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Senegal court imposes strict sentences for homosexuals
Azerbaijan News.Net Thursday 8th January, 2009
Nine homosexual men in Senegal have been sentenced to jail for so-called unnatural acts.
The sentence was the harshest ever handed down to homosexual men in the country, where the practice is illegal.
The judge found the men were also members of a criminal organization and added another three years to the maximum sentence.
Their alleged criminal association was to belong to an organization that was set up in Senegal to fight HIV and AIDS.
The men have said they will appeal their sentences.
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Mehmud 01-08-09, 09:19 AM |
Senegal court imposes strict sentences for homosexuals
Senegal must end this inhuman policy of treating gays and lesbians like criminals. Sodomy laws were instated by the British who have since rescinded them in their country and countries like Pakistan and Senegal that still have them should repeal them for the sake of human dignity. What people do in private should be of no business to the state. Senegal cannot expect to be part of the modern world without ending unjust laws like these.
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concerned party 01-08-09, 11:20 AM |
God is watching
God is watching whether you are sodomizing in open public or in private. God says it is wrong. Read it in God’s word, the Holy Bible. Good for Senegal to uphold God’s word. Clearly the British are in decline and are becoming morally lazy by rescinding the sodomy laws. Homosexuals are sinners just the same as thieves, murderers, adulterers, etc. Send them to prison with chasity belts. They must be held responsible for their sexual sin.
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Anonymous 01-08-09, 05:08 PM |
Mehmud;122753: Senegal must end this inhuman policy of treating gays and lesbians like criminals. Sodomy laws were instated by the British who have since rescinded them in their country and countries like Pakistan and Senegal that still have them should repeal them for the sake of human dignity. What people do in private should be of no business to the state. Senegal cannot expect to be part of the modern world without ending unjust laws like these.
Based on your argument I guess you would like to recind the child porno laws as well. Nature herself shows you that sodomy is unnatural. Going down a one way street creates problems.
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Anonymous 01-08-09, 05:19 PM |
Mehmud;122753: Senegal must end this inhuman policy of treating gays and lesbians like criminals. Sodomy laws were instated by the British who have since rescinded them in their country and countries like Pakistan and Senegal that still have them should repeal them for the sake of human dignity. What people do in private should be of no business to the state. Senegal cannot expect to be part of the modern world without ending unjust laws like these.
If privacy is the issue, then incest shopuld be OK if its done in private. ...what about pedaphilia?......One can also argue that modernity does not mean that a practice or policy is apropriate to be adopted.
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Anonymous 01-08-09, 05:15 PM |
Tell me why homosexuality should be made acceptable? I am missing something here.
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Aditya Bondyopadhyay 01-09-09, 08:20 AM |
Bigot Judges
This is what happens when Judges do not dole out justice, but instead dole out bigotry and prejudice. They have given more punishment than is even prescribed in the law, and they call it justice. The Jokers..!!
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Aditya Bondyopadhyay 01-09-09, 08:28 AM |
God Who??
To concerned party: Good if god is watching..!! I am sure this god thing, whoever she is, does not have anything better to do. But then gays are not interfering in her voyeurism, so there is no reason why she should be hell bent using her pimps (i.e. your kind of people) to disturb the peace for gays. In other words, buzz off, its none of your business what people do in their bedrooms, nor is it god’s business. AND MOST CERTAINLY IT IS NOT THE JUDGES BUSINESS. They are supposed to impliment the law, not god-woman’s fancies.
To Anonymous: Yes you are missing something, its about a century and a half of scientific developments about the understanding of homosexuality. Once you take off the tints of prejudice that is bugging up your vision right now and clouding your mind, you may begin to miss less and see more.
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