Rick Warren's Dissertation Advisor & Uganda

Bruce Wilson wrote:

Some observers have wondered if Purpose Driven Life author and mega-evangelist Rick Warren has had a role in the globally controversial bill, especially because of Warren's close association with Ugandan anti-gay activist Martin Ssempa and, more broadly, because Warren has refused to denounce the anti-gay bill. To little notice, a charismatic network overseen by Warren's doctoral dissertation advisor, C. Peter Wagner, has played a major role in politically organizing and inspiring the Ugandan legislators who have spearheaded the anti-gay bill.

Read the entire piece here.

[H.T: Michael-In-Norfolk]

• Nairobi — Both Britain and Canada's prime ministers have told President Yoweri Museveni that a proposed law that would result in homosexuals in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed needs to be withdrawn.
• Warren explains his refusal to oppose the legislation to Newsweek.
• Andrew Sullivan responds.
• As does Ed Brayton at ScienceBlogs.
• Mediaite notes a press failure to confront Warren on the issue.