Tuesday, July 05, 2011

India's health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad: Vile Homophobe of the Day

More government officials spewing hatred.

Coming from the average uneducated commentator in a CBC news story, it would be par for the course. Coming from a government official, it has to be viewed as idiotic at best, dangerous at worst.

India's health minister has sparked a furious row over comments in which he described homosexuality as a "disease".

Ghulam Nabi Azad told a conference on HIV/Aids that gay sex was "unnatural".

One leading Aids campaigner said the minister was "living on another planet". The UN has also condemned his comments.

Gay sex was decriminalised in the country in a landmark judgement in 2009 but anti-homosexual discrimination remains widespread.

Mr Azad told the meeting in Delhi on Monday that homosexuality "is a disease which has come from other countries.

"Even though it is unnatural, it exists in our country and is now fast-spreading, making it tough to detect," he said.

He said men having sex with other men "should not happen, but does".


Much like the idiotic utterances of the homophobic.

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