Ellen-johnson-sirleaf / Queerty

Liberian President Comes Under Attack Over Gay-Rights Stance

By: victor hoff
On: Sep 6, 2012
Tagged: Africa, africa ellen sirleaf, Christians, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ellen sirleaf, Gay Rights, Kortu K. Brown, liberia, muslims, Religion, Rev. Dr. Kortu K. Brown, same sex marriage, the guardian

4 Comments

No. 1 · Derek Williams
Human rights are not democratically determined. If they were, then African Americans would have only 14% of the rights and whites 86%, based on their numerical weighting.

Of course equal rights are exceedingly difficult to claim when 98% of the population is against you, as in Libera, but that shouldn’t deter us from trying to win people over.

Sep 6, 2012 at 10:00 am · @Reply ·
No. 2 · jwrappaport
To those who say missionary work is benign charity, here are the fruits of that charity several hundred years ex post.

Sep 6, 2012 at 11:36 am · @Reply ·
No. 3 · kayakriver
@Derek Williams: democracy doesn’t work all the time.

Sep 6, 2012 at 2:23 pm · @Reply ·
No. 4 · Freddie27
Liberia is recovering from cvil war, is desperately poor and in the throes of the AIDS pandemic. Don’t they have bigger fish to fry than criminalising same sex marriage?

Sep 7, 2012 at 5:33 am · @Reply ·