An anti-gay Nigerian pastor’s arrival in New Zealand has come with a ramping up of homophobic hatred on his Facebook page. Enoch Adeboye has posted a 3 News story about his arrival and views on his Facebook account, which has resulted in torrent of comments from his followers, who call him “Daddy”. “Even male goats will not go after another male.it will go for a female. And we say humans are higher animals. I strongly doubt if these gay ppl are higher than animals,” one supporter writes. “Man to man woman to woman? Dats rubbish,” posts another person, while another says this ‘gay thing’ is a “virus”. “Anybody in support of ‘gayism’ is anti-Christ,” says another. “Is there a pro-gay pastor apart from the devil?” is among the questions, while the comments go on and on and on in the likes of: “Gay is satanic”, “the gays should stop terrorising the rest of the world”, “we shall never allow that garbage”, along with mistruths about incest and bestiality and claims that gay people should be put to death, thrown out of society or sent to mental institutions. The most bizarre claim is that marriage equality will cause the human race to fall to such a low population level that wild animals will take over and eat all humans. Media freedoms are also clearly not respected with the 3 News journalist who wrote the article threatened and cursed. “The writer of this article is Devil's agent,” one person claims. “You shall never be forgiven...the writer shall be cursed,” says another. Adeboye will speak to what is expected to be a large crowd at the Victory Convention Centre in Freemans Bay in Auckland from 5PM.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Friday, 15th November 2013 - 2:13pm