Box Turtle Bulletin
News and commentary about the anti-gay lobby“Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife…”
News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 8th, 2010
Update: I’ve found the original article from The Nation, and have revised this report accordingly.
It looks like anti-gay forces in Malawi may have gotten their way after all, if these reports are to be believed:
In a dramatic twist to the tale of Malawi’s convicted but pardoned gay lovebirds, the man, Steven Monjeza, has dumped his homosexual ‘wife’ Tiwonge Chimbalanga to marry a Blantyre-based woman. Twenty-four-year old Dorothy Gulo on Monday confessed her love for Monjeza whom she described as “a real man capable of doing to women what other men ably do in bed.” She was explicit about the issue and said she had nothing to hide.
Malawi’s government was under tremendous international criticism over the pair’s conviction of “gross indecency” following their December engagement ceremony, including pressure from donor nations which make up 40% of the nation’s gross domestic income. Undoubtedly, the couple themselves have also been subjected to unbearable pressure in turn from the virulently anti-gay government. When Steven and Tiwonge were pardoned of their sentence of fourteen years at hard labor, senior government officials warned that they would be re-arrested if they remained together. President Bingu wa Mutharika used particularly venomous language in denouncing the two following his return on June 2 from a two-day Franco-African summit:
Said Mutharika: “Chimbalanga and Monjeza were being used. I was not about to let this country be led astray or suffer because of two misguided and confused men. That is why I forgave them. To err is human, to forgive is divine.
“It, nonetheless, does not mean I condone their actions. Their actions were disgusting, demeaning and a disregard of our culture, religion and laws. Ndawatchera tsopano madona kuti ndione kuti anenano chani [I am now waiting to hear what else donors will demand from me].”
The President could not hide his disgust for Chimbalanga, dubbed Aunt Tiwo, when he described his movement, body language and exaggerated facial expressions as “stupid, demonic and useless”.
Monjeza acknowledged the pressure to The Nation:
Said Monjeza: “We were pardoned but I know the law can bounce back on us if we are not careful. Although I claimed that I still love Tiwo, I did not mean it. I have never had sex with him as was revealed in court. That is why the medical examination failed to establish any anal penetration. I was coerced into the whole thing.”
According to The Nation, Monjeza now claims that he was never gay, and that his recent press conference came about because he was kidnapped by three unidentified men and forced to attend a “drinking orgy.”
Latest Posts
Featured Reports
In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out”
Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With “No Exceptions”
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
At last, the truth can now be told.
Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
And don‘t miss our companion report, How To Write An Anti-Gay Tract In Fifteen Easy Steps.
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.
The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.
“Google” is a trademark of Google Inc.
© Box Turtle Bulletin. All Rights Reserved.
Posts 
Posts via daily email:
Ben in Oakland
June 8th, 2010
you do what you have to do to survive. Sad.
Paul in Canada
June 8th, 2010
Evil, disgusting, sad and pathetic. This is what happens when government invades the privacy of individuals. What a charade!
NOM and their ilk will have a field day with this one…….
DN
June 8th, 2010
If I had a gun to my head, I don’t know what I’d say or who I’d denounce – even the love of my life. All I can do is hope it never comes to that.
Clement
June 8th, 2010
“Monjeza now claims that he was never gay, and that his recent press conference came about because he was kidnapped by three unidentified men and forced to attend a “drinking orgy.—
Who are these three men? They have to be brought to book.
Urmensch
June 8th, 2010
This is rather like that man in the Maldives who declared he was an atheist. Suddenly after they bayed for his execution for apostasy he suddenly became a Muslim again.
paul j stein
June 8th, 2010
Well he is a celebrity in his home country, make the most of it.
Regan DuCasse
June 8th, 2010
Why would this woman have to assert anything about their sex life?
She didn’t say she loved him, he didn’t say he loved her. And but for the spectre of being jailed again for continuing as a gay couple, such an issue is so obvious it’s pathetic.
If only anti gay straight people could get a look at themselves from the point of view of gay people, or straight people who can think better than they can.
There doesn’t seem to be a limit the hypocrisy or just plain old incomprehensibility to what they want and expect.
Here is a group of people convinced that gay people have other sexual fetishes, diseases or dysfunction beyond just having and attraction and sex with the same sex.
Yet are convinced that a gay person having sex with the opposite sex can cure all of that.
I wonder if, really…these people were asked what it would take for them to ‘turn’ gay and WANT to have sex with the same sex, what THEIR answer would be?
Threat of death? Threat of institutionalization for life? NEVER being touched, loved, part of the family or having one?
What’s worth sacrificing to change orientation if it’s so good for a gay person?
ANY person?
If being gay is a choice, then where is the choice to ACTUALLY stay that way and be that way, without all the coercion and threat?
The only way someone would or could convince me they knew what they were talking about, is if they were as willing to take what they are willing to inflict to make it happen.
Or…not inflict anything at all and see if there is a difference.
Anti gay people are so full of shit.
occono
June 8th, 2010
Boy, he sure fell for this woman fast, huh?….
Seriously, what happened to get her willing into it? That makes me curious.
Beyond that, sad.
Burr
June 8th, 2010
Maybe she’s a lesbian?
Lynn David
June 8th, 2010
Well, that’s the African way. Marry a woman, give her a child, and havee your gay affairs on the side. Come to think of it, that happens enough in America also.
ModernHeretic
June 9th, 2010
“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
occono
June 9th, 2010
I thought that Burr, but do they keep them locked up somewhere in reserve for situations like this?……
…Sorry.
Leave A Comment