President Robert Mugabe on Saturday told
British Prime Minister David Cameron “to hell
with you” over his calls to respect gay
rights.”Nature is nature. It has created male
and female,” Mugabe told thousands of
supporters at his 88th birthday celebration
at a stadium in the eastern border town of
Mutare.
“You David Cameron, are you suggesting
that you don’t know that or is it some kind
of insanity or part of the culture of
Europeans.”In their newspapers, that’s one
of my sins. That I called (gays) worse than
pigs and dogs because pigs know there are
males and females. It’s even in the Bible that
you create through the system of marrying.
“That’s how we were born, so we reject that
outright and say to hell with you. I won’t
even call him a dog because my own dog
will complain and say, but what have I done.
.”Cameron said at the Commonwealth
summit last year that countries receiving
British aid should respect human rights,
including gay rights.The issue has re-
emerged as Zimbabwe drafts a new
constitution, with debate on whether to
follow neighbouring South Africa’s model
and include gay rights in the charter.
Mugabe urged youths to reject any
provision for gay rights in the new
charter.”We won’t accept that,” he said.
“There are other countries who have
accepted that and put it in their
constitutions.”"Please, young men and
women, you don’t have the freedom for
men to marry men and women to marry
women. You have the freedom for men to
marry women. That’s God’s freedom. That’s
what created you and me.”Mugabe has for
decades ranted against homosexuality.His
latest attack came as UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon repeated his calls for African
countries to respect gay rights, during a visit
to Zambia.
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