Gay movement formed in Malawi
Gay men kissing: Malawi gays plan outreach activites
Gays and lesbians in Malawi have formed the Malawi Gay Rights Movement (Magrim) to sensitise and lure Malawians into homosexuality.
Magrim interim chairperson, Mc Leod (who has asked to have his surname kept from the press) said Malawi has had an active gay population and that they have been meeting for a long time.
"Only that now we have decided to come forth because we want our views heard; we are Malawian citizens who should be protected like anyone else,” he said.
Homosexuality is illegal in the laws of Malawi and punishable by imprisonment with hard labour.
But the movement said it will lobby amendment of the Panel Code which criminalizes homosexuality saying the constitution of the republic which has bill of rights does not condone discrimination.
"Doesn't our Republican constitution say everyone is equal, and that nobody is more equal than others?" wondered Mc Leod.
Calls by the Malawi Human Rights Resource centre in 2005 for gay rights were met with violent opposition.
Mc Leod stated that this situation was "pathetic": "These people don't understand, but we will fight on," he continued.
"In fact, Malawi has an active population of 89, 000 homosexuals, and this we say because we meet, and have sexual intercourse,” disclosed Mc Leod.
Sources say amongst people meeting in the homosexual community are prominent business persons, politicians, a well known artist, journalists and clerics.
"We have a place in Blantyre City Centre where we have been meeting for the past six years," disclosed Gay leader.
He added that it also had plans to begin outreach activities, starting this November, to sensitise people that homosexuality is natural, and no cause for shame.
The launch for the association, which reportedly has 3,890 members, is planned for 13th September 2008.
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Cheers guys for coming in the opening push for your rights than just doing in the corners.
KUMANYENGANA KU THAKO ANTHU A MUNA OKHA OKHA. NASTY, GO TO HELL.
NO MATTER HOW YOU CAN WASH YOUR ***,IT CAN NEVER BEEN CLEAN TO PUT A DICK IN ONLY PUSSY IS OKEY WITH ME.
Malawi is in africa not in europe or asia or america, pliz dont spoil our nation with your borrowed culture, thats total madness
"mupite kunja koko ngati mukufuna"
Simply go to hell and perish with your "matanyula khalidwe".And Iam sure these are the once rejected people in the society(ex-convicts)Now you are out but you cant repent.* hope you deserve life custodial sentence!!!!!!!!!!!
How many rights have brought irresponsibility,disorders,catastrophies in our society??!! TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY, HONOUR AND POWER.
What is in you that is not there in the other human being that cleves for your fellow man Mc Leod. You have a problem and you just need to be helped. Your sexual life is abnormal.
* would lobby all Mps to reject this bill in no an uncertain terms. To hell with your abnormal lust!!!!!!
These people surely have a mental deficit and having studied some elements of Psychiatry, * believe that society has conformed to this madness.
if you read any book of psychology you will learn that man is driven by a desire for rewards and this is what we term Motivation.
look around folks, whats in a fellow man or woman to move you into sleeping or doing it with each other.My own humble understanding is that the only true reason we do this, from a creation and biological point of view is for reproduction.
Any deviation from the natural and the known reasons is a sign of some mental turbulence and im fearing for these fellow countrymen who have succumbed to a hollow call of western madness.
iwould be happy if the police would tie these people up and send them to ZA mental hospital for a mental State examination.Otherwise, we could be in for a rude awekening upon seeing them stripping in public .
homosexuality is a Ministry of Health problem and should be eradicated as the other diseases we have managed to arrest .
First of all what are the benefits to malawians to have gay people?
There are women around for us so why being so selfish to marry a fellow man.
A question to these gay people: if your parents were gay do you think you would have been around? so why do you want to stop the natural process of human existed by reproducing your own biological children?
please give me two good reasons why you think you are important to the world.
* am a christian and * believe that if Adam was gay all of us would not have been around so what are you talking about?
Once again No No and NO
As far as * see it (and * am entitled to my opinion), although it may be made legal eventually, it is sin and downright unnatural (show me gay goats!).
* personally don'* understand this? This is not natural guys. We will jail all of them. Nosense!!!
Gays! In Malawi! No Way!!!!!!!!!!!!1
So far no comment from frequent posters why? God help us, God help Malawi.
Amalawi kutengeka bwanji?Any foreign strange thing is agood thing to malawians.Mukapita kunja muzikatenga zabwino zokhazo zoipazo muziwasiila.
Mwina zimakuvutani kufusila akazi okongola ndiye you jusat gave up and resorted to homo.
