CHICAGO (RNS) — A trip to Ethpia planned by a Chigo-based tour pany for gay and lbian travelers is jeopardy amid a backlash primarily om relig groups the Ain untry, where homosexualy is crimalized.
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All bee Ware and many of his travelg panns are gay. You are ls than animals, ” reads one email Ware received this week as print of Toto Travel, which aniz trips for gay and lbian travelers, as well as their close iends and fay. Ware found Toto Tours nearly 30 years ago when he left his job workg at the Baha’i Natnal Center the Chigo area after -workers learned he was gay.
In that time, he said, Toto’s gay and lbian ctomers have had good experienc. They go, ‘Wow, we’ve never met gay people before, '” he said. “We are askg the ernment to stop the travelers wh the gay pany om visg our historil plac.
We are warng those Ethpians who are operatg wh this evil thg, ” Tiguhan Kis Tagay Tale, the secretary general of the Inter-Relig Council of Ethpia, said at a June 3 news nference. In Ethpia, homosexualy often is treated as a taboo subject and nmned on the basis of tradn, relign and law.
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Sexual activy by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is punishable wh jail time, and 97% of Ethpians thk homosexualy should not be accepted by society, acrdg to Pew Rearch Center data. “They n’t e to Ethpia and vis Lalibela and other historil plac bee homosexualy is a crime. Horne said even many “young liberally md Ethpians still have que nservative views on homosexualy that often dovetail wh the Orthodox Church.
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But, Ware said, he don’t thk the threats he’s received have to do wh the fact that many Toto travelers are gay or lbian. Ethpia recently weled Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar, who is openly gay, Ware poted out. “We weren’t there to promote homosexualy.
ETHPIA RELIG ANGER OVER US GAY TOUR PLAN
We weren’t there to beat the dm for the rights of the gay people of Ethpia. Meantime, Ware said, he is buoyed by the news Monday (June 10) that Botswana has overturned s law crimalizg homosexualy.
It jos 21 other Ain untri — such as Burka Faso, Congo and Mali‚ where homosexualy has never been agast the law.
Earlier this month, Angola also lifted s ban on homosexualy. Ethpian church groups have lled on the ernment to block a planned vis to the untry by a US-based pany that anis tours for gay people.