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.
Yes it’s still illegal to be gay in some countries and apparently the penalties aren’t harsh enough in Liberia. What a wonderful representative of peace this lady turned out to be…
