“Did someone say ‘gay Iranian’, darling?”
(Okay, okay, so he's Parsi Indian. Same thing.)
Posted on 05/20/2008 7:39:06 PM PDT by SmithL
LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) --
Britain said Tuesday that it is granting asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who fears that he could face execution if forced to return to his homeland.
Britain's Border Agency said it would allow asylum for Mehdi Kazemi, who traveled in 2005 to London to study English and while there learned that his lover in Iran had been charged with sodomy and hanged.
Kazemi, 19, then sought asylum in Britain, but it was rejected, then in the Netherlands. The Netherlands' highest court rejected his claim in March, ruling that Britain was responsible for the case under European Union law because it was there that Kazemi first applied for asylum.
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The number of gay Iranians just increased dramatically.
Archbishop Rowan Williams needs a new boytoy.
“Did someone say ‘gay Iranian’, darling?”
(Okay, okay, so he's Parsi Indian. Same thing.)
I wonder how long it will be before Mr Kazemi goes to work subverting British government and culture. This is truly the age of irony.
The cretin should emigrate to San Fransissysko as should all the hispanic illegals, a large smorgasbord of misfits and scum (plus a couple of decent people).
What!! There are no queers in Iran. Their leader said so.
Life must be really difficult for homosexuals in countries that will kill you if they find out. There is no real way to suppress sexual feelings and desires in any person, whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is in gender, but the basic needs for companionship and intimacy are the same. I’m fine with gays as long as I don’t have to visualize what they do behind closed doors. I know a couple of gays who have both told me that they’d give anything NOT to be gay, one of them in particular telling me that it hurts when he thinks about the fact that he will never be able to have a child of his own. These are both very nice people whom I’ve known for more than 20 years, and who simply cannot change who and what they are. They are gay, and that’s just the way it is and will have to be for them.
In a nation that will hang a person for being gay (and will also kill female victims of rapists as “honor killings,” to name another wonderful practice of theirs), the theocratic iron fist just drives homosexuality further underground but does not eliminate it, for it cannot be eliminated. I don’t have any problem with Britain’s granting asylum to such a person in these types of tragic circumstances. Learning that your partner has been hanged is equivalent to learning that one’s girlfriend or fiance has been murdered. I don’t wish that on anyone. May he find peace in his new home.
There is no temptation too great than that which may be resisted through faith in Christ. Homosexuality is no different in this fashion than telling falsehoods, murder, slander, beastiality, adultery, fornication, and a litany of other vices. Those who prefer to live a soulish life miss out on a freely available eternal life.
I think we need to get the guy mentioned in this article a speaking tour. Maybe he could convince a few on the left that islamonazis are a bigger threat to them than anybody on the Christian or Orthodox Jewish right.
Sorry, can't go along with you on that one at all.
That’s an interesting idea; assuming that he hates his former government (and I don’t see how he couldn’t), he might make a very good spokesperson.
Wasn’t there a Gay African, with British Gay asylum, in court for a series of female rapes. the magistrate asked, “I thought you were Gay”, he answered, “I just said that to get asylum”.
It’s the latest thing.
Don’t take my word for it, take His.
1st Cor 6:9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
6:11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Romans 1:18-25
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
1:19 because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
1:21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1:23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
1:24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
1:25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.
1:28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
8:5 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
8:7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
8:8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
8:9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
5:21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
James 1:13-15
(13) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
(14) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
(15) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1st John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
1st John 3:6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
2nd John 1:9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
What the hell are you talking about Cvengr? Homosexuality is an ILLNESS. These people can’t stop it any more than they can stop cancer.
Sorry, but I still cannot go along with you on that one at all. To fully explain the multiple reasons why would probably require a few books’ worth of information. But I’ll just say quickly that there are many, many different interpretations of the Bible (hence the huge number of denominations — and even factions within those denominations — in the Christian faith).
Also:
1. I do not believe in Hell.
2. I do not believe in Heaven, at least as it is traditionally described. Angels, harps, clouds, even the notion that it is a place.
3. I believe that we are all multidimensional beings, and that the “you” that is reading this right now is, shall I say, a single “focus of attention” of which there are many.
4. We all mass-create our own reality. We are all co-Creators. We are doing it right now.
5. God is most accurately described as a gestalt.
6. Linear time is an agreed-upon illusion. It is a real part our reality here, but it is a consensus reality.
7. Traits, inclinations and talent are all results of the manner in which the multidimensional being’s (the true YOU’s) collective experience. For example, each soul is inherently BOTH male and female, in the spiritual realm. Each must experience both male and female physical lives. If a soul had chosen to live many female lives up to this point and thus had mostly female experiences and traits, then the first male life might be a difficult period of adjustment, and therefore this person may exhibit homosexuality. Talent works in the same way.
8. I do not believe that God condemns anyone for eternity.
9. There are many paths to oneness with All That Is (God), and Christianity is not the only one.
I guess that’s enough for now. You get the idea: We are not on the same page at all. This is OK; I don’t expect anyone in particular to believe what I believe. And yes, my beliefs do not fit any particular church, though I was raised Lutheran. They are a result of much reading and much introspection, and they absolutely make the most sense, both intuitively and logically, to me.
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