As a preface, let me start with this:

The movement in question in not synonymous with The Family, as covered by journalist Jeff Sharlet. That entity has played a major role (in both promoting the bill, it would seem, and later opposing it after a world outcry over the proposed legislation) in Uganda's Anti Homosexuality bill, before Uganda's parliament, which would mandate that HIV positive Ugandan citizens convicted for the crime of "aggravated homosexuality" be executed by hanging and would also require Ugandans to turn in to the Ugandan police, or face a three year prison sentence, family, friends, and acquaintances who might be gay.

While The Family is a world association of elites, especially politicians, the Transformation movement organizing in Newark, in many other cities across America as well, in Uganda and around the globe, is organizing populist fronts from the ground level up. The Transformation movement promotes ideology, and an entire worldview - in which gays are possessed by demons. Officially, the idea is that being homosexual can be cured through exorcism, the casting out of those alleged gay demons. But, unofficially, the agenda seems to be to purge all gays from society, through imprisonment and even execution. And, gays would seem to be merely the first, but far from the last, societal on the list slated for elimination.

Welcome to the "Transformation" movement.

As another critical point, most of the people described in my new story, about the Transformation movement in Newark, probably aren't walking Newark's streets with the intent of mapping put enemies, whether the alleged enemies be gays, Buddhists and Hindus, Freemasons, atheists or socialists, etc. (the Transformation movement's list of enemies is long).

But the leaders of PrayforNewark are fully in the global Transformation movement and there is little question, as my story on the Transformation movement in Newark outlines, that they are quite aware of and indeed are promoting the underlying eliminationalist Transformation ideology - which is to say that the leaders of PrayforNewark are inducting their army of prayer walkers into a worldview in which demons, and humans believe to be inhabited by demons, must be purged from society.

Last Thursday, in testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, one of the four experts called to testify, the Reverend Kapya Kaoma, praised the work [a journalist with a Current TV team at the hearing let me know of this. I haven't yet found a transcript] that my research colleague Rachel Tabachnick and I have been doing on the Transformation movement that, as my new 20 minute documentary Transforming Uganda demonstrates, played a major role in organizing and inspiring the Ugandan politicians behind the Anti Homosexuality Bill.

I'd talked with Kaoma a few days earlier, after he'd seen my documentary. Kaoma has recently released a Political Research Associates report, Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, and Homophobia. Kaoma's report charges that conservative American evangelicals are exporting anti-gay hatred to Uganda, and to Africa.

Kapya Kaoma stressed to me (and I fully agreed) that there is no one evangelical entity that can be fully blamed for the "Kill the gays" bill because there are many evangelical ministries that are not officially linked together within the United States but which work closely together in Uganda almost as if they were the same organization.

[below is the first half of my new report, Movement Behind Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill Organizing in Newark]