Malawi launches operation against high-profile gay and lesbian people

[Newsjock]

Source: The Guardian

Police in Malawi have launched an operation to hunt down and arrest high-profile gays and lesbians in the southern African state.

Fears of an anti-gay backlash across Africa are intensifying after the prosecution of the first gay couple to seek marriage in Malawi, and thousands of Ugandans demonstrated this week in support of a bill proposing the death penalty for some offences involving homosexual acts. Last week five men were arrested at an alleged gay wedding in Kenya.

... Campaigners in Malawi say homophobic legislation is driving gays and lesbians underground, making them hard to reach with information that could protect them from Aids."In Malawi it's a complete witch-hunt that denies the people the right to self-determination," said Phumi Mtetwa, executive director of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, based in South Africa. "We are deeply concerned about this spate of homophobia across the continent."

Mtetwa said the recent series of incidents was no accident but rather the work of US evangelical Christian groups. "It's very well calculated. It's exploding at the moment but it's been happening for a year and a half. We have proof of American evangelical churches driving the religious fundamentalism in Uganda."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/16/malawi-operation-against-gays-lesbians

[Jamastiene]

1. It really is like a worldwide attack on gay people.

It just pisses me off more and more. :grr:

[naaman fletcher]

3. It's orchestrated from here..

Our missionaries go over there and stir up the pot.

[Hannah Bell]

5. i agree. tanzania separates uganda & malawi. warren's evil minions are in tanzania

http://highlandsfellowship.com/hfc2009/?page_id=691

and apparently some in tanzania too

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:JjaeBECZnuIJ:www.hivandthechurch.com/en-US/RecommendedReading/The_Gogo_Project.htm+%22saddleback+church%22+malawi&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://www.gogograndmothers.net/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=46939&columnid=4042

[msongs]

2. sorry, DADT can't be dumped in the USA without at least anther year of study by Obama and Co, nt

[WVRICK13]

4. Courtesy of Religions Everywhere

I refuse to believe in any god who doesn't believe in me.