At least it wasn't HIV this time. I guess it does confirm though that Ebola is now the new HIV. This is exactly what happened early on in the 1980's, very much so in the church ruled parts of the conservative US.
Well Liberia is the first off the blocks this time. Officially I guess. As it seems it's a very united church announcement. Yes folks, the best way to treat Ebola is to kill the gays....... No doubt the christian fundies in the west will jump on this one.
Earlier this year, the Liberian Council of Churches said in a statement that God was angry with Liberians "over corruption and immoral acts" such as homosexuality, and that Ebola was a punishment.
In May, Archbishop Lewis Zeigler of the Catholic Church of Liberia said that "one of the major transgressions against God for which He may be punishing Liberia is the act of homosexuality," local media reported.
Francois Patuel, Amnesty International's representative in West Africa, said there had been reports of threats and violence against the LGBTI community in Monrovia since the incendiary remarks made by the local Christian leaders.
"Amnesty has received pictures of cars that reportedly belong to gays with their windows smashed as well as reports that gays have been forced from their homes and had to go into hiding," Patuel told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Neither the Catholic Church nor the Liberian Council of Churches could be reached in Monrovia. Representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Episcopal Church did not immediately respond to a request for comment. more
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