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Manny Pacquiao’s Instagram account calls for gay people to be put to death
Source: The Guardian
Manny Pacquiao’s Instagram account calls for gay people to be put to death
• Boxer underlines his opposition to same-sex relationships
• Social media post deleted after two hours
Mark Dobson
Friday 19 February 2016 18.12 GMT
Manny Pacquiao has risked more global condemnation after underlining his opposition to people in same-sex relationships.
The boxer, who is running for a seat in the Philippines senate in May’s elections as a conservative Christian, sparked outrage this week after saying gay people were “worse than animals”.
“What I am saying is right. I mean I am just stating the truth, what the Bible says,” he said during training in his hometown of General Santos. The 37-year-old added that his only mistake this week had been to compare people to animals. Nike ended its commercial deal with the Filipino after his comments, calling them “abhorrent”.
Pacquiao had apologised on Facebook, saying he was sorry for hurting people and was “not condemning LGBT” but was still against gay marriage.
But Pacquiao’s Instagram account seemed to back up his initial comments as a Bible quote appeared, reading: “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
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• Boxer underlines his opposition to same-sex relationships
• Social media post deleted after two hours
Mark Dobson
Friday 19 February 2016 18.12 GMT
Manny Pacquiao has risked more global condemnation after underlining his opposition to people in same-sex relationships.
The boxer, who is running for a seat in the Philippines senate in May’s elections as a conservative Christian, sparked outrage this week after saying gay people were “worse than animals”.
“What I am saying is right. I mean I am just stating the truth, what the Bible says,” he said during training in his hometown of General Santos. The 37-year-old added that his only mistake this week had been to compare people to animals. Nike ended its commercial deal with the Filipino after his comments, calling them “abhorrent”.
Pacquiao had apologised on Facebook, saying he was sorry for hurting people and was “not condemning LGBT” but was still against gay marriage.
But Pacquiao’s Instagram account seemed to back up his initial comments as a Bible quote appeared, reading: “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/19/manny-pacquiao-boxing-gay-people-instagram-nike
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