Europe Turns Back on Gays and Lesbians Seeking Seeking Asylum?

This L.A. Times blog story nicely summarizes recent legal developmnents in Europe in which various nations have been less than generous to gays and lesbians seeking asylum who claim that they fled persecution on account of their sexual orientation in their native countries.  Refugee experts Professor James Hathaway (Michigan) and Fatma Marouf (UNLV) are quoted in the post.  Who says that Europe is more “civilized” than the United States?

KJ