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oldironside

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Mon Mar 19, 2012, 04:25 PM Mar 2012

Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia

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.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/19/nobel-peace-prize-law-homosexuality

And, of course, Mr Blair immediately told her that such medieval views were unacceptable in the modern world and that countries which persecuted their own citizens over issues of sexuality would risk losing aid. Oh, sorry, he just shifted in his chair and refused to answer the question.

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