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Nigerians urged to support law against gay marriage
25 Feb 2007-
Nigeria- A call had been made to Nigerians especially the Muslims to
urge their elected representatives in the National House of Assembly to
support the Bill banning gay marriages in Nigeria.
Making the call
recently, a group MPAC, in a press release made available to Sunday
Tribune recalled the Federal Executive Council’s approval of a bill that
prohibits same-sex marriages and relationships adding that the practice
in whatever form must be discouraged.
The group, while
commending the Federal Government’s unyielding stance on the matter,
explained that Federal Government’s sponsored bill against the act has
made the country different from those that have legalized the
homosexuality.
The release further
explained that the Nigerian House of Representative committee conducting
the public hearing stated that they have received over 100 petitions
from human rights groups asking that the proposed bill be withdrawn.
“Many of these concerned groups”, the release added “insist, it is a
mark of a civilized society to have unfettered liberties and ignore
religious precepts.”
But MPAC, the release
continued, “agrees that equality and social justice are human realities,
not fiction,” stating that, “when human reality itself is out of tune
with these eternal values, the result is great sorrow, misery and
violence”.
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