Robert Mugabe criticises Barack Obama's gay rights stance Mr Mugabe told cheering supporters in Mutare that supporting homosexuality was counterproductive. "Then we have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality," Mr Mugabe was quoted as saying by the Zanu-PF supporting Herald newspaper. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no. They are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one. Mr Mugabe dismissed claims by Morgan Tsvangirai, his MDC rival who wants to unseat him from his 33-year grip on power, that he would seek to win another five-year term by rigging the elections. "We are now mature people," he said. We are not having elections for the first time. We have had elections before, good elections. We never had rigged elections. So, let us observe peace, be united in our country, but that unity must be based on recognising that there are other groups that have their own programmes. Mr Mugabe reportedly told his audience that the estimated one in six Zimbabweans living abroad should come home, adding that his government had a plan to create jobs in infrastructure development and mining. " (Exiles) said sanctions are biting, companies are closing, there're no jobs," he was quoted as saying by newzimbabwe.com. They included nurses; they went to Britain during (Tony) Blair's time, and Blair used that to blame my government; said that these people are running from Mugabe's evil regime. If you said 'Mugabe', they would just say 'come in, come in'. But see now, they are saying these people are too many, they are causing tension in Britain, let them go back. He claimed that those who went abroad were not doing any better than those they left behind, telling exiles: "You have your country; you fought for it, why are you running away?"