{"id":3364,"date":"2010-02-12T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T05:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2010-02-12T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T05:12:32","slug":"repost-places-not-to-be-gay-malawi-edition-wronging-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/12\/repost-places-not-to-be-gay-malawi-edition-wronging-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition ::wronging rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition<br \/>\nLast week, police in Malawi arrested 21 year old Peter Sawali for putting up posters reading &#8220;Gay rights are human rights&#8221; in response to the public indecency trial of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga. (The two men face up to 14 years in prison for attempting to marry.)<br \/>\nApparently, the government believed Monjeza and Chimbalanga were Malawi&amp;apos;s only gays, so imagine their surprise to be confronted with a well-organized gay rights campaign secretly producing and distributing &#8220;expertly and expensively printed&#8221; posters and leaflets. The authorities have announced that whoever is doing it had better reveal themselves so that they can be arrested too.<br \/>\nI&amp;apos;m thinking given how poorly Malawi has treated the two gays they&amp;apos;ve got, it&amp;apos;s not likely anyone&amp;apos;s going to respond to the request &#8220;if there are others, let them come out in the open.&#8221; When will governments learn that gays are a privilege, not a right?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongingrights.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/places-not-to-be-gay-malawi-edition.html\">wronging rights: Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition Last week, police in Malawi arrested 21 year old Peter Sawali for putting up posters reading &#8220;Gay rights are human rights&#8221; in response to the public indecency trial of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga. (The two men face up to 14 years in prison for attempting to marry.) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/12\/repost-places-not-to-be-gay-malawi-edition-wronging-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition ::wronging rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}