A bill now in front of the Ugandan legislature would lead to life imprisonment for gay sex, and death for those having same sex relations if they are HIV positive or having sex with someone under 18. Heterosexuals would have no such restrictions. This law, which would also criminalize any human rights organizing for LGBT rights, could be passed any day.

The campaign for the bill is being led by two friends of Rick Warren's: Archbishop Henry Orombi and Pastor Martin Sempa. And in March 2008, Pastor Warren told his Ugandan friends soon after he got off the plane that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and not a human right. The context was his support of Ugandan Anglicans in their boycott of the worldwide Anglican meeting at Lambeth over the issue of gay ordination.