Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has sparked outrage after describing gay couples as "worse than animals". The 37 year-old was asked about his views on gay marriage, outlawed in the
Philippines, he offered his shocking views. He said.
"It's common sense. Do you see animals that go male to male or female to female? So the animals are even better," Pacquiao told local broadcaster TV5 in an interview aired this week.
"Because they know how to distinguish from male to male or female to female. Right? Now if we allow male to male or female to female, then that makes us worse than animals."
He
is currently in the process of re-inventing himself in his homeland as
he moves into politics, running for a senate seat in the country's May
elections. When asked about his views on gay marriage, outlawed in the
Philippines, he offered his shocking views.
It is not the first time Pacquiao has offered his
feelings on the subject. He is quoted in a National Conservative
Examiner article from 2012 declaring: "God only expects man and woman to
be together and to be legally married."
Pacquiao has immersed
himself in Christianity in recent years and claims his new-found faith
as the inspiration for turning him from a free-spending gambler into a
devoted family man.
Gay marriage is outlawed in the Philippines,
with Catholicism the country's main faith. Gay marriages are officiated
at small churches but such unions are not recognised by the Catholic church, nor the state.
Pacquaio last fought in May last year, losing by unanimous decision to Floyd Mayweather in their $400million superfight.
He next heads into the ring in April, when he takes on Timothy Bradley in Las Vegas, in what is said to be the Filipino's final fight, before devoting himself entirely to his political ambitions.
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