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Same-sex marriage "un-Nigerian"
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A new law, if passed, will prohibit same-sex marriages in Nigeria.
Anyone who has entered into a gay marriage would be liable to three years in jail. Furthermore, anyone who “aids and abets” such a union would face five years’ imprisonment.
Gay activist Rashidi Williams of the Queer Alliance told a committee of Nigeria’s National Assembly: “I did not choose to be gay. It is trial enough to live in this country. We should not create more laws to make us suffer.”
The Church of Nigeria said that same-sex marriage “apart from being ungodly, was unscriptural, unnatural, unprofitable, unhealthy, uncultural, un-African and un-Nigerian.
“It is a perversion, a deviation and an aberration that is capable of engendering moral and social holocaust in this country. Outlawing it is to ensure the continued existence of this nation.”
Homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria, and is punishable by up to fourteen years’ imprisonment
