Malawi gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison

Von Smallhausen said:
You do sound 17 I have to say.

I have in no way been brainwashed by the media as you suggest.

I have been there as a younger person with regards to racist and homophobic comments that I have made which tended to be as a crowd follower.

Now I am 35, have life experience and have worked and socialised with gay people and concluded some years ago that it has no detrimental effect on my life and that these ' not normal ' people are in fact quite normal and decent folk who mostly want to live their life the way they choose to live it with the minimum of spotlight.

I have my opinions based on real life experience but I confidently surmise that yours are not. Who is truly brainwashed here ?
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*claps*

Couldn't have said it better myself, I too used to hold the opinion that gays were unnatural, a bit of life experience has taught me how short sighted I was.
 
The biggest generalisation since human beings began to think, "We ALL need to have children."

Wake up, we need to stop the ***** of the world from popping out 'little miracles' every year, not encourage them.
 
I don't think that many people in this thread even know the history of the legalities of homosexual acts in the UK let alone comment on another country. It wasn't until 1967 that Sodomy laws were repealed, later for Scotland and even later for outlying states, the last was the Isle of Mann in 1992.

In the US half of the country had sodomy laws until 2003, how is it barbaric in Malawi now and yet it would not have been barbaric in the US in 2003.

If someone was caught having sex in the UK with a 13 year old, they would be prosecuted and probably receive gaol time, is this barbaric? In Spain it would be a perfectly legal act, should we call ourselves barbaric because others have a different take on a moral issue?
 
coltpython3 said:
tbh i think we need this in england. best decision ever made by a judge.

no offense to u guys but homosexuality is just wrong... its unnatural...

i mean if your gay ...just keep ure mouth shut and do it in private... not all this gay and proud bull****.

jeez wat is the world coming to?
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Given your comment, your final sentence sums it up perfectly!

Idiot!

ps: I can only assume your grammar is an indication of intelligence?
 
Ring Peace said:
In the US half of the country had sodomy laws until 2003, how is it barbaric in Malawi now and yet it would not have been barbaric in the US in 2003.
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It would have been barbaric in the US in 2003, just the same as it was barbaric in the UK in the 50s. It is our maturity as a civilization that allows us to look back and see how we were wrong to do the things we did. Learning from how we made those mistakes is how we can avoid making more in the future, rather than using them as an excuse.
Ring Peace said:
If someone was caught having sex in the UK with a 13 year old, they would be prosecuted and probably receive gaol time, is this barbaric? In Spain it would be a perfectly legal act, should we call ourselves barbaric because others have a different take on a moral issue?
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As I mentioned earlier, the age of consent is a different issue - it raises questions of maturity and the risk of abuse, but it is quite different to openly persecuting consenting adults of sound mind that are causing no harm to anyone.
 
Swordfish said:
UK gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell pointed out that the laws under which the pair were convicted were introduced during British colonial rule.
"These laws are a foreign imposition. They are not African," he said.
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oh my and here we are again telling others they are wrong and how they should live their lives :p
 
What annoys me are the men who are totally homophobic yet will happily watch lesbian porn.

hypocrites the lot of them.
 
coltpython3 said:
tbh i think we need this in england. best decision ever made by a judge.

no offense to u guys but homosexuality is just wrong... its unnatural...

i mean if your gay ...just keep ure mouth shut and do it in private... not all this gay and proud bull****.

jeez wat is the world coming to?
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time for you to come out of the closet
 
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