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Liberian President remains firm: no legalization of homosexual acts

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Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf poses for a photo in the Pentagon Oct. 24, 2007, before sitting down to substantive, bilateral security discussions. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ROME, March 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In an interview with the UK Guardian newspaper yesterday, the president of Liberia , Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , said that the question of legalization of homosexual acts is off the table, despite criticism and international pressure. “We like ourselves just the way we are,” she said. “We’ve got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve,” President Johnson Sirleaf added. The interview was being conducted jointly with Tony Blair , former UK Prime Minister and now head of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), a group that assists African governments meet their economic and social reform goals. The group is currently working in Rwanda, Sierra Leone , Liberia and Guinea to help achieve targets in public services, rural

I'm not coming to dinner!

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Image via Wikipedia COPENHAGEN - The leader of a Faroe Islands political party took a stand in favor of sexual morality on Tuesday when he refused to dine with Iceland Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir and her lesbian partner during a state visit to his country. Sigurdardóttir, who has lead Iceland since 2009, is a practicing lesbian who "married" her partner Jónina Leósdóttir in a highly publicized ceremony in June of this year.  Calling the presence of Leósdóttir a "provocation," Member of Parliament Jenis av Rana refused to attend at dinner in honor of the prime minister. "My party is formally against homosexual marriage ," said av Rana. "If I were to participate in the official dinner, it would be the same as saying that I support a union that is contrary to nature and condemned by the Bible. And that is something I will not risk under any circumstances." Although av Rana belongs to a more conservative Christian political party, hi