Malawi: Constitutional Court Rejects Same-Sex Marriage

On Friday, June 28, 2024, Malawi’s Constitutional Court dismissed two petitioners who requested the legalization of same-sex relationships. Arrested in 2021, a man from the Netherlands and a Malawian transgender person [biological male] were charged with several counts of sins against nature. They sought to evade the law by having it declared unconstitutional.
The website VOA (Voice of America) reports that the two defendants, who were arrested three years ago under the homosexuality law in effect in Malawi, have petitioned the court by claiming that the Malawi’s laws violated their fundamental rights, and especially the right to privacy and dignity.
This law makes homosexuality an offense “punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.”
The three judges rejected the defendants’ arguments, stating that “the applicants failed to bring evidence of how the provisions in the country's laws discriminated against homosexuals.”
The Constitutional Court also stated “that the applicants were free to ask parliament to amend the country’s homosexuality laws if they were not satisfied with its judgment.”
A Society Largely in Favor of the Law
A year ago, when this case first came before the Court, the Episcopal Conference of Malawi had organized a nationwide demonstration to make its position known. It had also circulated a letter which stressed the importance of the family for society and specified that “family” should be understood as a husband, his wife, and their children.
It also recalled that sexual acts are only permitted between married people (a man and a woman) and that each act must express love and openness to procreation. They also accused foreign entities of wanting to impose their perversion on Africa, taking abject advantage of the country’s poverty.
Catholics, who represent 45% of the population, were joined by Protestants, who represent 33%, as well as Muslims (10%).
Fr. Alpheus Zikomankhani, who sent a statement to ACI Africa, explains that the defenders of the family were satisfied with the judgment and added: “We thank God for the victory.”
Obviously, in the “Western” world, minds formed by legislation that has completely inverted the natural law do not understand such a decision. They see it as an attack on the privacy and on the will of the individual, and they consider the Malawian laws intolerable discrimination.
While it is this Western legislation that falls into the worst of perversities: that of rejection of natural and divine law, enclosing itself in a Promethean “freedom” that believes itself to be above all else. But the evil is now so deep that we cannot expect these minds to understand it. The race to the abyss is therefore not over.
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(Sources : ACI Afrique/VOA Afrique – FSSPX.Actualités)
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