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Nigerian Cleric: Gays And Lesbians Should Be Put To Death | Last week, the Nigerian Senate passed a bill that “would criminalizes same-sex marriages — which were already illegal in Africa’s most populous nation — with penalties of up to 14 years in prison.” But for one conservative cleric, the measure does not go far enough. Vanguard is reporting that “Malam Abdulkadir Apaokagi, an Abuja-based Islamic scholar, on Sunday in Abuja, called for death penalty for same sex marriage in Nigeria.” “Homosexuality and lesbianism are just too dirty in the sight of Allah, those who engage in them deserve more than capital punishment. When they are killed, their corpse should also be mistreated,” he said. The bill has not yet passed the House and some lawmakers fear that the measure could endanger the country’s HIV/AIDS funding after U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron “threatened last month to withhold a type of bilateral aid to Commonwealth countries that continue to criminalize homosexuality.”