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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0218-manny-pacquiao-gay-instagram-bible-verse-INSTAGRAM-01\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2016/02/18/0218-manny-pacquiao-gay-instagram-bible-verse-instagram-4.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/person/manny-pacquiao/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manny Pacquiao&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is doubling down on his anti-gay stance -- posting a bible verse that condones putting gays to death ... hours after he was fired by Nike.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The Filipino news agency &lt;a href=\"http://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/02/17/16/pacquiao-posts-deletes-bible-verse-on-gays-put-to-death\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABS-CBN&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;captured an Instagram Manny put up early Thursday morning quoting Leviticus 20.13:&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;\"If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death, their blood will be on their own heads.\"&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The post has since been deleted.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;TMZ Sports spoke with Manny's longtime promoter &lt;strong&gt;Bob Arum&lt;/strong&gt; who says although &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/17/manny-pacquiao-manager-applauds-nike-they-did-the-right-thing/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he finds&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Manny's views abhorrent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, he understands them because they're rooted in religious belief. Manny is a born again Christian.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Earlier this week, Manny said gays are &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/16/manny-pacquiao-gays-are-worse-than-animals/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\"worse than animals\"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -- though he later apologized, while noting that he is still very much anti-gay marriage.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;By the way, Manny's getting SUPPORT in the Philippines -- opposition senator Juan Ponce Enrile issued this message for the LGBT community: \"It's better for them to go to planet Mars.\"&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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