Rwanda: Sodomy, Animal Sex Un-African

23 January 2006
opinion

Kigali — African governments should wake up and flash out the increasing number and establishment of homosexuality on the continent just as the Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo openly came out and supported the Country's Anglican leadership stance against practices of sodomy and related same-sex relationships.

Obasanjo told a conference of Nigerian bishops that "Such a tendency is clearly un-Biblical, unnatural and definitely un-African". In the original sense, homosexuality refers to a sexual orientation characterized by lasting aesthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for others of the same sex. It can also refer to the manifestation of that orientation in the identity of an individual, possibly at odds with that person's sexual behaviour. It can refer to sexual relations with another of the same sex regardless of one's sexual orientation, self-identification or gender identity.

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