Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: BLAGUES-L: Melon d'eau Voici un extrait surprenant d'un article de l'agence Reuter: Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gaynet From: Skip Vogt Subject: Watermelon makes you queer And who says fundamentalists aren't fundamentally idiots??????? According to Reuters news service: Iran's parliament voted on Monday to ban the sale of seedless watermelon deemed corrupting by Moslem clerics. Deputies voted for the bill after a two-day debate in which a minority argued that people should not be denied watermelon because it has no seeds. ``The government has to defend Islamic and cultural values, just as it has to defend the borders...Spreading corruption, robbing the youths of moral values. Seedless watermelon promotes homosexuality and asexuality." The law will take effect after further debate on details of the bill expected in several weeks' time.