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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...

Image via Wikipedia U.S. ambassadors in the tiny African country of Sierra Leone have been mulling ways to soften the communities there towards homosexuality, including exploiting the specter of related human rights abuses in Uganda , leaked cables reveal. The unclassified December 2009 cable, part of last week’s Wikileaks dump, originates from the American embassy in the capital city of Freetown and is entitled “ Sexual Orientation in Sierra Leone: Quietly in the Closet.”  The cable’s author notes that the gay rights movement has struggled to maintain a foothold in a culture where homosexuality is viewed as primarily a cause of Western influence and “an abomination in the same category as pedophilia, bestiality, and witchcraft.” A typical gay rights campaign, states the communique, is unlikely to take root: while such a “human rights” program “might help sensitize the population to support gay rights,” it could also end up inciting an angry backlash. To remedy the situation,...