Homosexuality 'destroys nations' says Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe urged young people to "damn" homosexuality in the same way his government does and not to offend nature by engaging in same-sex relationships.

"That destroys nations, apart from it being a filthy, filthy disease," he said.

Mugabe, never exactly gay-friendly, ramped up the rhetoric during the recent campaign, calling gays "worse than pigs, goats, and birds,"  and criticizing President Obama's support for gay rights, asking if he was "born out of homosexuality."