Ethiopia Wants to Teach “Gays” a Lesson

Religious leaders, representing various denominations in Ethiopia gathered Monday in the country’s capital of Addis Ababa to urge the country’s lawmakers to constitutionally ban being gay.

Almost a dozen clerics said outlawing being gay simply wasn’t enough. Current Ethiopian law forbids gay sex and prescribes a six month jail sentence as punishment, but the constitution never mentions the issue.

Defending their case, the religious leaders said being gay is “the pinnacle of immorality” and stated gays were responsible for an increase in sexual attacks on boys and young men.

Abune Paolos, the leader of Ethiopia’s Christian Orthodox Church stated;

“This is something very strange in Ethiopia, the land of the Bible that condemns this very strongly. For people to act in this manner they have to be dumb, stupid like animals.  We strongly condemn this behavior. They (gays and lesbians) have to be disciplined and their acts discriminated, they have to be given a lesson.”