The British Home Office and the Dutch equivalent seem to think gays aren't persecuted in Iran.

Nevermind that homosexuality is punishable with the death penalty in Iran, and executions are still routine. Including that of the boyfriend of the gay man in question. But no, he's in no danger when he gets sent there! Pshaw!

I'm sick of the bashing of "asylum seekers" and "illegal immigrants". It's like Prohibition. Why criminalize something that ought to be a self-evident right, particularly when cases like this one are frequent? Immigration law that is designed to simply keep people out is inherently unjust and nonsensical -- but most people don't think about it because they've never been confronted by it. So it continues.

In a flamewar in another forum, I had to pat myself on the back for a creative phrase that I shall save here for posterity.

The poster and target of my ire said that homosexuality is "against nature". To which I replied:

How the flying f...ooey can something be "against nature"?! Do microwave ovens or PlayStations naturally occur?

Taking your implication to the obvious extreme, OK, gays remove themselves from the gene pool by being, you know, gay. You would think someone who cares little for gays ought to be pretty happy about them not passing on their rainbow-striped chromosomes to the next generation.