Malawi Gay Marriage Trial Suspended As Defendant Takes Violently Ill, With Two Wars Waged American Military Argues It Cannot Afford To Repeal Gay Ban, D. C. Court Rejects Gay Marriage Referendum Request, Britain Parliament Promises First Gay Marriage To Take Place In Spring,

The trail of two Malawi men arrested and held in custody since marrying in a traditional ceremony has been adjourned after 20 year old Tiwonge Chimbalanga, one of the defendants, collapsed in court and was subjected to homophobic abuse from the gallery. He and 26 year old Steve Monjeza, are accused of unnatural act between men and gross public indecency, and Thursday Tiwonge fell violently ill in court, and was forced to endure yet another public indignation.

The Associated Press reports that has learned attorneys for American Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, are advising to delay an internal Pentagon effort to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military, thereby delaying a decision on the policy by Congress to at least 2012. A memo obtained by the AP, reads “Now is not the time. The importance of winning the wars we are in, along with the stress on the force, our body of knowledge and the number of unknowns, demand that we act with deliberation.”

District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith N. Macaluso ruled Thursday that opponents of gay marriage do not have the right to hold a public referendum to consider whether or not those marriages should be legal in the District. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has ruled twice that a referendum on same sex marriage would violate a city law that prohibits a public vote on matters covered by the Human Rights Act, an act that prevents discrimination against gay men and women, as well as other minority groups.

John Bercow, the Speaker of the British House of Commons, said Wednesday that the Parliament will hold its first gay marriage, on Parliamentary estate before May, 2010.