I'm well aware of "blue laws" in the US. Regardless, gays ARE executed, today, right now, in Iran under the color of law, AND religious sanction (the shia have a clergy, after all, and it runs the state).
Cite a single US law that has execution as a penalty for "unnatural acts," "sodomy," etc. Cite one that used to, just so you can at least say it used to happen. Again, in my post I said gays were executed in muslim countries, you then suggested that the US had anti-gay laws. That might be true, but killing people is worse than any other sanction possible. So sodomy being illegal back in the day is not at all the same as stringing up teenagers for having sex. I can post the pictures if you like, or you can simply google it.
In some areas of the US, there were extralegal killings of course, but this was, duh, against the law (even if winked at in the south not all that long ago). OTOH, if you want to go into the 50s and 60s for trouble in the US, slavery was legal in the muslim world at that time.
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