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Zimbabwe Gay rights debate brews a storm on new Constitution
The Zimbabwe Telegraph ^ | May 1, 2009 | CHIDO GONDO

Posted on 05/08/2009 10:54:03 PM PDT by smokingfrog

This week’s statement by the gay community in Zimbabwe demanding their rights to be enshrined in the country’s new constitution has sparked outrage among many Zimbabweans who despise homosexuality.

A reverend with the Anglican Church in suburban Harare who called them “botty burglars” said homosexuality is an abomination and condemned in the Bible. “That is why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with sulphuric fire. They, homosexuals, had to be completely destroyed,” he said.

“Poofters must know that we are a Christian nation,” said Tawanda Gumbo of Kuwadzana. “They chose to be gay.

Forget this nonsense about them being born gay.

If it is true that some people are born gay then we should see some animals that are attracted to the same sex as well.

The fact that there are no gay cattle, elephants, etc, shows it’s something that people choose to do, something that is not natural, something that is against God’s will.”

Stella Mugwengwe of Tafara said the gay issue was the only area she absolutely agreed with the Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe. He has in the past referred to them as worse than pigs and dogs.

“How can we, as an African nation, give any rights to ‘stoopers and stabbers’? Not in Zimbabwe,”said Mugwengwe. “We don’t want to legalise such a sin. It is against God’s natural law.”

Yusuf Phiri, a Moslem Imam (pastor) in Banket said Moslems were against homosexuality and it would be a big mistake to give them any rights in the new constitution.

“This is how it begins,”he said. “You give them a penny and they will soon ask for a pound. Very soon they will be demanding that we recognise same sex marriages.

(Excerpt) Read more at zimtelegraph.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
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Those botty burglars!
1 posted on 05/08/2009 10:54:03 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Rule number one: No poofters!


2 posted on 05/08/2009 10:57:23 PM PDT by Francis McClobber
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To: smokingfrog

Would it were that a tenth of that outrage could be generated towards Mugabe.


3 posted on 05/08/2009 11:00:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: smokingfrog

doesn’t zimbabwe have more pressing concerns like a worthless currency, a destroyed industrial base, massive brain drain, and extremist government? Can’t the gays wait in line?


4 posted on 05/08/2009 11:03:25 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: smokingfrog

Why, how about we start a vicious rumor about Mugabe being a poofter as well. That would neatly take care of the problem.

(Just kidding, I would not want to do it that way.)


5 posted on 05/08/2009 11:04:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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"A reverend with the Anglican Church ... called them “botty burglars” .... God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with sulphuric fire. ... ,” ... homosexuals, had to be completely destroyed“Poofters.....Stoopers and Stabbers" "Very soon they will be demanding that we recognise same sex marriages."

The Left in the US would call it "hate speech", but I think it is amusing.

6 posted on 05/08/2009 11:08:30 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: ChicagahAl

It’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week, yet all too true.


7 posted on 05/08/2009 11:12:26 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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This is hillarious. I thought it was Scrappleface for a minute.


8 posted on 05/08/2009 11:36:45 PM PDT by Luke21
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Confused here. Doesn’t Zimbabwe have a threat of starvation problem?
why is this even an issue right now?
9 posted on 05/08/2009 11:37:21 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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Rule number one: No poofters!

That certainly seems to be the case in Africa. Here, not so much.

10 posted on 05/09/2009 12:01:47 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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The Left in the US would call it "hate speech"

So basically, you're saying they have more freedom of speech/thought in Zimbabwe than Americans do.
11 posted on 05/09/2009 12:40:14 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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"So basically, you're saying they have more freedom of speech/thought in Zimbabwe than Americans do."

Apparently so. And in another year, they'll probably have a lower hyperinflation rate, too.

12 posted on 05/09/2009 12:51:38 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: utherdoul
It's very likely this is some sort of distraction to take attention away from those more pressing troubles.
13 posted on 05/09/2009 1:19:52 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: smokingfrog

If Americas homosexuals think they have a rough row to hoe here they ought to travel to some of the muslim countries.
How’s ZuZu?


14 posted on 05/09/2009 3:07:48 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (yEP,i)
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Yep. Even in the new “moderate” state of Iraq, they rounded up a group of Homos, glued their asses shut and then force fed them laxatives. I bet that smarted!


15 posted on 05/09/2009 3:31:06 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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Round up all the boys from those san francisco bath houses and send them all over there.


16 posted on 05/09/2009 3:36:10 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (yEP,i)
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Zimbabwe Gay rights debate brews a storm on new Constitution

There are already so many people involved in dying meaningless, senseless and violent deaths in Zimbabwe...isn't that much more efficient than being gay and taking that much longer? Do they have the resources to be gay in Zimbabwe?

"Oh, we have no food, no government, no infrastructure, yet our lives are under total control of socialists who oppress us and now we want to be gay and boost the AIDS epidemic in the process!"

Is "total self-destruction chic" a fad in Zimbabwe? I guess so...

17 posted on 05/09/2009 5:09:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

The homosexuals are not hungry. They’ve been “gobblin’ goobers”.


18 posted on 05/09/2009 6:27:11 AM PDT by lbama
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To: smokingfrog

Hopefully, religious leaders in Zimbabwe will have more resolve than the ones in this nation did decades ago in stopping the normalization of homosexuality. All it leads to disease, depression and loss of freedom of decent people that don’t want it forced down their throats.


19 posted on 05/09/2009 8:41:18 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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Zuzu is fine - until I try to clip her nails today.
Wrrrauuugh!!!
20 posted on 05/09/2009 8:49:45 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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