BOHICA06
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Sat Feb-11-06 10:29 PM
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26 gays get 5-year jail terms for capital party |
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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2006/February/theuae_February320.xml§ion=theuae ABU DHABI — The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance has sentenced 26 gays to five years’ imprisonment. They were arrested in a hotel in the capital recently dressed in women's clothes and make-up in preparation for a gay wedding. Freedom for some .... but not for all
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Deja Q
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Sat Feb-11-06 10:30 PM
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1. That's their country; their rules. We're not into nation-building... |
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especially when we can't even take care of our own nation.
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Dirty Hippie
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Sat Feb-11-06 10:39 PM
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2. I don't think the original poster was suggesting |
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Edited on Sat Feb-11-06 10:40 PM by Dirty Hippie
that we should bomb them or anything but maybe a little outrage is in order.
I mean, prison because you are gay?
Don't you find that outrageous?
On Edit: Typo
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PDJane
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Sat Feb-11-06 11:13 PM
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3. Depends on your point of view. |
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I've met some down there who think that would be a fitting punishment.......and I've met a man from Bavaria who think that gays should be killed.
I think there's a lot of work to do to override the religious brainwashing.
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Sat Feb-11-06 11:55 PM
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triakis36
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Sun Feb-12-06 07:01 PM
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There are such things as cultural differences, but this clearly falls in the line of human rights violations. Just because its a different country doesn't mean we don't have the jurisdiction to speak out against it.
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PDJane
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Sun Feb-12-06 09:24 PM
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6. That's not what I was getting at. |
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We should speak out about the human rights abuse, but right now there are too many in the United States who don't see it as a human rights abuse for credibility.
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La Lioness Priyanka
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Sun Feb-12-06 11:27 PM
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i am tired of hearing about cultural differences ... they only tend to pop up when speaking about women and gays...
bigotry is a universal problem
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