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Africans will not accept Western push for gay ‘marriage’: cardinal

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Africans will not accept Western dictates to condone homosexuality and gay “marriage,” a Senegalese cardinal told the press prior to a meeting of West African bishops last month. “Beware...we are living in a world where the Western world , especially the Americans, behave like people who have to think for the rest of the world, they have to decide for the rest of the world,” said Cardinal Théodore Adrien Sarr , Archbishop Emeritus of Dakar , as reported by   Ghanaweb . “But we say that no, you can’t decide for the rest of the world,” added Sarr, past president of the Regional Conference of West Africa, which was meeting in the Ghanaian capital of Accra for its plenary. Africans must be careful to not be indoctrinated to accept same-sex “marriage,” Sarr warned. “We also have our culture, traditions and so we need to avoid the several limitations of the Western world,” said the 79-year-old cardinal. “We need to do things based in our traditions, our practices and custom

Nigeria to Western nations: We’d sooner refuse aid than legalize same-sex “marriage”

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ABUJA, December 10, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Nigerian government has put the  Western world  on notice that if the cost of accepting aid is to allow same-sex couples to “marry,” that’s a price the country is unwilling to pay.  Nigeria’s House of Representatives recently unanimously approved a bill banning same-sex unions, despite threats from the  Obama administration  and  United Kingdom Prime Minister   David Cameron  that they would consider withholding aid if the country didn’t recognize gay rights.  The bill would impose a 14-year prison sentence on anyone who enters a “same-sex marriage contract or civil union” or aids and abets such an action.  Public displays of affection between homosexuals would result in a ten-year jail sentence.  The bill also bans gay clubs and organizations. “[Same-sex ‘marriage’] is alien to our society and culture and it must not be imported,” said  House majority leader  Mulikat Adeola-Akande. “This practice has no place in our culture, r

‘Let them cut off aid:’ African countries revolt against UK threat to cut aid over homosexuality

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Image via Wikipedia Africa – The president of Ghana is leading the charge as several African countries are making their stand against Britain’s threat that they either legalize homosexual acts or be excluded from financial aid. “I, as president of this nation will never initiate or support any attempts to legalize homosexuality in Ghana,”  said  President John Evans Atta Mills in an official statement to the UK government under Prime Minister David Cameron last Wednesday. Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia at the end of October, which Prime Minister Cameron attended, the issue of homosexuality in developing countries was raised in an internal report that recommended that all Commonwealth countries end bans on homosexual activity, reported the BBC. Cameron,  speaking  to The Andrew Marr Show in Perth during his stay in Australia, said, “British aid should have more strings attached.” “Britain is now one