Posted on 08/11/2010 3:08:49 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
As the battle over gay marriage, and more specifically, Prop 8 in California, rages on, we hear more and more about the higher level of sophistication in other countries. Gay marriage is already accepted in many different parts of the world, they say. We are the lag-behinds, the bumpkins, the ones who just can't get with the program.
Wondering if this was true, I began researching the attitudes and laws concerning homosexuality in other countries. Whilst on this quest, I came across an interesting factoid about, of all places, Iran.
Yes, Iran. Apparently in Iran, they DO HAVE a ceremony that allows for two gay men... lovers... Muslims... to spend the rest of their lives together. In Iran!
It's not exactly the same as here, but it has many of the same elements: There's a large gathering of family, friends, and people from the village or township. A festival atmosphere prevails. The two lovers stand before the world, side by side, indisputably together. There are officials, who conduct a brief ceremony with prayer and invocations. And after this ceremony, the two lovers spend the rest of their lives side by side.
They don't call it a wedding, though, they call it a... oh, what's the word... well, I don't know what the word is in Arabic, but in English we call it a "hanging." Yes. They stand side by side up on the scaffold, then they take that step together. Snap. They do spend the rest of their lives together, as I mentioned. Of course, the rest of their lives is only a couple seconds, but... there you go.
For gays who go around saying that Americans won't allow gay marriage because they "hate," here is a reality check. Just become someone won't give you what you want, it doesn't mean they hate you.
If they murder you, however, that's a pretty good sign.
So! When we gonna build that mosque at Ground Zero, eh? Hey, think Dave and Steve could get married there?? I mean, David and Steven?
It’s called “buggery with a consequence.”
I’ll just be cranky right along with you.
Those boys were hung ...
I remember when part of being Americans meant we prided ourselves in not caring what everyone else was doing and then conforming to it.
We were leaders, not followers.
And by not conforming to the rest of the world we became the undisputed champion of freedom, creativity and opportunity in world history...and the rest of the world did they best to copy us.
It seems that there is an 18 year old boy sentenced to be hung right now in Iran charged with homosexual assault.
http://modernityblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/ebrahim-hamidi/
Of course the same left-wingers who support making it a crime to speak out against homosexuality here in the U.S. are also many times the same ones who defend the terrorists and dictators of Iran.
When this news of the 18 yr old came up I asked one of them if the Iranian regime is willing to be this brutal to people based upon issues such as homosexuality or adultery (the women who was sentenced to be stoned) then do you really want to allow them to get their hands on nuclear weapons? Do you really think that they will not use them?
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