If the Administration Speaks Out Against the Killing of Gay Iraqis, Will It Hurt Republicans in November?

Or is there a better reason no one is saying anything? From The Independent:

Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a 14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep by Iraqi police for the apparent crime of being gay. . . .

Campaign groups have warned of a surge in homophobic killings by state security services and religious militias following an anti-gay and anti-lesbian fatwa issued by Iraq's most prominent Shia leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. . . .

A number of public homophobic murders by the Badr militia have terrified Iraq's gay community. Last September, Hayder Faiek, a transsexual, was burnt to death by Badr militias in the main street of Baghdad's al-Karada district. In January, suspected militants shot another gay man in the back of the head.

We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars and tens and thousands of lives to bring democracy to Iraq. Can we at least clarify that the assassination of homosexuals by public servants is unacceptable? Or will taking such a stand upset James Dobson, Tony Perkins, and the conservative base they claim to represent?