BOTSWANA – A politician in Botswana has stated that he agrees with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s views on homosexuality.
Pono Moatlhodi, who is the deputy speaker of the Botswana National Assembly, told a January meeting on HIV prevention that he would “never tolerate” gays and lesbians.
The Botswana Gazette reported that Mr Moatlhodi said: “On this point I would agree with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe who once described that behavior as that of western dogs; I don’t like those gay people and will never tolerate them. They are demonic and evil.
“When there are so many women in this country, why would anyone choose to have sex with another man? The Bible does not agree with such a thing and therefore it is evil; if we give prisoners condoms, are we are now saying they are free?”
The newspaper went on to report that he said that if he had the power, he would have gay people killed.
President Mugabe once stated that gay people were “worse than pigs and dogs” and has resisted efforts to include gay rights protections in Zimbabwe’s new constitution.
