A story that needs to be told....

You won't find this story in any newspaper...but torture of gay people in Saudi Arabia is about to happen.

This past March, as is their habit, Saudi Security forces raided a party in Jeddah, arresting 110 men for attending a gay wedding. The Manchester Guardian noted that local news reports said the men were dancing and “behaving like women.” The harsh Saudi laws leave the men with only one defense—deny they are gay and deny that a gay wedding was taking place. The event may in fact have been a birthday party.

Amnesty International warned that the 35 men convicted would be tortured. Their sentence is horrifying. Two of the men may die because they will be flogged a total of 2,000 times during their two-year imprisonment; 33 men jailed for one year will be whipped 200 times. Moreover, to avoid any confusion about the government’s policy, the other arrested men were called back to court and given one-year prison terms. The words strong enough to denounce such injustice elude me.

How tragic that a Google search found no daily newspaper in the United States that reported this story. Where’s the fairness and balance in that?