[lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 25 09:02:42 PDT 2007


On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:48 AM, ravi wrote:


> I cannot claim to peer in Ahmedinejad's brain, but I think Michael
> Smith's point about acts being considered illegal (not existential
> states or attributes) is relevant -- one could read him as stating
> that Iran[ians] does not subscribe to that particular form of
> classification [of sexual identity], and what they have laws against
> are acts such as X (e.g: X = sodomy, whether practised by someone who
> identifies himself as gay or merely as a Republican). Of course, such
> laws are unjust.

What western country has laws against "being gay," whatever that means? Or has ever had? Even the Catholic Church sorta accepts nonpracticing homos.

Doug



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