News from Iraq which bears watching
In a stunning move which has overshadowed the passage of a security pact with date certains for United States withdrawal from Iraq, the Iraqi Parliament has moved to passage of a law allowing for the creation of same sex civil unions.
Some gay rights proponents criticize the move as not going too far, believing that “civil unions” do not give the full equality granted with marriage. Said one leader, “We believe that full marriage equality is a human right above and beyond the ‘seperate but equal’ excuse found in ‘civil unions’, which at this point is unacceptable.”
At the same time, a broad based coalitition of Shiite and Sunni Religious Leaders have formed around the cause of defeating civil unions, and lopping off the head of any member of parliament who voted in favor of the act, or publically coming out in support of the law — including whoever it was whoever who said that quote which ended that last paragraph.
American officials quietly welcome this debate and controversy as a welcome controversy which might allow them to quietly leave Iraq in the dead of night without being noticed. Said one official, “Finally. The long awaited reconciliation between Sunnis and Shiites.”