How disgusted…Part 2

Meanwhile, back in Iraq, Shiite death squads are killing gays in accordance with a fatwa issued last October by al-Sistani, whose website says, “The people involved [in homosexuality] should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.” The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has confirmed that gay Iraqis are being kidnapped and murdered, but the US doesn’t give a crap. As Blogenfreude notes, “Here in the U.S., though, they'll start with a constitutional amendment—one step at a time.”

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