NEW YORK, December 13, 2019 (C-Fam) — A war of words has broken out between the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote and the government of Zambia over that conservative country's laws on homosexual behavior. The U.S. Ambassador has even threatened to withhold financial aid to this AIDS-ravaged
African country.
“I saw this giant headline — gay sex for fifteen years — as the government pounding its chest saying 'we don't allow this' and intimidating the ten percent of your population that was born homosexual,” Foote said while grinning and motioning his arms like a gorilla beating his chest. He was commenting on the recent conviction of two men for engaging in homosexual acts and the media coverage in Zambia's official newspapers.
Foote called the conviction of the two men “horrifying” and “oppressive” in a press statement on November 29. Zambian President Edgar Lungu pushed back. “If there are such countries which will allow bestiality, let them do it but not [...]
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