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Zimbabwean parliament roiled by gay marriage discussion
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Dec 2006- Harare- The trend of ‘outing’ figures in government has
reached Zimbabwe. A parliament discussion of south Africa’s recent
legalization of same-sex unions this week when an opposition legislator
accused several Zimbabwean officials of being gay.
Homosexuality is still a crime in
Zimbabwe , reaction from the acting leader of the ruling party was
swift. Emmerson Mnangagwa said, In Zimbabwe, we are very clear that men
marry women and women get married to men, Zimbabwe prohibits marriages
of similar sexes, he went on to say we have the duty to criticize laws
passed by another parliament.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
earlier this year threatened to arrest any clergy who performed gay
marriages in the country and warned his supporters of the evils of
homosexuality, saying “Leave whites to do that.”
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