African statesman condemns homosexuality as an 'abomination'

[Ed Barrow]

Source: The Guardian

An African statesman who shares a political platform with Kofi Annan, Tony Blair and Bob Geldof has condemned homosexuality as an "abomination", dismissing individuals' right to privacy with the riposte: "You want to make love to a horse?"

Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, indicated his support for the sentencing last week of a gay couple in Malawi to 14 years in prison with hard labour, insisting that countries have the right to enforce their own laws.

The remarks, coming at a time of huge sensitivity around gay rights in Africa, have the potential to embarrass Obasanjo's colleagues on the Africa Progress Panel, a respected body that monitors development across the continent. Chaired by Annan, its members include Blair, Geldof, economist Muhammad Yunus and Graca Machel, the women's and children's rights activist and wife of Nelson Mandela.

Annan, the former UN secretary-general, and Obasanjo, a UN special envoy, appeared united on stage yesterday at the launch of the panel's latest report in Johannesburg.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/25/gay-rights-africa-malawi

[racaulk]

1. I'll type a reply to this OP as soon as my horse is done mounting me. n/t

[tanyev]

2. He's obviously never met RWer Neal "My first girlfriend was a mule" Horsley.

[nomorenomore08]

6. +1

Even funnier, he told Alan Colmes something like "That's just what happens when you grow up on a farm in Georgia," as if there were nothing all that outlandish about it.

[davidinalameda]

3. Annan wil work on this guy?

doubtful it would work though

[katzenjammers]

4. Strange how "asshole" is spelled "statesman" in Nigeria.

:grr:

[liberation]

5. Did he say that before or after asking for the bank account details to send that million dollars to?

[edbermac]

7. Oh yeah, I've always had a thing for Mr Ed.

[izquierdista]

12. He is hung like a horse!

[happygoluckytoyou]

8. sorry amigo, my little filly is insurmountable... but our child is the centaur of our attention!

GO FUCK A REPUBLICAN.... SEE WHAT THAT GETS YOU....

[and-justice-for-all]

9. I condemn Africa as a backwards barbaric mud hut dwellers...

who still have to hit rocks together to make fire.

Also proof that a lack of proper education breeds ignorance.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Mr Kofi Anan ought to know better

And my estimation of him has plummeted reading this. I assume he would laugh and share the stage with extreme racists as well, if he would not he is not much better than the Nigerian, who does not deserve so much as a human name. The entire Progress Panel needs to disavow this venomous hate monger.
I note that the Bigot of Nigeria also blames Christianity for his own ignorance. I wonder how long other 'Christians' and 'Statesmen' will be comfortable with the company of this man.

[BreweryYardRat]

11. *raises eyebrow*

Ignorance and stupidity breed hate, as they always have. Gay folks and us bisexuals are genetically hardwired for our preferences...just as Obasanjo is genetically hardwired to have black skin.