. >> reporter: frank mugisha is uganda's best known gay rights advocate. he took over the group led by david kato. mugisha blames american evangelical pastors, like massachusetts-based scott lively, for helping stoke intolerance here. >> what has caused these people to end up in this condition that god condemns, that is hurting them and that we want to help them to overcome? >> reporter: videos posted on the internet show lively conducting seminars here decrying a global homosexual agenda, insisting that homosexuality is a learned behavior that can be unlearned, and that he'd helped many people do so. lively denies he ever called for violence, but in a deeply religious country, mugisha says such messages affirm local clergy and policymakers. >> you have political leaders saying we should never accept homosexuality, a political leader saying if the law is passed, i'll go and take a job in the prisons to hang the homosexuals myself. so if it is a political leader, a member of parliament saying that, then how are the people who believe, who have voted for the