Hillary Clinton's charity accepted a substantial donation from an anti-gay African church which has likened homosexuals to the Devil, Daily Mail Online can reveal.
The 2016 Presidential candidate took money for her sprawling health nonprofit from the Cameroon Baptist Convention whose official policy is that being gay 'contradicts God's purpose for human sexuality'.
The devout Christian organization has in the past compared being gay to committing incest and human trafficking. Its leaders have also railed against US attempts to promote gay rights in Cameroon.
Despite this, the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board gave between $1million and $10million between 2010 and this year, according to the latest list of donors from the Clinton Health Access Initiative.
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Awkward: Public supporter of same-sex marriage Hillary Clinton's health charity took up to $10 million from a church which says homosexuality should be equated with incest and bestiality
High-profile: The Rev Godwil Ncham, general secretary of the Cameroon Baptist Convention, kneels to receive flowers during a meeting at a church in the country. His church says of homosexuality that it 'contradicts God's purpose for sexuality'.
At odds: Sir Elton John, who married his partner David Furnish as soon as it was possible in the UK last year. His AIDS foundation donated to the Clinton charity. He has campaigned on AIDS, meeting Hillary Clinton's White House rival Lindsey Graham in May in Washington D.C. at a Senate sub-committee hearing on the disease
The disclosure will be awkward for Mrs Clinton who has publicly stated that she supports gay marriage.
Some of her wealthy and influential celebrity supporters are gay including Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John, while many others Democrats are strong advocates for gay rights.
And during her election campaign Mrs Clinton will be heavily relying on them to raise her estimated $1 billion war chest.
The latest roster of donors for CHAI lists dozens of individuals and companies who have given up to $25million and over during the last five years.
But the CBC do not appear as in line with the Clintons' views in the same way as the likes of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who are some of the biggest givers.
Although they are broadly in line with some other denominations in their teachings on sexuality, including among others the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention, the CBC are certainly very much at odds with the founder of the Elton John AIDS Fund, which is also a donor.
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