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"Nigeria`s Federal Executive Council has approved a bill baning same-sex marriages, and penalizing those who participate in them and those who perform them.
The Anglican Church is a strong backer of the proposal, which now goes to Parliament. In five northern provinces governed by Muslim Sharia law, all adulterous sexual relationships are a crime, punishable by being stoned to death.
'The Anglican Church in Nigeria has been in the forefront of condemning the attitude because the church sees it as an aberration, in other words, we see it as against the norm. We see it as an abomination,' the Rev. Tunde Popoola, a spokesman for the Anglican Church of Nigeria, told Voice of America.
Under the bill, anyone engaging in homosexual acts or marrying a same-sex partner would be eligible for a five-year prison sentence, as would anyone who presides at a same-sex wedding. Even participating in a homosexual rally or demonstration would be a criminal act. Justice Minister Bayo Ojo said Nigerian officials became concerned after the South African Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage in December."[Snippet]
