Lukashenko: Better to Be Dictator than Gay

Berlin has reacted with disgust to an insult by the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko about Germany's homosexual foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle. In response to Westerwelle's recent description of Lukashenko as "Europe's last dictator," Lukashenko said in an interview that it is "better to be a dictator than gay." Westerwelle said the remark "speaks for itself." Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Lukaschenko's comment "shows very clearly the position that the Belarus president takes in relation to basic rights. It's interesting to find out this way that Mr. Lukashenko too now classes himself as a dictator."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,819458,00.html
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