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This one ain't going behind an LJ-cut.
In other words, we're possibly helping to round up gay and bisexual men and lock them up in prisons -- prisons that are still in a horrible condition.
Major Ron Locke, from the Canadian unit assigned to train the local security forces, protests that "We are in a different culture. Different laws and different treatment standards are normal here."
This is sickening. There have to be limits to moral relativism. Our troops are there, so at this point it's not a question of getting involved in a foreign country. We are involved, and if even one person has been sent to jail for homosexuality with our help, that atrocity is on the hands of the whole country.
The Postmodern Plague has clearly clouded our judgement if we're aiding and abetting authorities to enforce homophobic and misogynistic Taliban law -- the modern equivalent of Nazi law. No legal system that included homosexuality as a crime deserves any respect whatsoever.
Anyone wanting to protest this can write to members of parliament. Postage is free, if mailed in Canada. The address is the same for all of them, so I've listed it at the end.
( List of relevant MPs to write to )
Sorry for the early-morning rant. I hope it's coherent -- I haven't had coffee, yet.
"Four years after the end of the brutal excesses of the Taliban government, Afghan authorities supported by the U.S.-led coalition, including Canada, are still jailing teenagers convicted of homosexuality and women accused of adultery, eloping or running away from their husbands."From Les Perreault of the Canadian Press, on 365gay.com.
In other words, we're possibly helping to round up gay and bisexual men and lock them up in prisons -- prisons that are still in a horrible condition.
Major Ron Locke, from the Canadian unit assigned to train the local security forces, protests that "We are in a different culture. Different laws and different treatment standards are normal here."
This is sickening. There have to be limits to moral relativism. Our troops are there, so at this point it's not a question of getting involved in a foreign country. We are involved, and if even one person has been sent to jail for homosexuality with our help, that atrocity is on the hands of the whole country.
The Postmodern Plague has clearly clouded our judgement if we're aiding and abetting authorities to enforce homophobic and misogynistic Taliban law -- the modern equivalent of Nazi law. No legal system that included homosexuality as a crime deserves any respect whatsoever.
Anyone wanting to protest this can write to members of parliament. Postage is free, if mailed in Canada. The address is the same for all of them, so I've listed it at the end.
( List of relevant MPs to write to )
Sorry for the early-morning rant. I hope it's coherent -- I haven't had coffee, yet.