Iranian President Mahmoud "Nutcase" Ahmadenijad just finished an action-packed visit to the U.S. On day two, he was hooted at the United Nations. His first day in the U.S. was his best, though. That's when he spoke to alleged "students" at Columbia University.
After a scolding from the school president, Ahmadenijad rambled a bit about his wacky ideas and tried to defend his earlier statements that the holocaust didn't really happen. But the best part was when—in the kind of stunning cultural statement usually reserved for the Sean Penns and Susan Sarandons of the world,—Ahmadenijad announced there were no gay people in Iran.
If Iran's queasy core of supporters ever needed a reason to bash this boy, there it is. An entire country with no gay people? Heresy. In a world where diversity is celebrated above competence and common sense, this dude couldn't have made a bigger blunder.
The fact that Iran is building nukes doesn't bother some people. This will. Ahmadenijad may soon be booted off the world stage for insensitivity, if nothing else.
If not, expect gay leaders to push for the sexual desegregate the former Persia. From a distance, of course. Elton may cook up a Gay Rights concert for Iran, but you can bet he'll perform it somewhere else. Somewhere people still have the right to think, say and be...what they want without fear of the Muslim "re-education" squads.
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I guess Elton won't perform his concert in the U.S. were gays are denied many of the rights heterosexuals enjoy...You can say, think, and be homosexual here, but that doesn't mean the government, or the vast majority of the American population, won't exclude you anyway.
if homosexual people live in every country in the world, shouldn't they be accepted everywhere? shouldn't they have the same rights as heterosexual people? why is there so much controversy about this? why is this an issue?
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