ANYWAY THATS PROBLEM OF BEING EDUCATED WITHOUT ACQUIRING GOOD MORALS
ALLAH KNOWS BEST
Amalawi kutengeka bwanji?Any foreign strange thing is agood thing to malawians.Mukapita kunja muzikatenga zabwino zokhazo zoipazo muziwasiila.
Mwina zimakuvutani kufusila akazi okongola ndiye you jusat gave up and resorted to homo.
ANYWAY THATS PROBLEM OF BEING EDUCATED WITHOUT ACQUIRING GOOD MORALS
ALLAH KNOWS BEST
We say no, and * am one of the people who will strongly protest and if it means going to the street * will. * am sure it was there yes during Lot days in the Biblebut we say NO to this evil. If democracy means majority should win by vote even if there were more a majority and cabinet ministers, some MPs, chief executive and you journalit were involved, the answer is no, this is not our culture, these people are worse than pigs
Toto in Malawi and this is where we need dictatos to rise up and ban this completely, oh yes, kaya wina afuna kaya asafune NO please to legalise and these are the source o matenda ambiri awa.
True it is there in Malawi and it was there in the time of some peole in the Bible and od wiped away Sodom and Gomorah becase of this, we do not want curses osowa mvula etc because of this let it not be there officially.
we will support the MPs and religious leadersto come against it. We are ware some civil society organisation are funded by these gurus and also some belong to this thing same and very much shame indeed
Batty Riders out of our country...
am just happy cause this will be accept maybe in urban area dont even think about rural area.you know if you are one of them dont think GOD,JAH,ALLAH blessings will be showered upon you its only CURSE,CURSE,CURSE,CURSE AND CURSE YOU CURSED.Dont hate me for this but hate yourself for what you are doing,you know the truth.
WHAT WILL BE ILLEGAL WHEN HOMOSEXUALITY IS LEGAL?
August 5, 2008 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
If homosexuality is fully legalized and homosexual activists are given every right they demand, citizens in western nations will be robbed of many liberties they have heretofore enjoyed. This is not a guess; it is a judgment based on current facts. The right to free speech and the right to the free exercise of religion, in particular, will be effectively destroyed.
WHEN HOMOSEXUALITY IS FULLY LEGAL, YOU WON’* BE ABLE TO SAY ANYTHING THAT MIGHT APPEAR BIASED AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY.
In 1997 Jo Ann Knight was fired by the Connecticut Department of Public Health after she counseled a homosexual couple from the Bible about salvation and about the necessity of repenting of sin.Knight’* job was to supervise the provision of medical services by Medicare agencies to home health care patients, and in that capacity she interviewed patients. The homosexuals filed a complaint with the Commission on Human Rights. A district court upheld Knight’* dismissal, claiming that her religious speech caused her clients distress and interfered with the performance of her duties.
In 2000 Evelyn Bodett was fired by CoxCom Cable for expressing her biblical views against homosexuality to a lesbian subordinate. They claimed that she was thereby “coercing and harassing” the lesbian contrary to company policy. The lesbian, Kelley Carson, had sought Bodett’* advice in regard to a recent breakup with her homosexual partner, and Bodett gave her biblical counsel that homosexuality is a sin. Carson complained about the matter to a supervisor.The 9th U.*. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bodett’* religious discrimination suit.
In 2001 Richard Peterson was fired by Hewlett-Packard after he posted Bible verses condemning homosexuality. Peterson, who had worked for HP for nearly 21 years, posted the verses in response to the company’* diversity policy that requires acceptance of homosexuality. The Ninth U.*. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2004 that Peterson was not discriminated against because of his religious beliefs. Commenting on the case, Stephen Crampton, chief counsel for the American Family Association’* Center for Law & Policy, said: “The new rule in the workplace seems to be: The Bible is out; diversity is in” (“Using Caesar’* Sword,” AgapePress,
March 19, 2004).
In 2002 homosexual activists tried to get the Ferndale City Council in Michigan to fire volunteer police chaplain *** Hansen for stating his biblical views against homosexuality. The organization Soulforce claimed that Hansen, the pastor of a Baptist church, was committing “spiritual violence” against homosexuals by saying that it is sinful. The divided city council opted not to dismiss the pastor, but it did issue a resolution condemning him for his “anti-gay” views.
