Original Headline: Video: Iran’s Punishment for Gays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-simxDbjU4
See Box Turtle Bulletin for explanation on how this ended up at Gays Without Boarders. Posting this without checking further was lazy and out of character for XGW. We apologize for inadvertently mischaracterizing the nature of the video, but nonetheless it is still an awful example of cruelty.
The sentence for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex in Iran it being thrown off a roof. This is not easy to watch so be warned. We have included it because, as with all human rights abuses, it should be impossible to ignore.
Hat Tip: Gays Without Borders via Box Turtle Bulletin
You might want to put the warning at the top: “This is not easy to watch so be warned.”
I know the video title says it too, but sometimes you’re just not prepared, or paying attention for that matter. But I think these kinds of videos and related disturbing photos should be brought to light every week.
Especially given Ugandagate (gandagate for short). Exodus International has officially allied itself with not only Scott Lively, but more practically, with Ugandan law.
Exodus International’s conference itself has now given it’s stamp of approval for Uganda’s treatment of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, the Transgendered, the Intersexed, and those perceived to be.
Those treatments include:
–Perpetual climate of hatred
–Life in prison
–Forced conversion therapy
–collateral violence
–etc.
So what does it say about an organization whose President and Vice President are not only at odds with their own organization, but are also unaware that they’re at odds with it?
This is deeply shocking and disturbing and to think that this is still carried out today is very worrying and disconcerting. To think that this can in any way be condoned or justified makes me feel horrified at the human ability to justify crimes and abuses to one another. Where is the humanity and compassion in religions who allow this. The irony is that these very same religious figureheads are the very ones who indulge themselves in same sex encounters.
Education is key to dispelling the steriotypes myths and falsehoods about same sex relations. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot…
100 buck says Scott Lively has favorited this video.
I didn’t have the stomach to click on the video. I still remember the picture of the two young gay men hanging from a crane in Iran.
Although the video was wrong, the premise of your blog entry was correct in that Iran does punish consensual homosexual sex by hanging. Here is an article from 2005:
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20050815/kim
More information can be found on the Wikipedia page for the two young victims:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Asgari_and_Ayaz_Marhoni