Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
#0Iran 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
#1re: 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.
#2re: 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.
#3re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:50pmI'm stunned. There is also no mention of this anywhere on the CNN website.
#4re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:52pmUgh. Just...blarg.
#5re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:54pmThere is a link to the picture of them being hanged on Datalounge.
#6re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:00pmDisgusted: 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*
#7re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:01pmWhy does anyone want to see that?
#8re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:13pmThose poor guys, thats horrible. Forget horrible, its just ridiculous.
#9re: 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.
#10re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:19pmEven 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?
#11re: 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?
#12re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:41pmWhat country is the "this country" being referenced?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: 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!
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#14re: 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?
#15re: Iran executes two teens for having gay sex
Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:12pmF*ck NAMBLA, what about the Catholic Church!
#16re: 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....
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: 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?
#18re: 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.
#19re: 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.
#20re: 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.
#21re: 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.
#22re: 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.
#23re: 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.
#24re: 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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