Uganda’s Sunday Monitor is reporting that David Bahati (pictured at left), the legislator who introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda’s parliament, is expected to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington next month (Feb. 4).

The annual event is run by The Family (aka The Fellowship), the secretive U.S.-based evangelical group that has been linked to the Uganda bill (and to Mark Sanford, and to John Ensign, and on, and on…) There’s actually a dispute over how involved American evangelicals have been in promoting the proposed bill, as demonstrated by this discussion at Get Religion.

As Mark Silk at Spiritual Politics reports, every president since Eisenhower has attended the event. Last year, for example, President Obama unveiled his revamped Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the breakfast, which is generally closed to the media.

Bahati’s presence would put Obama in quite the bind. Not hard to see that gay rights groups would explode should he decide to attend. Evangelicals, obviously, would be peeved if he didn’t. UPDATE: One source says the Family says Bahati is not coming to the NPB.

As Silk points out, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton is in a jam as well. She’s praised the Family, but sharply opposed Uganda’s anti-gay bill, which would punish gays and lesbians with long jail sentences or even death in certain circumstances.

Here’s what she said in December during a lecture and Q&A on “the U.S. Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century” at Georgetown University; Clinton was asked how the U.S. can help protect the rights of LGBT people around the world; she mentioned the Uganda bill:

And then the example that I used of a piece of legislation in Uganda which would not only criminalize homosexuality but attach the death penalty to it. We have expressed our concerns directly, indirectly, and we will continue to do so. The bill has not gone through the Ugandan legislature, but it has a lot of public support by various groups, including religious leaders in Uganda. And we view it as a very serious potential violation of human rights.

Thanks to Spiritual Politics and Box Turtle Bulletin for ferreting out the story.