In 2002 Rolf Szabo was fired by Eastman Kodak for objecting to the company’* diversity policy. The program, which is called “Winning & Inclusive Culture,” allows no “negative comments” toward “gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered” employees. After the company sent out an email memo in October 2002 announcing “coming out” day for homosexual employees and demanding that they be given full acceptance and encouragement, Rolf replied to the same mailing list (1,000 employees), “Please do not send this type of information to me anymore, as * find it disgusting and offensive. Thank you.” For refusing to apologize and submit to diversity sensitivity training, Rolf was fired. He had worked for Kodak for 23 years.
In 2002 in Saskatchewan, Canada, the StarPhoenix newspaper of Saskatoon and Hugh Owens were ordered to pay $1,500 to three homosexual activists for publishing an ad in the newspaper in 1997 quoting Bible verses regarding homosexuality.The advertisement displayed references to four Bible passages (Romans 1, Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10) on the left side. An equal sign (=) was situated in the middle, with a symbol on the right side comprised of two males holding hands with the universal sign of a red circle with a diagonal bar superimposed over the top. Owens bought the ad and the StarPhoenix merely printed it. The Human Rights Commission’* ruling was appealed to the courts. In February 2003 the Court of Queen’* Bench in Saskatchewan refused to overturn it, with Justice J. Barclay saying the advertisement was an incitement to hatred. But in
April 2006 the ruling was overturned by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals(“Court Reverses Ruling,” WorldNetDaily,April 14, 2006).
In 2003 the city of Oakland, California, labeled a flier posted on a workplace bulletin board as “homophobic” because it used the terms “the natural family and marriage” (Suit to Decide Workplace ‘Hate Speech,’” The Washington Times, June 11, 2007).The flier, which was posted by Regina Rederford and Robin Christy, was removed after a lesbian complained to the city attorney’* office that it made her feel “excluded.” When Rederford and Christy sued the city, claiming their First Amendment rights had been violated, they lost at the local, state, and federal level, with the 9th U.*. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against them. The case has been appealed to the Supreme Court.
In June 2004 Pentecostal Pastor Ake Green in Sweden became the first pastor in the European Union to be charged under hate crimes. He was convicted for denouncing homosexuality as “abnormal,” “something sick,” and “a deep cancerous tumor in the body of society” and sentenced to one month in jail. The conviction was overturned by an appeals court.
In October 2004 eleven Christians with the Repent America organization who were protesting a homosexual “Outfest” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were arrested and charged with a laundry list of crimes. In February 2005 four members of the group stood trial on three felony and five misdemeanor counts and the judge dismissed all charges. Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Dembe said, “We cannot stifle speech because we don’* want to hear it, or we don’* want to hear it now” (“Judge Drops Charges,” Baptist Press, Feb. 18, 2005). (Homosexual activists claim that the group was disrupting their program and refusing police requests to move, but the judge ruled that they did nothing illegal.) Repent America uses placards such as “God Abhors You.”
In 2005 in Alberta Fred Henry,Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary,Alberta, Canada, was subject to two complaints before the Alberta Human Rights Commission after publishing a pastoral letter defending the traditional definition of marriage earlier that same year. (“Canada’* Human Rights Beef with Catholics,” Zenit, Feb. 5, 2008). Bishop Henry told Zenit: “The social climate right now is that we’re into a new form of censorship and thought control, and the commissions are being used as thought police.”
In January 2006, Catholic city councilman John Decicco of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, was fined $1,000 and required to apologize for saying that homosexuality is “not normal or natural” (LifeSiteNews, Jan. 19, 2007). In his remarks, which were made in a city council meeting, DeCicco was expressing the official doctrine of his church. The fine goes to two homosexual activists who brought the complaint. DeCicco was also forced to issue a public statement that his comments were “inappropriate and hurtful
to some.” DeCiccco told LifeSiteNews, “*’m not against lesbian and gay people, but * don’* agree that * should have to endorse it.”
After he preached against homosexuality at a fellow officer’* funeral in September 2006, Sgt. Eric Holyfield of the Los Angeles Police Department was removed from his position in community relations, moved back to patrol duty, and passed over for promotions and pay raises (“Police Office Sues LAPD and Los Angeles, Alleging Religious Discrimination,” Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2008). In his euology, Holyfield, who is also a pastor, quoted Bible verses proving that homosexuality is an abomination before God and said that one must repent or be condemned to hell. Holyfield’* commanding officer, Charlie Beck, who was present at the funeral, filed a formal complaint against him.
In February 2007 complaints were brought before the Human Rights Commission in Canada targeting Catholic Insight magazine and priest Alphonse De Valk, a well-known pro-life activist, for quoting from the Bible and church documents to refute “same-*** marriage.” The complaint was brought by homosexual activist Rob Wells, a member of the Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Pride Center of Edmonton. He accuses the