Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia and Tony Blair says nothing…
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.”
Can someone tell me how this dumb ignorant bitch was awarded the Nobel Peace prize? Because she is not spreading “Peace” at all.
Sirleaf was being interviewed along with Tony Blair as she 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.
When asked whether good governance and human rights went hand in hand, the British former prime minister said: “I’m not giving you an answer on it.”
“One of the advantages of doing what I do now is I can choose the issues I get into and the issues I don’t. For us, the priorities are around power, roads, jobs delivery,” he said.
Wow.
While Blair was prime minister he pushed through laws on civil partnerships, lifting a ban on gay people in the armed forces and lowering the age of consent for gay people to 16.
A Catholic convert, he called on the pope to rethink his “entrenched” views and offer equal rights to gay people. But gay rights, he said, were not something he was prepared to get involved in as an adviser to African leaders.
With Sirleaf sitting to his left, Blair refused to give any advice on gay rights reforms. He let out a stifled chuckle after Sirleaf interrupted him to make it clear that Blair and his staff were only allowed to do what she said they could. “AGI Liberia has specific terms of reference … that’s all we require of them,” she said, crossing her arms and leaning back.
Regardless to what Blair has done for gays, he was arrogant and smug when asked the question. He should have defended gay rights. Not cower because he did not want to embarrass Sirleaf. Disgusting. Bother acted like nasty bitches…
via Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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