A radical Shiite cleric has called for the "depravity" of homosexuality to be eradicated but his spokesperson later said that that the remark should not be taken as a fatwa to kill gays. ... Moqtada Sadr made the call on Thursday during a seminar of clerics, police and tribal leaders.
There has been growing anti-gay violence in Iraq. Last month another Shiite cleric, Sattar al-Battat, repeatedly condemned homosexuality during Friday prayers, saying Islam prohibits homosexuality. Homosexual acts are punishable by up to seven years in prison in Iraq.
Can I just ask....who said being homosexual was wrong? And don't bring up the bible. Can anyone give me a good reason without the bible? Cuz...well...the bible is not a legal document, or scientific in any way. It's pretty much hearsay jotted down decades after events happened, then rewritten for centuries, till it pretty much, isn't the original text, which was just a bunch of guys telling a story by a campfire, to begin with.
Let's look at it this way....bicycle or unicycle. Now, while the bicycle is more common and more folks ride them, it certainly doesn't mean that the unicycle is wrong. It's certainly not as common, it's more difficult to learn, and I guess folks would look at you funny if rode one. But bicycles and unicycles both can share the roadways, follow the same laws and get a license, if they wanted.
But one or the other is not wrong, just different.
Heterosexual and Homosexual are different sexualities, but neither is wrong. Nature doesn't think so.
There are many creatures that are not only homosexual, but some even reverse what we call "normal". Take a seahorse...the male has the babies. There is a female bird that gets pregnant, lays eggs, then plops the male on the nest while she goes and gets knocked up again. You can find lists of creature that are homosexual.
(Interesting Note: Since gays cann't technically breed....STRAIGHTS are the one's having the gay babies. Think about that over your cheerios!)
And yes....I know all about "we were put here to breed". Does that mean that a het couple that finds out they are sterile should then get divorced? If an widowers decide they want to get married, they can't? Honestly, in this over populated world, can't we have a few couples that DON'T need to breed? Or do we proceed down the slippery slope that if you are going to get married, now you have to take a test to see if you CAN breed? And what if after the test you find out you can't? No wedding for you!
You know what I really think it's about: acceptance.
I hear it all the time, "They want us to accept a behavior that is wrong." Or maybe.....if we DO accept homosexuality for what it really is, just another way we were born to be, that would make it very uncomfortable for all those folks that have hidden away their homosexuality and live under the mask of heterosexuality.
All the preachers that have never accepted who they are. All the congress men who smuggle hot interns into their campaign HQ. All the talk radio hosts who want something, something they have never dared speak it's name. What would happen if, finally, it was "normal" to be a homo?
I guess they would have to admit that they had spent a lifetime lying to themselves, their spouses and their children. That it would have been OK to be gay.
Oh what a different life they would have had.....an honest one.
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