KAMPALA, Uganda – A former Ugandan lesbian activist has gone from LGBT to TBGL, “transformed by God’s love,” and denounced what she called a “sin of same sex” after years of advocating for the LGBT agenda. Kalende announced this recently during the “Sunday Service Live” on Uganda’s Salt TV.

Val Kalende is a self-described “preacher’s kid” and journalist who left her career at the Ugandan newspaper Daily Monitor in 2007 to focus on LGBT activism. Kalende was one of the pioneers of the Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG), an umbrella body for LGBT organizations in the country. In 2010, she went global with the campaign, speaking at international human rights conferences. In 2014, when the Ugandan Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act criminalizing homosexual behavior, Kalende left the country and was granted asylum in Canada.

However, Kalende has now denounced homosexuality and is willing to speak about its dangers in society because she has “seen light” and embraced a relationship with Jesus Christ.  “I joined lesbianism right after Makerere University. I’m born of Christian parents. All of them cut their ties with me for being gay. I became an orphan. But I became rebellious. We always wondered why the world forced us to become girls who do not love men.”

Kalende recently wrote, “Dear LGBT movement: I found Life, Truth and Grace. My prayer is that you find the good life as I have. Y’all have become my reason for intercession. I know, from some of the messages I‘ve received so far, that the Holy Spirit has begun speaking to your hearts. He is the revealer of all truth…To pastors I disagreed with, I am sorry. To politicians I violently fought in a war of words, I am sorry. To the old and young generation of this nation, I am sorry. To my FATHER and maker, I am sorry. To myself, I am sorry. I am at peace with my soul because I am forgiven and forever set free.  Psalm 51:17.”

“Val Kalende is an incredible example that Jesus Christ can change the heart of even those who have acted adamantly against Him,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Ms. Kalende’s testimony is like Saul’s conversion from persecuting Christians to then giving his heart and life to God and becoming Paul. Despite those who want to deny reality, people can and do change,” said Staver.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently vindicated the name of Pastor Scott Lively in an appeal Liberty Counsel filed in June 2017. Lively filed the appeal after winning summary judgment against SMUG, which had sued Lively in 2012 for sharing his biblical views on homosexuality during three visits to Uganda in 2002 and 2009.

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