Ahmadinejad: 'We Don't Execute Homosexuals' in Iran

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I didn't say they don't exist; I said not the way they are here (in the U.S.)," he said. "In Iran, it's considered as a very unlikable and abhorrent act. People simply don't like it. Our religious decrees tell us that it's against our values, and all divine laws, actually, believe in the same. Who has given them permission to engage in homosexual acts? It's considered as an abhorrent act. It shakes the foundations of a society, the family foundation.

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Ahmadinejad: 'We Don't Execute Homosexuals' in Iran

In a Sept. 26 interview with the radio program Democracy Now!, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his nation does not execute people for the crime of engaging in gay sex.

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