Talk:LGBT rights in Jordan
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There is nothing to show that honour killings have happened to LGBT individuals, nor is there any evidence about "sexual perversion" to show that it includes LGBT. Simply stating that doesn't make it a fact. Guess work is not aprecciated
The part of "does not look uncritically upon homosexuality" can be refernced within wikipedia as I read something about it.
also article 304 doesn't refer to Honour killings I checked, therefore after reading the peace in BBC I realized it is 340 so i corrected it. Please refrain from reverting it. This is
If there is no refernce then I will have to mark it as NPOV.
http://www.gaymiddleeast.com/country/jordan says that there is an active community and considerable freedom
http://www.actwin.com/eatonohio/gay/world.htm says that there is no law to prevent same sex intercourse or relations
"The Penal Code of 1951 makes no distinction between sexual intercourse by persons of the same sex or persons of different sexes." (Schmitt and Soefer – "Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies")
I would like that included without revert wars
--raraa 15:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the legal question needs to be cleared up. The British government's travel advice states: "Under Jordanian law homosexuality is illegal. Public displays of affection between homosexual couple could result in arrest and prison sentences." The travel advice is based on information supplied by the local British embassy and presumably they have checked.
I am not aware of any confirmed LGBT honour killings but that doesn't mean they do not occur. There is evidence that many honour killings (in general) go unreported.
See Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/jordan0404/
I have come across several JGBT Jordanians living abroad who believe they would be at risk of honour killing if they returned. The "rationale" behind these killings (loss of family honour) applies to same-sex relationships as much as it does to opposite-sex relationships. There is a reported case of a gay Jordanian who was shot (but not killed) by his brother in an "honour" situation. See: Jimenez, Marina: "Gay Jordanian Now 'Gloriously Free' in Canada". The Globe & Mail, Toronto, May 20, 2004. http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040520/GAY20/TPNational/TopStories
-- brian@al-bab.com
