Iraqi Gays Are Being Murdered

The freedom that America has brought to Irag looks like this:

"Graphic photos obtained from Baghdad sources too frightened to identify themselves as having known a gay man, and seen by the Observer, show other gay Iraqis who have been executed. One shows two men, suspected of having a relationship, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs - guns at the ready behind their heads - awaiting execution. Another picture captured on a mobile phone shows a gay man being beaten to death. Yet another shows a corpse being dragged through the streets after his execution."

How can this occur in a 'fledgling democracy"?

"Homosexuality is seen as so immoral that it qualifies as an 'honour killing' to murder someone who is gay - and the perpetrator can escape punishment. Section 111 of Iraq's penal code lays out protections for murder when people are acting against Islam."

This is extremely depressing. The United States should grant assylum and refugee status for the victims of fundamentalist religion in that country. After all, it was American intervention that allowed this type of violence to occur.

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Worldwide Rash of Good Gay News

The past few days has brought some really good news for GLBT people.

On Wednesday, a Honk Kong court ruled that sodomy laws there are unconstitutional. [365Gay.com]

And today, Fiji's sodomy laws were ruled unconstituonal as well. [365Gay.com]

In Hong Kong, gay sex between men under 21 carried a life sentence, and in Fiji, two men were convicted and sentenced to 2 years in prison.

More Gays to be Killed in Iran?

Doug Ireland of PageOneQ is reporting rumors of two gay men with be given the death penalty in Iran on August 28 for committing consentual homosexual acts.

Religious extremism kills, doesn't it Michele Bachmann? and James Dobson? and Fred Phelps?