Public Displays Of Affection For Same-Sex Couples Now A Crime In Zimbabwe
Joanna Wypior - All Headline News Staff Reporter Zimbabwe (AHN) - Same-sex couples in Zimbabwe who display affection for one another in public by kissing or hugging will be prosecuted by a new law that is meant to crackdown on gay behavior, according to reports. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has dismissed such intimate embraces by gay couples as conduct best suitable for "dogs and pigs." The new law is being introduced in the country's Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, which introduces a plethora of 15 new crimes into Zimbabwe's statute books, which was passed by the country's parliament earlier this week. The new act has also redefined the definition of sodomy as any "act involving contact between two males that would be regarded by a reasonable person as an indecent act." It was early defined as only to anal sexual intercourse between two males. Furthermore, the government in Zimbabwe has rejected all calls to abolish sodomy laws in Zimbabwe's statute books, which have become outdated in other parts of the world as well as in Africa. Despite President Mugabe's tough stance on homosexuality in his country, a number of his cabinet ministers and former cabinet ministers are reportedly gay.
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