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Nigeria begins arrests after anti-gay law passed
Telegraph ^ | Mike Pflanz

Posted on 01/14/2014 12:43:30 PM PST by Morgana

Nigerian authorities today began arresting gay men after legislation was quietly approved criminalising homosexuality and imposing prison terms up to 14 years for breaking the new law.

Several gay couples were taken into custody in the country’s majority-Muslim north, and rights groups feared that others would be targeted across the West African country.

Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s president, signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act into law on January 7, but there was no public report of the new law until journalists obtained a copy of the act on Monday.

It prohibits homosexuals from even meeting in groups of two or more, bans marriage or civil unions between people of the same sex, and criminalises gay clubs and events.

Reuben Abati, the presidential spokesman, said Nigerians were happy with the new law. It makes Nigeria the 38th African nation to enact legislation persecuting gay people.

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To: christx30
It’s no ones business what two adults do in the privacy of their own homes.

Spoken like a true liberal. If I have to pay the medical costs of Aids, and the research costs of curing a preventable disease, then it is my business. It should be outlawed.

21 posted on 01/14/2014 4:19:07 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: DJ MacWoW; christx30

“Nor should they punished for it. It’s no ones business what two adults do in the privacy of their own homes”

The problem with that statement is that is exactly what they said to us. Had they stayed in the privacy of there own homes no one would care now. They don’t. They have sex in plain view during gay pride parades, nude beaches, you name it. If we complain they say we are not tolerant.

Nigeria is a country that does not like to see heteros making out in public. They sure don’t want to see homosexuals having butt sex during anything that is considered gay pride.


22 posted on 01/14/2014 6:15:21 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana; christx30

If only they kept it in their own homes. They were forming “clubs” in Nigeria. There’s a reason clubs were outlawed since they eventually use them as political tools and pressure.


23 posted on 01/14/2014 6:20:20 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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