Stephen Green, the director of campaign group Christian Voice, has spoken out in support of the death penalty for homosexuals.
His comments come almost a month after Uganda proposed a law that would make gay sex punishable by a life sentence or even death.
In a statement that will outrage human rights groups, Stephen Green claimed:
- Gay people who have sex knowing they are HIV positive should be given the death penalty because they havecommitted murder;
- Capital punishment is acceptable because it is ordained by God in the Bible;
- Britain’s laws promote perversion because they do not make homosexuality a criminal offence.
Green said: As a Christian I agree with the death penalty and I don’t see why infecting someone with HIV should be treated in any other way than if you killed someone with a knife. It is extraordinary to think it is OK to infect someone else with HIV and get away with it.
Green’s organisation is urging other Christians to support the Ugandan people in their determination to rid their nation of foreign homosexual proselytisation. It claims gay westerners are travelling to the country to convertUgandans. Green added: This law is an understandable reaction to the pressure from human rights activists and homosexuals who are coming to the country as sex tourists.
Mohammed Abbasi 