Back after a week's vacation, so I'm a bit late commenting on this story - about a gay Iraqi lamenting that life was better under Saddam's absolute dictatorship. But I think it raises an interesting point. Iraq has its first democratically elected governing assembly, which may enact a constitution that, by recognizing Islamic law, leads to persecutions of gays. (Of course, under Saddam, if you were a Kurd or Marsh Arab, you were subject to organized genocide, and any dissidence, even among the favored Sunni, would get you and your family - small children included - imprisoned, tortured and executed, but that's another story).
Here in the U.S., too, some gays may worship at the altar of the Democratic Party, but fear and loathe democratically elected governments that are against expanding legal equality for gays (and hence, they favor a strategy focused on achieving judicial decrees from left-leaning judges that can be enforced against the intransigent electorate).
So, is democracy good for gays?
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