Posted on 04/28/2012 5:39:39 AM PDT by IbJensen
LUSAKA, April 27, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the face of U.S. threats to cut off foreign aid, President Yahya Jammeh defended Gambian laws banning homosexual behavior in comments to the country’s National Assembly last Friday.
“If you want us to be ungodly for you to give us aid, take your aid away, we will survive,” said Jammeh, in comments that were reported by the Daily Observer. “We will rather eat grass than accept this ungodly evil attitude that is anti-God, anti-human and anti-creation.”
The country’s stance against homosexual behavior has come under increased scrutiny after President Obama announced in December that the U.S. would look at how accepting a country was of homosexuality when considering foreign aid allocation.
On the same day that the Administration’s new policy was announced, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that gay rights and human rights were “one and the same” in a speech before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
British Prime Minister David Cameron had made a similar statement in October of 2011, threatening to reduce or cut off aid to African countries that prosecuted homosexual acts or did not permit gay “marriage.”
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Reactions to the threats have varied in African countries with anti-sodomy laws. In Malawi, where the country’s first openly gay couple was sentenced to fourteen years of hard labor after holding an “engagement” ceremony, officials had pledged to reconsider the ban within days of the Obama Administration’s announcement. Religious and political leaders in other African countries have blasted the decision, however.
According to President Jammeh, the Gambian law is enduring because it is rooted in the country’s culture and religion. Acceptance of homosexual acts would compromise the nation’s dignity and “insult God,” he said. The country is predominately Muslim, but is also home to many Christians.
He noted that Gambia had lost many of its traditional practices to the influence of western culture, but said that this was an issue where the country would stand firm.
“We lost our traditional head scarf for a necktie, but we will not lose our humanity for the so-called human rights,” he said. “We will respect human rights where a human being behaves like a human being.”
He added: “Let me make it very clear that if you want me to offend God for you to give me aid, you are making a great mistake. You will not bribe me to do what is evil and ungodly.”
Jammeh has taken a hard line against homosexual behavior during his four terms in office as President of Gambia. He has received criticism for threatening overly harsh penalties for homosexual acts, including advocating the death penalty. According to the U.S. Department of State, this threat was never translated into law, and current penalties do not include execution.
“We lost our traditional head scarf for a necktie, but we will not lose our humanity for the so-called human rights,” he said. “We will respect human rights where a human being behaves like a human being.”
>>.our nation has been turned over to the sodomites because we FAILED to acknowledge Him as the Creator. <<
First, don’t include me in your ‘we’.
Second, our nation has been turned over to the sodomites because we FAILED to elect individuals who will stand up and acknowledge Him as the Creator.
Did you protest to your school boards when prayers were forbidden in the classroom? Silence is acquiescence.
This whole controversy raises an important point about so-called “human rights” in foreign countries that i would like to quickly address.
As some fellow Freepers know, I own a company called CaribbeanLifeClub.com that has as its sole purpose helping people find property and homes in Central America. It’s because of CLC that I am highly sensitive to what the so-called “human rights” industry is doing to countries that refuse to follow its perverse dictates.
Simply put, when you read about some “human rights” organization (including our own state department) giving a country a low “human rights” rating, here’s what you have to keep in mind: in almost every one of those situations, the top two criteria are “homosexuality rights” and “reproductive rights.”
In other words, if a country does not embrace (notice, I said “embrace,” not “tolerate”) homosexual behavior and abortion on demand, that country is condemned as a “human rights” hellhole where “gays” and women are routinely put to the whip.
So, the next time you hear that “human rights” are not protected in places like Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, or any other Central American haven (which they are now compared to Barack Obama’s America), just keep in mind: it’s all based on what we might call the Barney Frank and Sandra Fluke Indexes.
In short, all that matters to the “human rights” watchdogs is protecting perversion and predation.
this is what happens when we put perverts in positions of authority - just sayin
Obama is truly a giant stinking fruit of the ‘reverse’ racist, communist, gay/sex-positive agenda, America hating, PC, affirmative action tree. A perfect brainwashed paragon of all they stand for.
There are always exceptions to 'we'...there were in Sodom and Gomorrah...
Second, our nation has been turned over to the sodomites because we FAILED to elect individuals who will stand up and acknowledge Him as the Creator.
I'm inclined to agree, although Romans doesn't specifically reference 'elections'. We should all acknowledge Him as Creator.
Did you protest to your school boards when prayers were forbidden in the classroom?
No...I was in school at the time; although I didn't understand why we no longer recited the Lord's Prayer anymore...nowadays; I make plenty of noise about schools, and I don't have children. Actual parents? Not so much.
I really didn’t need to see the graphic details of butt pirates and guys who suck you know what. I haven’t eaten lunch yet. I’ve lost my appetite.
No they are not, I for one would not want to live in a Muslim majority country. There are differences between Islam and a true faith in Jesus; I would rather live in a country where most are born-again Christians and do not accept homosexuality, but know the meaning of Grace, where we hope and pray that those who live in and tolerate this sin’s hearts will be changed by God!
Imagine them telling the Moslem nations to allow freedom of Religious expression or no more foreign aid.
We all know that will never happen.
But freedom to practice homosexuality and lesbianism and “transgenderism”, whatever that is, we will starve you out if you don’t allow it.
Too many FReepers think that screaming and yelling and cussing about what’s wrong with America of FR is somehow supposed to be effective at informing the legislators about their opinions.
When you get four or five people together, go down to your local mayor or state legislator’s office and speak as one voice, that’s when they listen to you. Why? Because they know that if you can gather a small group, you can assemble a large group.
Go to a city council meeting with a bunch of friends and have one person speak. Say, “I am speaking for - (turn around and everyone in your group stands up) - myself and my neighbors about this issue”.
Don’t be surprised if the city manager gives you a personal call when the next big issue is coming up, looking for your support.
Yelling on a forum is as effective as ******* into the wind.
Why do you oppose a nation's ability to control it's own social agenda without having the Obama regime dictate to it what they must not do with the homos in their country?
Do you oppose a policy that would make homosexuality a crime and do not think a nation should be able to behead homos?
"Eat grass"? Is that some kind of euphemism?
Sorry, but I’ll take gays over Muzzies. Muzzies are the much bigger threat.
Your secret is safe with us.
The only secret I have is that Islam is a much greater threat......I supported Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands, he was gay, but he was on the front lines against Islamo-Fascism, it was a huge loss when he was murdered by the Islamo-Scum.
Very common view among Africans. America’s liberals are going to have to choose between encouraging Africans and supporting the LGBT agenda.
I’m afraid we will choose badly.
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