Due to the strong outbreak of the deadly virus of Ebola, the gay community of Liberia has gone under attack from certain religious groups in the West Africa nation, who claim Ebola is a punish from God for the country's supposed immorality.
Ebola and gays go hand in hand, according to some religious groups in Liberia. A new Reuters report has emerged from the West African country, saying that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) men and women across the country have been scared twice as much as the rest of the population during the Ebola outbreak: not only could they contract the virus, but they could also be attacked by citizens due to growing homophobia during the health crisis, as many now think Ebola and gays have some relation.
In the last months since the Ebola outbreak, it has been said by religious authorities that Ebola's a "gay" virus, or at least one that comes as a punishment for hosting a homosexual population in the country.
The Ebola-gay association is something of a reminder of how things looked like when the AIDS virus first broke out in the 80s, as it was also considered to be a "gay" disease at the beginning, when there was little or no scientific information regarding the virus.
Authorities of the Catholic and Anglican churches of Liberia made the Ebola-gay association. The Liberian Council of Churches said in a statement earlier this year that God was angry with the people of Liberia, since it was a nation of "corruption" and "immoral acts" - then going on to say that Ebola was a punishment for these actions.
"Where are we going as Liberians if we are advocating for homosexuality? Are we not calling for curses upon ourselves?" said Lewis Zeigler, the Archbishop of the Catholic Church of Liberia, in a statement earlier this year to The Liberian Observer "How will a man marry his fellow man, this is an abomination. These are the same things that brought down Sodom and Gomorrah"
The West Africa nation has been among the most affected countries in the recent outbreak of the virus, with over 4,500 cases of the disease and over 2,700 deaths.
