I guess it all depends on what you think is "normal". If you live in a society that thinks same gender love is an aberration, and many societies do, then I guess you have to do what you have to.

Gay men cutting off their penis simply doesn't register with anything I've ever read anywhere about "gay" men. Most "gay" men are as proud of their member as a hetero man.

In Sweden they have legalized "my favorite subject". So the pendulum can swing far either way.

And we have discussed other societies that allow 9 year olds to marry. Hell in the U.S. the marrying age was as young as 7 at one time. And if we have schools giving 11 year olds contraceptives and other birth control without parental consent, why have a "age of consent" as high as 18. Kids are having sex anyway. Contradiction anyone?

Iran thinks that homosexual acts are heinous enough to be punishable by death. Isn't it that societies right to determine what is acceptable? It took an internal war in this country to abolish slavery, but that was after all the conflicts required to eradicate the original inhabitants.

We are in no position to judge Iran for choosing to deal with the natural human aversion to homosexuality in this way.