Posted on September 26, 2013

Nigerian Student Chibuihem Amalaha ‘Uses Science to Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong’

Lucy Sherriff, Huffington Post, September 14, 2013

A student in Nigeria is claiming he can prove gay marriage is wrong through science–and his scientific “breakthrough” is backed by his university.

Chibuihem Amalaha, who has won awards in his country for reporting on energy science and featured on various national television stations, says he used a magnet experiment to prove homosexuality is “improper”.

Amalaha says his “groundbreaking” experiments show the north and south poles of two magnets are attracted to each other while same poles repel each other.

He concludes this “means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove gay marriage wrong”.

Amalaha’s “research” has been commended by the University of Lagos, where he is a postgraduate student, and has been told by lecturers he will “win a Nobel prize one day”. The interview with the student was published on Nigerian website This Day Live, where his findings appear to be presented as fact.

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Nigeria’s laws on homosexual acts are notoriously harsh; current legislation punishes homosexual acts with up to 14 years in jail, or, in some northern regions of the country, death by stoning.