Thursday 8 August 2013

Bearing It

Why is the persecution of those who engage in homosexual acts unacceptable in Russia (or in Iran), but at worst unmentionable in the Gulf, or in Central Asia, or in Pakistan, and when carried out by the regimes that we went to war in order to install in Iraq and Libya?

Leaving aside the accuracy or otherwise of the interpretation, why is anti-homosexual opinion and action which sees itself as deriving from Christianity an outrage, while anti-homosexual opinion and action which sees itself as deriving from Islam is not?

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