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bullwinkle428

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Wed Oct 9, 2013, 10:40 AM Oct 2013

Kuwait to 'Detect' GLBTers With Test to Keep Them Out

Wow, good thing we liberated them back in '91!

"The Persian Gulf kingdom of Kuwait is planning to identify LGBT people through “medical screening tests” and bar them from setting foot inside the country and its neighbors, reports the International Business Times.

According to the Kuwaiti health ministry’s director of public health, Yousouf Mindkar, routine clinical screenings of those entering the Gulf Cooperation Council countries will soon include tests to detect LGBT people and keep them from entering.

“Health centers conduct the routine medical check to assess the health of the expatriates when they come into the GCC countries," Mindkar told local newspaper Al Rai. "However, we will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will be then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states.”"

http://www.advocate.com/news/world-news/2013/10/08/kuwait-detect-gays-test-keep-them-out

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Kuwait to 'Detect' GLBTers With Test to Keep Them Out (Original Post) bullwinkle428 Oct 2013 OP
What did they do? Get a "gaydar" machine from Dwight Shrute? Arkansas Granny Oct 2013 #1
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