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EU sparks outrage by financing homosexualist groups in Cameroon

Government officials and citizen organizations in the African nation of Cameroon are denouncing a decision by the European Union to send over 300,000 euros to three local organizations that work against the nation’s anti-sodomy laws, reports LifeSiteNews.com.

Homosexual sodomy is illegal in Cameroon and carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.

On January 13, the Cameroonian Minister of Exterior Relations, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, met with the European Union representative, Raoul Mateus Paula, to express the “the disapproval of the government [to this] financing.”

“The people of Cameroon are not ready, nor disposed to go in the direction of the development of these practices in their territory,” Ayissi told the Cameroon Tribune.

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[01/26/2011]

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