Martin Ssempa is a Ugandan pastor. He plays a prominent role in Uganda's continuing witch-hunt against LGBT people and rose to Internet infamy after a video was published on YouTube which shows him telling an audience in Uganda that eating human feces is a common sexual practice of gay men. He is one of the most prominent advocates of Uganda's notorious 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act (previously known as the "Kill the Gays Bill" due to the originally proposed death penalty clauses).



Mr. Ssempa holds an honorary PhD from Cairn University (formerly the Philadelphia Biblical University), which he frequently uses to boost his credibility and spread his vile and hateful message. His PhD from Cairn University is prominently placed on his Twitter page (https://twitter.com/martinssempa) and Mr. Ssempa hardly ever fails to introduce himself as "Dr. Ssempa" on public occasions (e.g., http://youtu.be/euXQbZDwV0w).



In 2010, Cairn University distanced itself from Mr. Ssempa, stating that his "present publicly stated position in no way represents or reflects the views of the University, its administration, or its faculty" (http://tinyurl.com/nytt5cn). He has since continued to engage in aggressive activism that degrades LGBT people, and we hence strongly believe that Cairn University must go one step further and cut all ties with Mr. Ssempa.



There is plenty of precedence of universities revoking honorary degrees because the recipients did not deserve them. We call on Cairn University to follow their example and revoke Mr. Ssempa's honorary PhD. It is intolerable that Mr. Ssempa uses a PhD from a Christian university to further his deeply anti-Christian agenda in Uganda.



We trust that Cairn University will do what is right.



Examples of Mr. Ssempa's homophobic activism:

http://youtu.be/euXQbZDwV0w (The infamous "Eat Da Poo Poo" lecture)

http://youtu.be/jLvhQogIOLY (A BBC report on Mr. Ssempa)

http://youtu.be/LKP-PUAI96U (Mr. Ssempa enters the discussion at 40:36)