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Mugabe signals gay crackdown
03 Mar 2014 at 05:25hrs | Views
President Mugabe has hinted that Government will soon deal decisively with the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe which has been calling for recognition of "gay rights" locally.
Speaking at a cocktail party the First Family hosted to celebrate the wedding of Bona Omar Mugabe to Simba Chikore at their private Borrowdale Brooke residence on Saturday, President Mugabe said his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni, who recently signed an anti-gay law, was fighting a just fight.
Mugabe said that Zimbabwe would not allow children to grow up thinking that there was an alternative to the God-prescribed marriage system.
"Tinoda kuti vana vedu vakudzwe vachiziva kuti mukukura kwavo (We want our children to grow up knowing that) they will mature and marry in the same way as Simba has done, as Omar has done. Zvino kune zvima group, I understand muno mune chigroup chehomesexuality (There are groups, I understand there is a group of homosexuality).
"Handina kunge ndachiziva ndakaudzwa marimwezuro kuti kune chigroup ichocho saka tinoda kuchiwona kuti ndivanani varimo (I did not know about the group, I was just told a day before yesterday that there is that group so I want to check who they are)," he said.
"Ndichatumira vakomana vangu kuti vatarise kuti ndivanani vari muchigroup ichochi, (I will send my boys to check the people involved in this group)."
Mugabe dismissed the notion peddled by countries such as the United States, that "gay rights" were human rights.
President Mugabe highlighted that the recognition of homosexuality was in itself a blatant disregard of the God-given institution of marriage between a man and a woman.
Threats by the United States to cut aid to Uganda to protest the newly-promulgated law was a clear sign that the West lacked honour, he said.
"It's a terrible world we are in, a terrible world where people want to do things that they feel will enhance their own interests.
"They want to tell us for example that it's a violation of human rights, ndozvirikuitwa Museveni iye zvinoizvi, for you, for us to refuse man to man interaction, kuti murume nemurume vachate. Mukaramba izvozvo you are breaching human rights.
"But which of these is a breach of human rights?
"Kubvuma kuti murume nemurume vachate kuchengeta human rights ikoko? Hakusi kutyora human rights? The human right you have as a man is to marry another woman not to get another man to marry.
"Ndozvatinoramba izvozvo. Zvonzi makarambirei izvozvo we won't give you aid.
"Ndozvakaitwa Musevenika akaita law in Uganda just now to punish those who want to take other men as their what . . . I can't say wives because a wife must a woman. In the Bible there is no wife who is described as a man. Husbands are husbands and wives are wives," he said.
Speaking at a cocktail party the First Family hosted to celebrate the wedding of Bona Omar Mugabe to Simba Chikore at their private Borrowdale Brooke residence on Saturday, President Mugabe said his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni, who recently signed an anti-gay law, was fighting a just fight.
Mugabe said that Zimbabwe would not allow children to grow up thinking that there was an alternative to the God-prescribed marriage system.
"Tinoda kuti vana vedu vakudzwe vachiziva kuti mukukura kwavo (We want our children to grow up knowing that) they will mature and marry in the same way as Simba has done, as Omar has done. Zvino kune zvima group, I understand muno mune chigroup chehomesexuality (There are groups, I understand there is a group of homosexuality).
"Handina kunge ndachiziva ndakaudzwa marimwezuro kuti kune chigroup ichocho saka tinoda kuchiwona kuti ndivanani varimo (I did not know about the group, I was just told a day before yesterday that there is that group so I want to check who they are)," he said.
"Ndichatumira vakomana vangu kuti vatarise kuti ndivanani vari muchigroup ichochi, (I will send my boys to check the people involved in this group)."
Mugabe dismissed the notion peddled by countries such as the United States, that "gay rights" were human rights.
President Mugabe highlighted that the recognition of homosexuality was in itself a blatant disregard of the God-given institution of marriage between a man and a woman.
Threats by the United States to cut aid to Uganda to protest the newly-promulgated law was a clear sign that the West lacked honour, he said.
"It's a terrible world we are in, a terrible world where people want to do things that they feel will enhance their own interests.
"They want to tell us for example that it's a violation of human rights, ndozvirikuitwa Museveni iye zvinoizvi, for you, for us to refuse man to man interaction, kuti murume nemurume vachate. Mukaramba izvozvo you are breaching human rights.
"But which of these is a breach of human rights?
"Kubvuma kuti murume nemurume vachate kuchengeta human rights ikoko? Hakusi kutyora human rights? The human right you have as a man is to marry another woman not to get another man to marry.
"Ndozvatinoramba izvozvo. Zvonzi makarambirei izvozvo we won't give you aid.
"Ndozvakaitwa Musevenika akaita law in Uganda just now to punish those who want to take other men as their what . . . I can't say wives because a wife must a woman. In the Bible there is no wife who is described as a man. Husbands are husbands and wives are wives," he said.
Source - herald
