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suthdj wrote:It is sad that they feel the need for a death penalty. However when you travel outside the US you are subject to the laws and court decisions of the host country and justice is not always the first concern. If christianity is illegal in Iran then he should not have been practicing it. I am not a biblical expert by any means but I believe the bible says something about obeying the laws of man.

The really interesting aspect of this issue is that Apostasy IS NOT even covered in Iranian Judicial Law. There is no crime for it. This is outside Iranian Civil/Criminal law and is being pursued as a religious crime that has no code to back it up. Once this became apparent, the Iranian government had to come up with something that they could point to in their own lawbooks to pin on this guy.