Reply #4: My my my.... what would Saddam say??

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iraq


Homosexuality was legal in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and remains so. In late 2001 when seeking the support of religious conservatives the sentence for non consensual acts of sodomy and indecent assault was decreed by Revolutionary Command Council Resolution 234 of 1991 to be the death penalty. This law has been inaccurately reported as 'criminalising homosexuality' - it did not. Despite the change in law there where no known cases in which the death penalty was applied for the offence by Iraqi Courts. Hussein had previously refused to criminalise homosexuality, as it went against the secular and socialist beliefs of the Ba'ath Party.

The Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003 ordered that the 1969 Penal Code revert to the 1984 3rd edition.

Homosexuality is not de jure illegal but remains taboo. As of 2009, some Iraqi militias have been known to seek out and kill homosexuals and transgender Iraqis.