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An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's Aceh province sentenced two men to public caning for engaging in what was deemed "sexual acts." The two men, 20 and 21 years old, were arrested after being seen kissing and hugging in a public park. Prosecutors sought sentences of 85 cane strokes, but since each defendant was polite and cooperative, the judges only assigned them 80 strokes each.
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Who are we to judge their culture.
Yes, different strokes for different folks! Some say 80 strokes, some say 85, ass long ass we're still alive! Some say enough strokes till the dead horse is no longer to be found, snot a trace at all... Not a hair nor a sinew, for the sin ye knew!
I say, more caning till we all be insaning! Even Santa Claus likes candy canes, butt he is badly cuntfused about twat kinds of canes are best! SATAN CLAUS, now SATAN CLAUS knows twat kinds of canes are best!
AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian will soon be here, offering all sorts of reasons WHY these men deserved their full 85 strokes, not a mere 80 strokes! After all, they KNEW twat the laws and the punishments were!
Also, AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian wants to know, will there be pubically available videos to watch, of this DELICIOUS pubic punishment process! Let's have caning till we all be insaning!
(Butt then AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian will ALSO be udderly DELIGHTED to offer to us all, sermons on how to be a GOOD Christian! All Hail AT and AT-Christian PUNISHMENTS!!!)
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So, sneeringly, says the uncivil, unsnivilized, and unsnivilizable sniveler-snob!
Looks like they both wanted as many strokes as possible, provided they came from another man.
I doubt Indonesia allows women to do the caning.
But the men would probably get some relief from Ms. Lido Caine.
If people like Sam Brinton and Jussie Smollett and all the self-flagellating AWFLs are any indication, this is all just a part of some societal-level BDSM-play.
My recollection is that the more Muslim provinces of Indonesia tended to be harsher towards buggery. Interestingly, the western faggotry often supports causes such as “Free Palestine” where at least some in that latter group would support harsh punishment for those homosexuals just being homosexual. Think “The Current Thing” has something to do with thus.
after being seen kissing and hugging in a public park.
Meaning they brought it on themselves.
LGBT Pedo is their own worst enemy. All they had to do was stay in the closet - the privacy of their own bedrooms, as they used to say once upon a time - and the rest of the world would have kept politely choosing not to notice them.
Pride man, it'll get ya every time. Devil's favorite sin.
I predicted this shit!!! See just a wee tad up further, near the very first posts... AT the Anti-Christian strikes again!
AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian will soon be here, offering all sorts of reasons WHY these men deserved their full 85 strokes, not a mere 80 strokes! After all, they KNEW twat the laws and the punishments were!
Also, AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian wants to know, will there be pubically available videos to watch, of this DELICIOUS pubic punishment process! Let's have caning till we all be insaning!
(Butt then AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian will ALSO be udderly DELIGHTED to offer to us all, sermons on how to be a GOOD Christian! All Hail AT and AT-Christian PUNISHMENTS!!!)
AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian hath NO shame and NO decency!
So you didn't read it.
Thanks for admitting your ignorance. Par for the course.
AT the Anti-Christian knows FAR better than Jesus Christ!
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207%3A5&version=ESV
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Ye PERVFECTED, Mind-Infected, punishment-worshitting Servant, Serpent, and Slurp-Pants of the Evil One!
AFTER one presents the facts (and the well-reasoned and ethical “right thing to do”), and the stupid and evil still resist… Because they are stupid and evil… Then one has to shrug, and say to oneself, “all that is left to me now, sad to say, is to warn others that we are dealing, here, with stupid and evil people”. John the Baptist AND Jesus had to deal with the same thing. Or do you think that THEY were stupid and evil, stupid and Evil One?
https://biblehub.com/matthew/23-33.htm
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So you still didn't read it. And you're not even talking about the subject matter at all anymore.
Thanks for admitting your ignorance. Par for the course.
The subject matter is YOUR PervFected, Mind-Infected worshit of the Evil One!
If you ever come around to wanting to work on your affliction, EvilBahnFarter-Fuhrer, start here: M. Scott Peck, The People of the Lie, the Hope for Healing Human Evil
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684848597/reasonmagazinea-20/
People who are evil attack others instead of facing their own failures. Peck demonstrates the havoc these “people of the lie” work in the lives of those around them.
If one of the men was a "lady bird" would they still get stroked with a cane?
If so then the LGBT community must be really confused.
If the other man looks like a lady then they would not be made example of? Perhaps that is why there's so many "lady birds" in Indonesia?
Coming soon to a theocracy near you. The caning may be extreme, but the morality enforced by law is just as real. The only argument is the proper punishment.
The proper punishment can cum ONLY from THE Biblical God Shitself!
God COMMANDS us to kill EVERYONE!
Our that them thar VALUES of society outta come from that them thar HOLY BIBLE, and if ya read it right, it actually says that God wants us to KILL EVERYBODY!!! Follow me through now: No one is righteous, NONE (Romans 3:10). Therefore, ALL must have done at least one thing bad, since they’d be righteous, had they never done anything bad. Well, maybe they haven’t actually DONE evil, maybe they THOUGHT something bad (Matt. 5:28, thoughts can be sins). In any case, they must’ve broken SOME commandment, in thinking or acting, or else they'd be righteous. James 2:10 tells us that if we've broken ANY commandment, we broke them ALL. Now we can’t weasel out of this by saying that the New Testament has replaced the Old Testament, because Christ said that he’s come to fulfill the old law, not to destroy it (Matt. 5:17). So we MUST conclude that all are guilty of everything. And the Old Testament lists many capital offenses! There’s working on Sunday. There’s also making sacrifices to, or worshipping, the wrong God (Exodus 22:20, Deut. 17:2-5), or even showing contempt for the Lord’s priests or judges (Deut. 17:12). All are guilty of everything, including the capital offenses. OK, so now we’re finally there... God’s Word COMMANDS us such that we’ve got to kill EVERYBODY!!!
(I am still looking for that special exception clause for me & my friends & family… I am sure that I will find it soon!)
Don’t forget… The above ALSO applies to Sacred Fartilized Egg Smells!!!
The entry point to the above-listed Deep Biblical Analysis is…
No one is righteous, NONE (Romans 3:10).
That means that NOT EVEN THE SACRED FARTILIZED EGG SMELLS are righteous! NO exception was listed for egg smells, fartuses, etc.! And if you follow the rest of the Biblical-literalness LOGICAL argument laid out above, then the Bible actually commands us to KILL said Sacred Fartilized Egg Smells!!!
WHERE are the Biblical literalists when we desperately NEED them?!?!
Since you're grossly ignorant on all things Christian, I'm going to teach you the first five books of the Bible in 30 seconds.
1) God loves you. You screwed things up. He still loves you. Stop pissing Him off. He'll forgive you even when you piss Him off, but please stop pissing Him off.
2) He's not cool with pagan heretics persecuting you. He will mess them up and save you from them. But you will have some rules to follow. They're not complicated.
3) Stop being a gross weirdo.
4) This is not mythology. We recorded it all. Meticulously.
5) Last warning. This is how the covenant works. It's not up for negotiation. Tell all your future leaders.
I do SNOT take ANY advice from LYING, self-righteous servants, serpents, and slurp-pants of the Evil One!
Get thee behind me, AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian, Satan, Evil One, Shitler, Stalin, and Ron DeSatan!
Coming soon to a theocracy near you.
We've already arrived.
The Green religion - worshipping the planet and forcing arbitrary faith-based laws on the rest of us to conform.
Producing carbon is the original sin. Even breathing puts the planet at risk. Sinner.