{"id":24672,"date":"2022-06-21T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/im-not-being-paid-to-promote-gay-rights-in-zambia-laura-miti"},"modified":"2022-06-21T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:15:56","slug":"im-not-being-paid-to-promote-gay-rights-in-zambia-laura-miti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/im-not-being-paid-to-promote-gay-rights-in-zambia-laura-miti","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not being paid to promote gay rights in Zambia-Laura Miti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Outspoken civil society activist Laura Miti has denied allegations that she is being paid to promote gay rights in Zambia. Despite denying the allegations, Ms. Miti has said Zambia should decriminalize gay sex in Zambia.<\/p>\n

Featuring on ZNBC Television\u2019s Sunday Interview, Ms. Miti said she cannot receive money to champion the agenda she does not believe in. Ms. Miti, however, said Zambia should stop jailing people over gay sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not pushing for gay rights. Let me speak about this, you know to have gay rights you have to put them in the constitution. I don\u2019t think we should. I don\u2019t think we are ready. I don\u2019t think you push a country to put in their constitution what generally they are not ready for because that constitution becomes academic. And if you look at western countries, it took them hundreds of years to get to the point when they could put gay rights in the constitution so I don\u2019t think Zambia and Africa to a large extent is ready for that,\u201d Ms. Miti said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy point is, we must not put people in jail. That is the only point. Let\u2019s make small movements and the small movements for me are that you cannot break down hotel rooms. Just think of all the people we have gotten in prison. They had private relationships. It is them two consenting adults doing whatever they do. Gay rights currently illegal just like apartheid was legal. You see what I mean, apartheid was legal, and does that make it just? So all I ask for is that they should not be put in jail. That is the only thing. We should change the law and not make this criminal. Let\u2019s decriminalize it,\u201d Ms. Miti said. The activist insisted that she does not pursue wealth in her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy response to being paid to push an agenda is that anybody who says you have been paid to say something usually has a price themselves and it is very sad. I just think to myself if you think I have been paid it means you could be paid. You know what I mean; you could be paid to say something you don\u2019t believe in. I could never be paid to say something I don\u2019t believe. You know if I was being paid I would marvelously be rich. Luckily for me I don\u2019t pursue wealth, I don\u2019t pursue wealth. I don\u2019t wanna be rich but even if I wanted to be rich I don\u2019t just have the kind of money so I genuinely believe that we should not have people sitting in jail. That is my only issue. We should not have people sitting in jail, arrested over having sex,\u201d she said. Ms. Miti said Zambia should direct its energy to fighting rampant non consensual sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you what I think we should be dealing with which really breaks my heart. You know right now the sex problem we have in the country is non consensual sex. In this country, young girls and even girls of the age of consent routinely have sex they do not want because they are looking for a job, because they are trying to enter police, because they are trying to get any of these hierarchical institutions. You have young girls 10, 11, 12\u2026 of living in homes which are probably of not their parents. Raped by their parents, raped by their uncles. Issues being resolved at home. Do you know why? Because as a country we believe that heterosexual sex, we seem to understand man. We have so many broken people over non consensual sex. Last week, someone came into my inbox and she named a human resource manager of a huge private company in Zambia who has pushed her to have sex with him unless. Otherwise she won\u2019t get the job. What I am saying is that as a country we are very myopic. These issues that are affecting us like extreme poverty, we are not discussing them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On the same TV Show, Ms. Miti called for the quick enactment of the Access to Information Law in Zambia. She further said the proposed amendment of the Public Order Act should be tabled in the next session of Parliament<\/p>\n

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