* South Korea: South Korean officials are unsure what caused the explosion that on Friday sunk a naval ship near North Korean waters.* Zimbabwe: It’s stunning that of the very few items that government leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe can agree on one of them would be the suppressing of gay rights.
* Iraq: Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi appears to have won Iraq’s parliamentary elections by a razor-thin margin.
* Russia: Now it’s official – the U.S. and Russia agreed to a nuclear arms reduction agreement.
Image – MSNBC (“South Korean naval ship Cheonan in an undated picture.”)
Online Sources- Guardian UK, BBC News, Times Online, New Zealand Herald
de Clermont - regarding the two African leaders that agree to deny specially defined rights for homosexuals, although I disagree with them (except for the right to adopt) you should not be surprised. You need to wake up to the fact that outside of the Western and some Western-style industrialised countries, most of the world does not understand homosexuality (prefers not to think about it) and does not believe that it deserves special treatment under the law. Even in the Western industrialised countries there is a strong minority that do not understand and do not accept the issue. For me it is not an issue of two people of the same gender wishing to spend their lives together and create a mutually fiduciary bond, it is an issue of two PEOPLE wishing to do that. However, I do disagree that they should be allowed to "marry". They should be able to enjoy a civil union and all the rights of marriage, but not to have it be marriage. That is for heterosexuals by tradition and law.
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