American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/4996/american_anti-gay_campaign_in_africa_opposes_%E2%80%9Cfictitious_sexual_rights%E2%80%9D/

Sharon Slater, American anti-gay activist and president of Family Watch International, recently encouraged delegates attending a law conference in Lagos, Nigeria to resist the United Nations’ calls to decriminalize homosexuality. Keynoting the Nigerian Bar Association Conference, Slater told delegates that they would lose their religious and parental rights if they supported “fictitious sexual rights.” One such “fictitious right” is the right to engage in same-sex sexual relationships without going to jail.

According to an email from the organization, Slater’s efforts are already getting results. A week after Slater’s speech, husband Greg Slater, FWI’s legal adviser, told supporters in an email:

As the most populous and one of the wealthiest African counties, Nigeria can serve as a strong role model for other governments in the region to follow on how to hold on to their family values despite intense international pressure. In fact, several days after the conference, the head of the Anglican Church called upon the Nigerian government to withdraw from the United Nations because of its push to further the cause of homosexuality.

In Nigeria, homosexual behavior is illegal and punishable by up to 14 years in prison. In the Islamic North, where Sharia law is enforced, gays can be sentenced to death by stoning.

According to Family Watch International, Nigeria is a role model.

[LeftinOH]

1. She never quits, does she? This is one "industry" that will finally move offshore

and then self-destruct when the locals begin to view FWI efforts as just another money-grubbing, Western exploitative endeavor.

[Initech]

2. How did I guess a group with "Family" in their name is responsible?

Gee these idiots are getting way too predictable. :crazy:

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Part of "The Family," the DC Religious Cult that runs the "Presidential Prayer Breakfasts" every Feb

and houses numerous Senators from both Parties. "The Family" are Dominionists. Dominionism's #1 enemies are GLBT ppl. & Muslims. They would like to "disappear" them. And post-9/11, with the unPatriot Act, they might be able to get it done, as soon as they get their stooge in the WH.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. The American 'faith community' owns this horror fully and totally

every last one of them, for every word they used to defend the haters and the invective breathing preachers. The promoters of all of those 'ministers' are culpable, every last damn one of them.