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From the office of GOP Rep. Tim Walberg:
Despite inaccurate reports circulating, the transcript clearly shows that Congressman Walberg never endorsed any legislation or law while in Uganda. He did call out the World Bank for repeatedly holding Uganda, a Christian nation, to a different standard than much of the rest of the world.
There is an undeniable double standard where other nations, like Afghanistan, receive uncriticized support from the World Bank. Global organizations, like the World Bank, should adhere to their mission and fiduciary duty to help bring economic prosperity to developing countries. They should not be in the business of pushing social policies, especially in an uneven fashion.
This 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 gross mischaracterizations and inaccuracies.
TYT reporter Jonathan Larsen scoffs:
“He says ‘I didn’t defend the law’, which is true and in the sense that he didn’t name it. But he absolutely was understood by his audience. The Ugandan audience understood exactly what he was talking about. Other speakers were much more clear and transparent about the subject matter, and the reality is there’s nothing else you could logically have been talking about.”
As the piece at the second link above notes and as you can see in the video below, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni followed Walberg at the podium and praised him for being a Westerner willing to stand against “homosexuals.”
Walberg appeared here in 2020 when he became ill with COVID after opposing lockdown measures.
We first heard from him in 2017, when he declared that if climate change “turns out to be real, God will fix it.”
Walberg has opposed every LGBTQ rights measure before the House and co-sponsored a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
He was elected to a seventh term in 2022 by 28 points.
My first post on his Uganda speech is here.
Rep. Tim Walberg, co-chair of the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast, went to Uganda to support its Anti-Homosexuality Act, which has a death penalty. His trip was paid for by the sponsors of the Prayer Breakfast.
Time to shun the National Prayer Breakfast?https://t.co/Vi2Mvw2Smy
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 27, 2023