IGLHRC Executive Director issues letter on Iran teen hanginings

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Paula Ettlebrick, the Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, has issued the following letter regarding the reports about the hangings of two teenage boys in Iran.

COMPLETE LETTER: http://pageoneq.com/news/2005/IGLHRC_Executive_Director_on_the_Iranian_exec_0729.html
Short link: http://tinyurl.com/ex5zt


Dear Friends:

How have we all gotten to a point of seeming to be at odds or in different"camps" about what did or did not happen in Iran regarding the execution of two young men? What happened is outrageous, no matter how we look at it – public executions, putting juveniles to death for any reason (which, by the way, the US Supreme Court only struck down this past term!! – god knows what will happen with John Roberts on the bench), executing anyone (women, gay people, children) because their sexuality, sexual desires, sexual activity, or gender are at odds with cultural norms developed to control us, or, in IGLHRC’s opinion, imposing a death penalty on anyone for any reason.

And, of course, it strikes a particular chord of outrage for us as people who are lesbian, gay, bi or trans – to think of our lives as so expendable and our sex so grotesque.

Read the rest of the letter at: http://pageoneq.com/news/2005/IGLHRC_Executive_Director_on_the_Iranian_exec_0729.html
Short link: http://tinyurl.com/ex5zt