The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) banned and fined a Radio station for broadcasting a pro gay rights content during its breakfast program.
During the station's morning program known as 'Power Breakfast', a segment dubbed 'Jicho la Ng'ombe', featured reporting of Obama's inauguration and a positive mention of the prayer for inclusivity, which included LGBT people.
Regulators alleged that the station was aiming to have Tanzanians 'sensitised' to the ideas in order to 'copy' them.
TCRA fined the station 5 million Tanzanian Shilling (€ 2,350 US$ 3,087) to be paid within a one month period, over claims it provoked the breach of peace.
The watchdog also took the opportunity to issue serious warnings to presenters who would go against the laws and regulations of broadcasting.
Speaking to journalists in Dar es Salaam on 26th February, TCRA Content Committee deputy chairman Walter Bgoya cautioned that the regulators will not hesitate to revoke licenses of any radio station that will repeat the mistake of breaching the peace.
He said that licenses would be 'revoked for the benefit of the public'.
He said this was contrary to the laws governing content of programmes.
The 'Jicho la Ng'ombe' segment that featured in Power Breakfast programme was banned because it 'supported homosexual marriages' while knowing that there is no law supporting 'the practices' in Tanzania, the chairman said.
TCRA warned Clouds FM's management from establishing a similar segment in the programme saying by doing so they will be breaking the law and that stringent measures would be taken against them.
TCRA said every radio station was given a chance to defend itself but the content committee was not satisfied with their defense grounds and decided to punish them as per regulations.
Section 158 of Tanzania's penal code also forbids same-sex marriage with up to seven years imprisonment.
Responding to a 2011 statement by British prime minister David Cameron, that the UK may cut aid to countries persecuting LGBT people, Tanzania's foreign affairs minister, Bernard Membe, said: 'Tanzania will never accept Cameron's proposal because we have our own moral values. Homosexuality is not part of our culture and we will never legalise it...
'We are not ready to allow any rich nation to give us aid based on unacceptable conditions simply because we are poor.
'If we are denied aid by one country, it will not affect the economic status of this nation and we can do without UK aid'.
According to the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project, 95% of Tanzanian residents believe that homosexuality is a way of life that society should not accept, which was the seventh-highest rate of non-acceptance in the 45 countries surveyed.
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Asking for equal rights is not asking for more, it is asking for the rights others already have. It is lkie in the dark ages of slavery. Setting slaves free was not a gift, it was their right to be treated equally... specially in Africa people should understand!
Slavery was abolished because it became uneconomic to keep a slave. Today in modern mines you will find giant machines that can pick up 200 tons of ore in one grab, conveyors take it from crushing mills to giant bulk carriers and from there to where ever in the world they want. The same applies to farming and to the shipping of grain. No longer put into Hessian bags and piled up high and carried onto ships on a mans back it is all done by conveyor belt, and slaves were not set free out of the goodness of anybodies heart. Yes, in America you fought a war over it but it was doomed to end because slavery became uneconomic. Today all cargo is by bulk carriers and shipping containers. And why especially in Africa Fred? Slavery had consumed Europe too and after it ended a man was still bound to where he was born needing permission to go anywhere. Most men never travelled further than five miles from where they were born unless they were conscripted into an army for the honour of climbing up a ladder and a gruesome death but some sharp or hot oil or molten lead.
I am talking about equality man!
Slaves were eventually set free mainly because of the progress of technology. Now have a look at mining operations and consider these giant machines that can scoop up 200 tons of ore in one go. It has become uneconomic to keep slaves and that goes to show how little progress that has been made. In South Africa a new set of regulations have been posted but the penalties have not. It is illegal for a witch to fly on her broom above a certain height. You may think that I am joking but it came...
…Slaves were eventually set free mainly because of the progress of technology. Now have a look at mining operations and consider these giant machines that can scoop up 200 tons of ore in one go. It has become uneconomic to keep slaves and that goes to show how little progress that has been made. In South Africa a new set of regulations have been posted but the penalties have not. It is illegal for a witch to fly on her broom above a certain height. You may think that I am joking but it came across on the news. So the sins of man are many and with so much ignorance he has a long way to go. The LRA has spread terror in the Congo as well as other countries and yet they consist of mainly children and they have behaved very brutally.
Tanzania is so far behind in their civil rights for the LGBT community.........hope everyone signs this Cause.
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If it is wrong here then it is wrong there, don't you get it. God is god of all and everything.
No, you cannot demand respect. Respect has to be earned and not demanded. And how can anyone who does not respect god expect respect.
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God has said that for a man to lie with a man as with a woman in an abomination. So then you appeal to us to give you respect. God has already judged you. No homosexuals will be permitted in heaven.
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (NIV, Romans 1:25-27)
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (NIV, Romans 1:25-27)
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. “ http://youtu.be/xMzmQRqNgL4
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (NIV, Romans 1:25-27)
http://youtu.be/MqK9LkqAgw0
http://youtu.be/qovxuW_AiZE