[Vision2020] Six gay men shot to death in Iraq

[Tom Hansen]

How soon people forget (or simply want to forget) Wil Hendrick.

http://www.uiargonaut.com/archives/020601/newsstory1.html

We all have out theories.  But, I'm guessing that nobody cares that much 
about the homicide in 1999 of a local gay student.  Ten years after the 
murder of Wil Hendrick . . .

Rest well, Wil.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho




> You are deliberately distorting my point.
> 
> What about the conservative Chridtians in the US that kill gays and  
> claim they are justified in doing so because of their interpretation  
> of the Bible, an interpretation shared by some "locals."
> 
> Joe Campbell
> 
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Donovan Arnold  
> <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Joe,
> >
> > I am trying to say that your comparison of conservative Christians  
> > in the United States to those that shoot and kill men who are  
> > suspected of being gay in the Middle Eastern Culture is  
> > intellectually dishonest.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Donovan
> >
> > --- On Sun, 4/5/09, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Six gay men shot to death in Iraq
> > To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 4:32 PM
> >
> > Are you trying to say that the over the top persecution of gays by  
> > fundamentalists - Christian and otherwise - is not connected with  
> > violence toward and the legal oppression of gays?
> >
> > Joe Campbell
> >
> > On Apr 5, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Donovan Arnold 
<donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com 
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Christians that dislike gays don't shoot them in a plotted murder  
> >> and burn down gay bars and coffee shops, and they certainly don't  
> >> do it openly and publicly to their family members and walk away.  
> >> Nor do they thrown gasoline on woman and light them on fire for  
> >> breaking a commandment. These societies are primates with guns.  
> >> Christians don't support murder, and legalized rape.
> >>
> >> The comparison is FUBAR.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Donovan
> >>
> >> --- On Sun, 4/5/09, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Six gay men shot to death in Iraq
> >> To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >> Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 12:06 PM
> >>
> >> Donovan,
> >>
> >> I don't think that hatred of gays is particular to any one  
> >> religion. Why on this very town there are Christians who hate gays.  
> >> That doesn't mean we should draw any conclusions about Christians  
> >> in general or our "Christian nation."
> >>
> >> Like you I condemn radical views from any religious point of view.  
> >> Religion cannot justify wrong action.
> >>
> >> Joe Campbell
> >>
> >> On Apr 5, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Donovan Arnold 
<donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com 
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> I want to know, from some of these liberals that want to protect  
> >>> the lifestyle of the Middle Eastern Nations, how you think these  
> >>> societies should be allowed to exist where people kill members of  
> >>> their own family, simply because of their sexual orientation. And  
> >>> not just kill them, but premeditated massacres.
> >>>
> >>> Afghanistan is voting on a bill that legalizes men to be able to  
> >>> rape their wives, and these are supposedly the "good people" in  
> >>> these societies. Pakistan's ruling Taliban set their women on fire  
> >>> for disobeying Muslim law, or their Husband. The Middle East  
> >>> forces woman to marry men they do not know, love, or even like.
> >>>
> >>> Doesn't it make since to wipe these societies out? Eliminate them  
> >>> while they are still small in size and limited in power? How many  
> >>> millennium must pass before woman, gays, lesbians, and those that  
> >>> are a little different stop being set on fire and shot before the  
> >>> world says, "ENOUGH! evolve already, of or we will destroy your  
> >>> Neanderthal cave man thinking society."?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six gay men were shot dead by members of  
> >>> their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an  
> >>> official with Iraq's Interior ministry said.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/05/gay.deaths.iraq/index.html
> >>>
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