Last month, English actor, author, and comedian Stephen Fry appeared on The Late Late Show for an hour-long interview with host Craig Ferguson. The conversation turned to Fry's outspoken activism on LGBT rights, and he brought up a BBC documentary he's been working on for the last several years, called Out There, which focuses on the experiences of LGBT people in different parts of the world.

Fry noted that the documentary brought him to places as diverse as Russia, Brazil, India, the United States, and Uganda. And then he dropped a bombshell:

I actually got a Ugandan minister to say on camera -- he's the Minister for Ethics and Integrity; it's the only such ministry in the world -- and I said to him, 'Look, even if these... utterly false supports on which you base your homophobia were true, which they aren't, there's so much more to worry about in your country than the odd gay person going to bed with the other gay person. For example, you have almost an epidemic of child rape in this country, which is just frightening.' And he said, 'Ah, but it is the right kind of child rape.'

Ferguson and the audience were understandably stunned. Fry continued:

I said 'That was on camera. Do you know that that was on camera?' He said yes. I said, 'Can you just explain what you mean? He said, 'Well, it is men raping girls, which is natural.'

Watch, after the jump.