In 2009 Senyonjo attended an anti-gay conference from March 5 – 7 , 2009 , titled " Exposing the truth behind homosexuality and the homosexual agenda " , which featured the American activists Scott Lively , Exodus International executive Don Schmierer , and International Healing Foundation representative Caleb Lee Brundidge . Described by Lively as a " nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda " , the conference associated gays with Nazism , child molestation , AIDS and the Rwandan genocide , and has been credited with bringing about unprecedented persecution culminating in the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act , 2014 . Senyonjo described the interaction of conference participants with government officials as leading to the introduction of the bill , and the need for education regarding claims of homosexual recruitment in schools . Senyonjo said " I was at one time accused that I was going to schools and trying to recruit , as it were , people into homosexuality , which is actually blackmail . And you can see , what are the intentions of these people to do this ? ... People who will say this , they have very evil intentions which I do n’t understand . " Senyonjo testified against the anti-gay bill and was part of a delegation to the Speaker of the House to oppose it . He said that it was inhumane , violated the UN Declaration of Human Rights and " the sacred bonds of the Ugandan extended family " , would make Uganda a police state , and increase the spread of HIV as people would be afraid to seek treatment . He responded to its passage noting that homosexuality is not a sin , saying " People here do n’t understand what homosexuality is . If they did , I do n’t think they would have allowed this law . " In May and June 2010 , at the age of 78 , Senyonjo made a six-week speaking tour of the United States and Ireland , organized by the Rev. Canon Albert Ogle . He spoke in Los Angeles , Sacramento , San Diego , Orange County , San Francisco , Minneapolis , New York City , Belfast , and Dublin . During the tour he attended the ordination of the Rt . Rev Mary Glasspool , the first lesbian bishop of the Episcopal Church , as part of a six-week tour
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Christopher Senyonjo