According to Human Rights Watch,

Previously, Pastor Martin Ssempa, a prominent campaigner against both condom
usage and homosexuality, had listed Ugandan LGBT rights activists by name on
a
website (http://kobsrugby.com/demo/),
posting pictures and contact information and calling them “homosexual
promoters.” Ssempa was the key organizer of an August 21 rally in Kampala,
at
which hundreds of demonstrators demanded government actions to punish
LGBT
people, calling homosexual conduct “a criminal act against the laws of
nature.”

According to the US State Department, Ssempa’s Makerere Community
Church received US funding as a 2004 sub-partner of the President’s
Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This $15 billion program, heavily
promoted by the
Bush administration, earmarks one-third of spending on
prevention of sexual
transmission of HIV for “abstinence and fidelity
programs,” some of which are
based on so-called abstinence-only curricula
developed in the United States. In
a March 2005 report, Human Rights Watch
documented how abstinence-only programs in Uganda suppress lifesaving
information about condoms and safer sex, and convey that LGBT people’s
sexualities are immoral and that there is no “safer”
way for them to have
sex (http://hrw.org/reports/2005/uganda0305/).

The US Congress Committee on International Relations, chaired at the time
by Congressman Henry
J. Hyde, brought Ssempa to testify in 2005 as an expert
in the fight against
HIV/AIDS in Africa, and as a Special Representative to
the First Lady of
Uganda’s Task Force on AIDS. Ssempa has also acted as
representative and adviser
of the office of First Lady Janet Museveni,
another PEPFAR grantee.

“US politicians and pocketbooks underwrite hatred in Uganda,” Long
said. “The US has no business lending an aura of respectability to policies that
undermine human
rights and public health.”

Addtionally, according to International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission,

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has uncovered evidence that the U.S. government has funded groups in Uganda that actively promote discrimination against lesbians and gay men. In a letter to U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul, IGLHRC has criticized funding the groups and has asked for assurances that U.S. government funds are not being used to support homophobic organizations anywhere in the world.IGLHRC’s investigation followed a series of distressing events in Uganda. At an August 16 press conference, Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG), a coalition of LGBT groups, launched Let us Live in Peace Campaign, calling for understanding and respect of sexual minorities. SMUG’s campaign was met with an increase in hate speech by religious groups. The primary instigator of the backlash was Pastor Martin Ssempa, leader of the Makerere University Community Church and spokesman for the Interfaith Family Culture Coalition Against Homosexuality in Uganda. Ssempa organized an August 21 rally in Kampala, the country’s largest city, at which more than one hundred demonstrators, including several government officials, demanded official action against LGBT people. Ssempa has called homosexual conduct, “a criminal act against the laws of nature,” and has said that, “there should be no rights granted to homosexuals in this country.” According to the U.S. Embassy in Uganda’s website, Makerere University Community Church received a grant under a program designed to provide funds for AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs in Africa. Mr. Ssempa and his coalition, which includes Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, and Evangelicals, have threatened the safety of Ugandan LGBT rights activists by posting their names, photos and addresses on a website (http://kobsrugby.com/demo/). With support from conservative organizations such as Family Watch International in the United States, Ssempa has launched attacks not only on homosexuals but on Uganda’s women’s rights and HIV activists as well. “The U.S. government’s funding is meant to alleviate suffering and support effective AIDS initiatives in Africa, not to further blame and stigmatize already marginalized groups,” said IGLHRC Executive Director Paula Ettelbrick. IGLHRC provided Ambassador Dybul with evidence of grants made by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the Makerere University Community Church.Furthermore, IGLHRC found that the Uganda Muslim Tabliqh Women’s Desk has also received a grant under the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to implement HIV programs in Masaka District. Recently, Muslim Tabliqh youth announced a plan to form an ‘Anti-Gay Squad’ to fight homosexuality in Uganda. On 28 August 2007, Sheikh Multah Bukenya, a senior cleric in the Tabliqh Organization, was quoted during prayers at Noor Mosque in Kampala as saying that his followers are “ready to act swiftly and form this squad that will wipe out all abnormal practices like homosexuality in our society.” PEPFAR is a $15 billion Bush administration fund to fight AIDS in Africa. According to IGLHRC’s 2007 report, “Off the Map: How HIV/AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa,” less than U.S. $1 million targets HIV programs for men who have sex with men in Africa, despite strong evidence that HIV has a disproportionate impact on LGBT communities throughout the continent. According to IGLHRC, the complicated PEPFAR sub-granting process lacks transparency and makes it difficult to track the funding. “What we do know, is that few PEPFAR dollars are being used to fight HIV among gay men in Africa,” said Cary Alan Johnson, IGLHRC Senior Specialist for Africa. “Not only have African men who have sex with men been largely ignored with regard to HIV prevention services, but avowedly homophobic organizations are receiving funding for programs that will only further stigmatize homosexuality. This has to stop.”IGLHRC has called for increased transparency in the distribution of U.S. government HIV/AIDS funding internationally and a commitment by U.S. administrators that organizations espousing hate speech will not be fundedHomosexuality is illegal in Uganda and is punishable by between 14 years and life imprisonment. Last year, the Ugandan Parliament passed a constitutional amendment making same-sex marriages illegal.

(sorry for the spacing on this post… I’m at a internet cafe)