Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia
Source: The Guardian
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."
In a joint interview with Tony Blair, who was left looking visibly uncomfortable by her remarks, Sirleaf 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.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/19/nobel-peace-prize-law-homosexuality
Africa and the Middle East are the worst places to be gay, with the exception of Israel, which is quite tolerant.
And that Blair would just sit there and not comment is in character with weasel behaviotr
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It is misread as being a "Paragon of Virtue" prize. It comes very close in the public eye to being viewed as beatification and the end result is that it lends credibility to areas that the person is not being recognized for. (ie, "Well, if a Nobel Peace Prize Winner is saying this, there must be something to it."
