Zambia: Scott Confirms Gay Stance Hurting PF

1 July 2011

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) vice-president Guy Scott’s admission that people in many places around the country are asking about PF leader Michael Sata’s intention to introduce homosexuality is confirmation of how negatively the issue has affected the PF campaigns, Forum for Leadership Search executive director Edwin Lifwekelo has said.

Mr Lifwekelo said it was pleasing that Dr Scott confirmed what some PF members of the central committee (MCC) had recently revealed about the challenges they were facing in their campaigns following Mr Sata’s open support for homosexuality.

On Wednesday, Dr Scott confirmed in his Post newspaper column that villagers had been asking him if it was true that Mr Sata intended to sanction marriages of men with their fellow men and women with their fellow women.

Recently, some PF MCCs told the Times in a walk-in interview that Mr Sata’s plans to introduce homosexuality in Zambia had made PF campaigns difficult as everywhere they went people were asking why they should allow the PF leader to rule Zambia when his sole agenda was to promote unchristian values.

“It is good that the people countrywide have received this information about Mr Sata’s plans to introduce homosexuality in the country.

“What is pleasing is the fact that even Dr Scott has confirmed that he was also asked the same question by the villagers wherever he goes,” Mr Lifwekelo said.

He said that should make the PF worried because like Mr Sata, Dr Scott, who is the party’s vice-president, had also failed to give a concrete answer apart from trying to play it lightly by saying “only when we work out how to produce the babies.”

Mr Lifwekelo said Zambians had made up their minds against the PF because they were against harmful practices such as homosexuality.

Since the PF leader told some Danish journalists that Zambia had laws that recognised homosexuality and that what was only needed was to implement them, Mr Sata has received wide condemnation from the Church and the general public.

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