Common Ground in Iraq: Curtailing The Gay

This is a sad indicator that whatever might emerge from Iraq, it will perpetuate at least some human rights abuses:

The amnesty bill drafted by the Shiite-dominated government falls far short of Sunni demands. About the only thing on which the two sides agree is that imprisoned gays not be freed.

Sunni and Shia disagree on questions they consider fundamental enough to justify killing and dying, but they agree that the gays have to be kept down. The situation doesn't sound much better for the gay Iraqis who have not yet been imprisoned:

Death squads imposing strict Islamic law are reportedly responsible for the murders of hundreds of gay men across Iraq.

Last year the leader of an exiled Iraqi LGBT rights group told a London conference on homophobia that that militias blamed for the murders of hundreds of gay men and women are sanctioned by the government and the US-led coalition is doing little to stop the killings.

And there we have the third and fourth partners of an anti-gay coalition: Islamist death squads receiving winks and nods from the US occupying force, which in too many cases, seems to regard itself as a "Christianizing" force.