A rod for our own backs...

In case you haven't opened a newspaper today, have yet to see Facebook or are too busy worrying whether your birthday flight to New York is gonna be cancelled due to strike action (alright, that one was me), you may not have heard of the two Malawian men being imprisoned for 14 years each after announcing their engagement.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/gay-couple-sentenced-to-14-years-in-malawi-1977949.html

I'm deeply saddened by the plight of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjez, simply declaring their relationship depicts a brave stance against their government's position on Gay rights and inequality, yet I wonder why people are calling for boycotts of Malawi all of a sudden, when the list of countries imposing the death sentence for homosexuality seems to have drawn little attention...

Sorry, this image is a crap copy - go here the original, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory plus a whole heap of info regarding countries that kill and imprison on the grounds of imorality)

Gay people and their supporters need to get wise.

If it's not our governments funding these countries' agendas through aid and trade, it's the gay community funding the hate campaigns of the Mormons by happily buying and dancing to the music of bands like the Killers.

www.mormonwiki.com/brandon_flowers

(this is a gem, the Mormons doing a lovely spin on their favourite rock son!)

Mr. Flowers may be a 'liberal Mormon', but anyone calling themselves a Mormon, liberal or otherwise, tithes to the Mormon church: Ergo you bought an album? You helped pay for Prop. 8. coz we all know the Mormons funded 77% of the campaign to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry. http://www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=413381338

So yeah, I'm happy to boycott, but are we gonna inform ourselves and organise, or just band wagon jump and take collective pot shots whenever the media decides to trumpet how lucky we gays have it here in the 'liberal' west?