Iranian Minister tells British Members of Parliament that Gays should be hung and tortured.

What kind of a world do we live in where news like this goes largely ureported! This is one of the most bizarre, and sad, news reports I have read in ages! At first I thought it cannot be serious, but it is!

Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister - timesonline.co.uk: Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.
President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.
Minutes taken by an official describe a meeting between British and Iranian MPs at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a peace body, in May. When the Britons raised the hangings of Asqari and Marhouni, the leader of the Iranian delegation, Mr Yahyavi, a member of his parliament’s energy committee, was unflinching. He “explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted”, the record states. "He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce."

For those interested, there’s also a series of videos on Youtube about homosexuals in Iran, which can be seen here:

1.- Part 1 of 3
2.- Part 2 of 3
3.- Part 3 of 3

Reposted from Dvorak.org

Sadly, I'm sure that barbarism like this takes place all over the world, and in many cases it goes completely unreported. Certainly, we are aware that in Southern African lesbian women are frequently raped in order teach them to have 'normal' sexual relations with men.

Let's be praying for those who suffer under such acts, and those who perpetrate them.

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