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| Gay rights activists call for Liberian president to veto bill criminalising same-sex marriage | Gay rights activists call for Liberian president to veto bill criminalising same-sex marriage |
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| Gay rights activists are starting an online petition calling for Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lose her Nobel Peace Prize if she signs into law a bill criminalising same-sex marriage. | Gay rights activists are starting an online petition calling for Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lose her Nobel Peace Prize if she signs into law a bill criminalising same-sex marriage. |
| Liberia's Senate passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday. | Liberia's Senate passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday. |
| Coenie Kukkuk of Mr Gay South Africa said on Wednesday that the group wants to hold Johnson Sirleaf to a promise she made to veto any bill on homosexuality, be it legalising it or toughening laws against it. | Coenie Kukkuk of Mr Gay South Africa said on Wednesday that the group wants to hold Johnson Sirleaf to a promise she made to veto any bill on homosexuality, be it legalising it or toughening laws against it. |
| He says the group will campaign for her 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked and the prize money repaid if she signs the bill. | He says the group will campaign for her 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked and the prize money repaid if she signs the bill. |
| While Sirleaf's position on the bill was not immediately clear, she has defended another Liberian law making homosexual sex a crime, as it is across most of Africa. | While Sirleaf's position on the bill was not immediately clear, she has defended another Liberian law making homosexual sex a crime, as it is across most of Africa. |
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