Note: You can watch Walberg’s speech at the bottom of the post. It begins with his introduction at the 3:10:40 mark.

Tim Walberg must resign for the dangerous remarks he made in Uganda in October, originally reported by the Take Care Tim blog. The US Representative humiliated America, its values, and his Michigan constituents with his tacit support for the country’s new laws that criminalize homosexuality with the death penalty. He told the audience to “stand firm” against international pressure from the United States, The World Bank, and countless civil rights organizations.

But what are civil rights to Walberg, or most other Republicans, but disposable to the whims of theocratic oppression and a nice vacation to spread hate?

Why would a politician from southeastern Michigan feel the need to travel to Uganda to show support for the country’s anti-homosexuality laws? Well, according to his press office, I’m wrong, and Walberg didn’t hitch a ride to Uganda on the dole of The Fellowship Foundation to offer his support for laws that justify killing gay people for simply existing.

Nope. He took the 7,545-mile trip paid for by The Family (Yes, that one) to criticize America—and others. That seems like a long way to go to do something he does daily from his office in DC, right?

Walberg said in Entebbe, Uganda, on October 8:

“Worthless, for instance, is the thought of The World Bank, or the World Health Organization, or the United Nations, or, sadly, some in our administration in America who say, ‘You are wrong for standing for values that God created,’ for saying there are male and female and God created them.'”

Well, first, that’s a lie with an Orwellian twist of language and logic, and it’s not the only bit of propaganda he peddled during his speech. He incorrectly told the audience that our founders based our country’s principles on scripture, which is not true. But if wants his theocratic Christianity to take the blame for the curse and sin of American slavery in a secular country, so be it.

The issue at hand isn’t an individual’s religious belief about sex. The problem is the Ugandan government’s use of violence and oppression of civil rights to enforce brutal religious law. That’s wrong everywhere unless you’re Tim—he’ll find a venue, make the first reservation, and preach Amen.

“Whose side do we want to be on?” he continued. “God’s side. Not The World Bank, not the United States of America necessarily. Not the UN.”

Uh, are you still on America’s side, Tim? Have you ever been?

Ugandans advocating for LGBTQ liberty could end up in jail under the new law. Imprisoning people for their speech seems very anti-First Amendment to me, but Walberg would rather the country “stand firm” against the pressure of offering equality to all its citizens.

Again, according to his press office, I’m still wrong about all of this because Walberg needed to go to Uganda to call out The World Bank and other global organizations for unevenly pushing “social policies.”

His spokesperson said:

“This [The World Bank criticizing Uganda and not Afghanistan in regards to homosexuality] is just one example of a growing trend of global organizations abandoning their duties and missions to pursue a political agenda and Congressman Walberg will continue to speak against this trend, even when it comes with…” blah-blah-blah. Bullshit.

What social policies and political agendas are these organizations pushing and advocating for? Liberty, equality, and the right to live free from barbaric religious laws. Ya know, core American values. If Walberg thinks liberty and freedom are political agendas that countries should stand against, what does he stand for in our Congress? It’s certainly not America with these kinds of comments.

When it comes to civil rights, The World Bank and others fight the battle where they can. It’s much easier to stop laws from being implemented than it is to change existing ones. You’d think a member of the legislative branch would understand legislating, but that’s probably hard to do when you’re playing pastor and encouraging discrimination in Uganda.

But again, he wasn’t there to support the law. Walberg’s mealy-mouthed response to being caught is correct in that he never voiced any support for the country’s terrible policies and said only when he was safely back in the Land of Free Speech and Liberty that he doesn’t support “the criminalization of homosexuality”… after telling the country to stand against international pressure to preserve the civil rights of all Ugandans.

He also didn’t say he supported treating the LGTBQ community with equality, either. Not In Uganda, and not once he was back home.

Walberg could have criticized US foreign policy from America, could have criticized anyone and everyone right here in Good Ol’ US of A, but he did not, and that’s why he must resign. His mere presence at Uganda’s National Prayer Breakfast legitimatized religious hate in Uganda, a country the United States harshly condemned in May for implementing its horrendous laws.

His reasoning for the trip is deceitful, an excuse after the fact to paint over getting caught peddling hate and undermining our values. He chose to stand next to people who said horrendous things about the LGBTQ community.

Member of Parliament Cecilia Ogwal, who Walberg said comes in second place to God in his hierarchy of horror, called the LGBTQ community “a force from the bottom of hell,” categorized the LGBTQ community with “all sorts of evil practices,” and called for their destruction “in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.”

And there is US Representative Tim Walberg standing shoulder to shoulder alongside outright hate and disdain for fundamental human rights. Before Walberg took to the podium, Member of Parliament David Bahati, the author of the country’s 2014 “Kill the Gays” law, said Walberg had told him that Uganda was “on the right side of God.”

Which just so happens to be on the wrong side of America.

Is that an Amen, Tim?

Walberg did not stand at the podium in Uganda in support of liberty, freedom, democracy, equality, free speech, or religious freedom. All were absent from his speech. He went to Uganda and told the country to “stand firm” against those vital American values. He openly supported theocracy over democracy, equality, and basic human rights. He spewed hate by choice and doesn’t want to be held responsible.

Tim, you went to Uganda and said they could be bigots, too. And not just bigots, but religiously motivated bigots. And not just religiously motivated ones, but bigots who could and should enforce their barbaric religious attacks on human rights with the force of the government.

That’s a theocracy.

If those are the values you support, you should do us all a favor, resign, and live under Uganda’s cruel, theocratic rule you so proudly “stand firm” with. Death penalties for loving who you want better align with your Christian cruelties than the American values of liberty and freedom you so openly despise.

You cannot travel to a foreign land, promote theocracy at the expense of freedom, and not expect to be called to resign for undermining American values. Walberg told Uganda to stand firm against international pressure to treat the Ugandan LGBTQ community equally. That’s vile, evil, and anti-American. We should expect their politicians to support democracy over theocracy wherever they go, and Walberg and those like him who don’t must resign.