Outrage as gay pair get 14 years' hard labour

Every major campaign against AIDS in Africa has been based on the premise that heterosexual sex accounts for 90 percent of transmission in adults. Yet safe-sex efforts have not stopped the spread of the epidemic, which now affects 30 million people. Economic anthropologist David Gisselquist therefore suspected that HIV might be spreading primarily by another route. After analyzing 20 years of epidemiological studies, he and his colleagues concluded that unsafe injections, blood transfusions, and other medical procedures may account for most AIDS transmission in African adults. Their analysis indicates that no more than 35 percent of HIV in that population is spread through sex.

We want Malawi and you as well to grow up and enter the 21st century and stop being bigoted and wrongheaded about homosexuality. Both ostracism and violence against gays and lesbians and transexuals is dead on wrong. So is supporting and openly condoning and defending the backwards third world practices of scientific and social practices of countries like Malawi.

History of US law
In June 2003, the US Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision struck down the Texas same-sex sodomy law, ruling that this private sexual conduct is protected by the liberty rights implicit in the due process clause of the United States Constitution. (See Lawrence v. Texas.) This decision invalidated all state sodomy laws insofar as they applied to noncommercial conduct in private between consenting adults, and overruled an earlier ruling from 1986 in which Georgia's sodomy law had been upheld. (Bowers v. Hardwick.)
Before that 2003 ruling, 27 states, the District of Columbia and 4 territories had repealed their sodomy laws by legislative action, 9 states had had them overturned or invalidated by state court action, 4 states still had same-sex laws, and 10 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. military had laws applying to all regardless of gender.

Prior to 1962, sodomy was a felony in every state, punishable by a lengthy term of imprisonment. Over the years, many of the states that did not repeal their sodomy laws had enacted legislation reducing the penalty. Immediately prior to the Lawrence decision in 2003, the penalty for violating a sodomy law varied very widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction among those states retaining their sodomy laws. The most harsh penalties were in the state of Idaho, where sodomy could theoretically earn a life sentence. Michigan followed, with a maximum penalty of 15 years' imprisonment.

In most US states the laws were no longer enforced, or were very selectively enforced. The continued presence of these rarely enforced laws on the statute books, however, was often cited as justification for discrimination against gay men and lesbians.

http://www.fact-index.com/s/so/sodomy_laws_in_the_united_states.html

You might as well not reply to my posts as from now on I'm placing you on my ignore list.

Absolutely ******* unbelievable. Hypocrisy much? Take out Malawi, stick in the USA and you don't have much difference.

.....We recommend enlarging the list of risk factors to include evaluation ... of other sexual variables, especially anal intercourse.

You don't care about risk to others. If you did you'd bother to educate yourself, like look up the CDC website.
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HIV transmission patterns among Black men vary from those of
white men. Although both groups are most likely to have been
infected through sex with other men, white men are much more
likely to have been infected this way.

But at least here in the US, we don't imprison people for being gay. But at least here in the US, we don't imprison people for being gay.

Some people might consider your accusation as libel.

Some people might consider your accusation as libel. I have constantly argued for gay rights and gay marriage....

Learn to read what's written and stop trying to allegedly read between the damned lines.

So it's screw the Africans, just worry about your own? Terrific.

You just lost, buster, did you write that to "jackass" or not?

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Some people might consider your accusation as libel. I have constantly argued for gay rights and gay marriage....

Learn to read what's written and stop trying to allegedly read between the damned lines.

So it's screw the Africans, just worry about your own? Terrific.

Where in my argument do I explicitly exclaim screw the Africans, just worry about your own?

Vermont 2007 AIDS cases per 100,000 population: 1 (one)
Malawi 2007 AIDS cases per 100,000 population: 12,000 (twelve thousand)

...so finally these people decide enough is enough and take matters into their own hands.

That's purely your interpretation of the article posted. .....Rather, it was a vindictive, bigot of a judge ....Outrageous.

"....promoting intolerance and creating a climate of fear will only sabotage efforts to ensure access to HIV prevention and treatment by driving men underground,”