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Two Moroccan men jailed for kissing in public.
Two Moroccan men jailed for kissing in public
Two Moroccan men have been jailed and fined for kissing in public in a trial criticised by human rights groups.
The pair, named Lahcen and Mohsine, received four-month sentences after being caught smooching in front of Rabat’s famous Hassan Tower on June 5th.
Homosexual activity in Morocco is punishable by up to three years in prison.
A lawyer for the 37 and 25-year-old said they would appeal.
Their jailing comes just a week after magazine Maroc Hebdo asked on its front cover: “Should we burn gays?”
The edition was eventually withdrawn after public outrage.
Its editors said the headline and story were meant to stimulate debate.
Bible verses for homosexuals.
Habakkuk 1:12 ... O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment ...
Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
II Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
Two Moroccan men jailed for kissing in public
Two Moroccan men have been jailed and fined for kissing in public in a trial criticised by human rights groups.
The pair, named Lahcen and Mohsine, received four-month sentences after being caught smooching in front of Rabat’s famous Hassan Tower on June 5th.
Homosexual activity in Morocco is punishable by up to three years in prison.
A lawyer for the 37 and 25-year-old said they would appeal.
Their jailing comes just a week after magazine Maroc Hebdo asked on its front cover: “Should we burn gays?”
The edition was eventually withdrawn after public outrage.
Its editors said the headline and story were meant to stimulate debate.
Bible verses for homosexuals.
Habakkuk 1:12 ... O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment ...
Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
II Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;