Views of the church are shared by some US denominations but seem directly at odds with those of the Clintons and other donors

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.

The CBC's views on gay people are laid out in a letter from December 2013 signed by both the organization's president Joseph Chebonkeng and the general secretary Godwill Ncham.

It reads: 'As a church we uphold the belief that marriage is celebrated between a man and a woman.

'We uphold the principle that sexual intercourse outside of marriage, sexual promiscuity, adultery, homosexuality, sexual exploitation, same sex marriage, incest and sexual perversion contradict God's purpose for sexuality.'

In an interview with a Cameroon news website Rev Chebonkeng goes further when asked to comment on the question: 'Spiritually speaking, where do you think the idea of homosexuality is coming from?'

He says: 'It is coming from the Devil because it is not prescribed by the Bible which means that if you practice unorthodox things, these are things that are coming from the dark world and they know what they do with such things, because, it is unthinkable.

'Only recently, Cameroonians began to know that a man can get married to a man. And many people confront me to ask what it means for a man to get married to a man?

'You begin to imagine some devilish type of a thing. I think that Cameroonians should be resolute on issues of homosexuality and these are not practices that are common in our societies.

Same standards?: Hillary Clinton's launch video featured a gay couple who are getting married as it set out how she was running for the White House. But her charity took money from a church opposed to homosexuality

Advocates: Ellen DeGeneres has been a public advocate for both same-sex marriage and for Hillary Clinton, endorsing her campaign almost as soon as it had launched. She married Portia de Rossi in August 2008

Clear views: The Cameroon Baptist Convention issued its position on sexuality in December 2013, saying that it would not support same-sex marriage, and that its principles

Contradictory: Hillary Clinton's endorsement of same-sex marriage would not win her any favors from the Cameroon Baptist Convention. Its president attacked 'the West' for pegging aid to changing anti-gay laws

'These are imported ideas, imported ways of life which are alien to our society. It is time Africans spoke out on this ill.'

He also rails against America and accuses it of trying to 'peg' aid to reforms in Cameroon about gay rights.

He writes: 'What the West is playing on is their assistance which they give African countries and they think that they will peg the conditions for having that aid on the practice of homosexuality or on the legalization of homosexuality.

'I think it is time for Africans and African governments to make a clear cut stand on that at the AU [African Union] summit so that the West should know

'There are other partners that can give us assistance without necessarily pegging that assistance to homosexuality and so they are not the only people that assist us'.

According to the Cameroon Baptist Convention's website it dates back to 1841 and was founded by two Jamaican Missionaries, John Clarks and George Prince.

Work: The CBC Health Board is one of the biggest providers of health services in Cameroon.

Evidence: The official list of donors published by the Clinton Health Foundation shows how the CBC Health Board is in the same category as Elton John's foundation - and the Clinton Foundation itself

It claims to have 1,028 churches with a membership of about 105,000 members and a number of departments including the 'Evangelism and Missionary' wing and the 'Christian Education Department'.

The health wing runs five hospitals and 74 health centers in Cameroon and drug production and distribution center.

Others who have donated money to the organisation include Microsoft, who are featured in its latest newsletter having

The disclosure is the latest of many donor issues confronting Mrs Clinton.

She has already been forced to admit that the CHAI never submitted details on any foreign donations to State Department lawyers for review whilst she was Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013.

'Clinton Cash', a book about donations to her nonprofit and business empire as also raised questions over a diamond deal that went through whilst she was in office.