Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

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Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:42pm

This is horrifying beyond words.
Iran reportedly executes two teens for having gay sex

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:47pm

Oy. I cannot read this article from work...but I can guess.

This is why theocracies should not exist. OR despotisms. Or whatever. Of course, we are tumbling headlong into a country with the same kind of restrictions so I guess I hardly find it surprising.

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:49pm

"According to Iranian human-rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the ayatollahs seized power in 1979"

This is simply horrifying.

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#4

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:50pm

I'm stunned. There is also no mention of this anywhere on the CNN website.

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#5

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:52pm

Ugh. Just...blarg.

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#6

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:54pm

There is a link to the picture of them being hanged on Datalounge.

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:00pm

Disgusted: Yes. Shocked: No. I was speaking to a closeted gay friend from Jordan a while back and he informed me that in the middle east, Homosexuality is considered one of the highest offences. If your family finds out before it makes it to the police, its their right to kill the person to restore family honour. *shakes head sadly*

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#8

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:01pm

Why does anyone want to see that?

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#9

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:13pm

Those poor guys, thats horrible. Forget horrible, its just ridiculous.

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And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#10

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:14pm

wow....

It is such a sad world--especially considering in many parts of the arab world, homosexuality is quite rampant amongst unmarried men who can find no sexual outlet with women because of the restrictions Islam places on the position of women.

Of course, in this country, people are killed every day for the same "crime."

This is why being out is so important.

#11

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:19pm

Even more horrifying than people getting executed for their sexual orientation is that these two were only teenagers. Do the officials have no shame that they are murdering children?

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:19pm

"Of course, in this country, people are killed every day for the same 'crime.'"

They are? Every day? Where did you get that statistic?

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:41pm

What country is the "this country" being referenced?

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And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#14

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:54pm

You can be executed for having gay sex with teenagers?

And here I thought my parole officer was just trying to scare me!

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:11pm

"Of course, in this country, people are killed every day for the same 'crime.'"

If this is so, why is NAMBLA allowed to exist?

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re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:12pm

F*ck NAMBLA, what about the Catholic Church!

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#17

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:28pm

jesus, do you guys really take everything you read so literally? Are you so naive to think that just because our GOVERNMENT isn't executing homosexuals, they are not killing them? How about the Regan response to the AIDS crisis? How about weakening our armed forces by booting gay soldiers or translators?

And I'm not sure what NAMBLA has to do with this....

#18

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:50pm

When Mom says "Scrubbing this kitchen floor every time you kids track mud in here is KILLING ME!" I take it with a grain of salt.

When you say, in reference to two kids getting hung: "Of course, in this country, people are killed every day for the same "crime." " it doesn't really seem like a wild exaggeration. Until you explain you are REALLY talking about Reagan's pathetic AIDS policy 25 years ago and the current ridiculous "Don't Ask Don't Tell" crap-- THEN I realize I shouldn't take what you write "So Literally," cause, you know, when you say "Killed every Day" you don't mean 'killed' or 'every day' to be taken literally. Obviously.

Glad we cleared that up. So LilDogs "I appreciate your insight into this complicated issue!"

But, don't take that LITERALLY! You know what I REALLY mean, right?

#19

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:53pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex and taken out and executed because of the act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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#20

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:54pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex are taken out and executed by the government because of that act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

#21

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:54pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex and taken out and executed because of the act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

#22

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:59pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex and taken out and executed because of the act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

#23

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:59pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex are taken out and executed by the government because of that act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

#24

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:59pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex are taken out and executed by the government because of that act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

#25

re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:00pm

We are posting to a thread where two young men who have engaged in gay sex are taken out and executed by the government because of that act.

That is what is being discussed. The US government, with all its faults with gay rights, failure to act during the AIDS crisis, etc., hasn't done this.

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The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.