Columbia Update

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said there were no gay people in Iran, his Columbia University audience laughed. But there’s nothing funny about Iran’s real attitude toward gays: Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister. Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt. Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged. ...