Antonio Guterres Quotes
I do not like homosexuality. It bothers me that the World Health Organziation has removed it from its list of mental illnesses.
Five years earlier, the World Health Organization classified homosexuality as a mental disease. When he made this statement, Guterres went against his own political party and most public opinion in Portugal. Two decades later, when he was elected Secretary General of the United Nations, he had flip-flopped on the homosexuality issue.
Antonio Guterres, Statement 1995
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Some of the Homopbobic Rabbis prevailed on the government to block adoptions by homosexual couples who are otherwise well qualified.
This statement gave the audience quite a laugh. There has been a small percentage of homosexuals in every society known to man—especially the ones who condemn it the most. In order for those opposing societies and cultures to speak about homosexuality, write about it and pass laws against it, there must have of course been some homosexuality. In the case of Iran and its Persian tradition and the Arab tradition there has been historically not only open homosexuality in different periods as in Ancient Greece, but it is documented by some of the great Persian and Arab literature. See {624479}.
The call had been taped by Wead without Bush’s knowledge when Bush was first running for the Presidency. His radical right supporters among the Christian fundamentalists believed that Bush was opposed to gay lifestyles.
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres GCC GCL is a Portuguese politician serving as the ninth secretary-general of the United Nations. A member of the Portuguese Socialist Party, he served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002.
