[clue-talk] How do CLUEbies vote?

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 09-28 14:41, rjohnston at denverinternet.com wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 09:25 -0600, Sean LeBlanc quoth:
> 
> > It's funny the different propaganda efforts that are out there....what's his
> > name saying that there are no homosexuals in Iran...LOL. That might fly in
> > Iran, but that draws howls of laughter and outrage here. I remember a
> > Turkish girl I knew in uni days telling me there were no drugs in Turkey.
> > She said she never heard of any in the papers/news. As a westerner, that was
> > LOL funny. 
> 
> 
> actually...
> there are no homosexuals in Iran.  a friend of mine used to be a
> teacher/missionary there before that became illegal. 
> 
> being gay is illegal - capital offense. 
> where we have undercover cops to catch criminals - they have them to
> find any underground gays. 
> ie, if you get rid of all the homosexuals --> then there are no
> homosexuals there . . . 

Sure, assuming you catch and kill them all...but that's a never-ending
cycle, I would think, especially if people are born gay. They'd take a few
years to act on it, so you'd still have gays there. Just maybe not
practicing ones, and certainly not "out" ones. 

Maybe what he said got mistranslated, or he meant to say something else, who
knows. It'd make far more sense to say that being gay is not allowed in
Iran... it's still a funny thing to me to hear someone say something like
that. It's as if someone said there aren't any left-handers in our country,
because they are possessed by the devil or they are witches. Nevermind that
people are born left-handed. :) Same with the whole gay thing.

Anyway, before he made his gaffe, WSJ had this article that was above the
fold, IIRC. Gay tourism in the Middle East? Being gay is illegal in all of
the middle east! That's like selling drug tourism to the United States. The
only thing that seems gay-friendly about parts of the Middle East
(admittedly, I don't know much about gay culture or the Middle East other
than when Lonely Planet has gone to Iran and a few other places. Iran looked
beautiful to me...too bad about the politics and religion, though. ) are the
Turkish baths, I would think.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118816843366909236.html?mod=djemITP&apl=y

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In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there 
is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but 
an 'F' would only dignify it. 
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(contributed by Chris Johnston)