“We should round up all the gays and send them to Uganda to be shot!”

This was a friend of mine speaking, an educated entrepreneur in his 30s, a devout Christian from Nigeria. A homophobe.

We need to protect the children, families and the culture of Nigeria, he continued. Handing out the harshest punishments to homosexuals, he said, would be an important deterrent to the younger generation.

Read more in The New York Times.