Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia
Source: The Guardian
The Nobel peace prize winner and president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has defended a law that criminalises homosexual acts, saying: "We like ourselves just the way we are."
In a joint interview with Tony Blair, who was left looking visibly uncomfortable by her remarks, Sirleaf told the Guardian: "We've got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve."
Liberian legislation classes "voluntary sodomy" as a misdemeanour punishable by up to one year in prison, but two new bills have been proposed that would target homosexuality with much tougher sentences.
Blair, on a visit to Liberia in his capacity as the founder of the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), a charity that aims to strengthen African governments, refused to comment on Sirleaf's remarks.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/19/nobel-peace-prize-law-homosexuality
Africa and the Middle East are the worst places to be gay, with the exception of Israel, which is quite tolerant.
And that Blair would just sit there and not comment is in character with weasel behaviotr
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Archae
(46,359 posts)KKK.
Hosnon
(7,800 posts)G.O.P.
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)of weasels. Blair is the UK's Rmoney.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Isn't that all that homosexuals are saying?
jhrobbins
(1,633 posts)You can be a Nobel Prize winner and be a cvnt too.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)But I don't think that language is necessary. Can't we express vehement disagreement and outrage without gender-charged ad hominem attacks?
Number23
(24,544 posts)be hidden. Amazing.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)It is misread as being a "Paragon of Virtue" prize. It comes very close in the public eye to being viewed as beatification and the end result is that it lends credibility to areas that the person is not being recognized for. (ie, "Well, if a Nobel Peace Prize Winner is saying this, there must be something to it."
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)disndat
(1,887 posts)The prestige of the prize has been compromised.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)Get rid of one blood diamond trading cannibal warlord and if the people there don't care then another one will pop up eventually.
And interestingly enough, I just now read up on this and the ex-wife of said cannibal warlord is involved with the legislation.
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)To be fair, he's more of a poodle than a weasel.
He could have at least barked a little though.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)But why why why does the sort of person that should understand what being the target of heterosexual males turn around and attack gays?
sendero
(28,552 posts).. simply isn't what it used to be, or is it just that there are simply no really deserving people in the pool of potential candidates?
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....that there is a whole sub-class of humans that take it solely upon themselves to worry more about what may penetrate the different orifices of your body, than you do....