

It is a long article, but it outlines the movement of the International Transformation Network (ITN). The prayer is the innocuous beginning of a much bigger plan by ITN which has ties to the antigay movement in Uganda.

[murielm99]

1. Your article sent me to the Southern Poverty Law Center's

website. I did a search for the International Transformation Network and came up with some interesting results. There were articles about many of the anti-gay black ministers and some of their organizations.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. The SPLC is one group

I give a lot of creedence to. They walk the walk.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

I want to read the whole thing later. I've been at that guy's website. That artwork is sca-ry.

[Shallah Kali]

4. Kick - when a religious group says they want to take over my country I pay attention

:kick: