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| Malawi: Cedep Condemns Plans for Anti-Gay Protests By Evangelical Association of Malawi |
| 2016-09-21 |
| [All Africa] Gay rights advocacy body, Centre for the Development of People (Cedep), has condemened plans by the Ethics, Peace and Justice Commission [EPJC] a social governance arm of the Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) to hold a countrywide march against gays and abortion calls. Cedep executive director Gift Trapence said the church should be promoting non-discrimination, saying demonstrations will drive the minority group underground.of as a matter of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , public health and public order. "In a country where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons ( LGBT) people are already marginalised and need to hide for fear for arbitrary violence , the planned demonstrations is an appalling move to further curtail the rights of LGBT people, and those who support them," Trapence observed. Her regretted "church-sponsored homophobia." EPJC, an umbrella body of about 122 church denominations and Christian organizations , plan to march for life and family in all 28 districts in the country. |
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