Pro-gay countries are trouncing anti-gay nations at World Cup

Netherlands, which was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2000, won Group A (Photo: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

Countries that criminalize homosexuality did far worse at this FIFA World Cup in Qatar than nations that don’t kill or imprison people for being gay.

There were eight countries that inflict harsh punishments on citizens for being gay — dubbed by…