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Ju st out 23 P7ïïWrineu>s www.citystarch.com/pdx/rosecityvet Continued from Page 21 Sin ce then, the council has demanded proof that no m em ber organization is soft on pedophilia, which the association has been unable to document to U .N . satisfaction. 1LGA— composed o f hundreds o f gay organizations from around the globe— acquired consultative status in July 1993, which allowed it to observe meetings and conferences and pre sent papers to U .N . human rights bodies. “This is a sad day for human rights at the United Nations,” said Kursad Kahramanoglu, ILG A co-secretary general. “Governments who have no interest in observing the fundamental principles o f human rights have triumphed. T he homophobic position o f so many countries only emphasizes yet again the need for energetic and effective campaigning around the world for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons. A fundamental human right has been sacrificed at the altars o f Islam and Catholicism .” “Our policy is zero tolerance for any of those type of things,” Principal David Brent told the London Free Press. “T his school is very tolerant; we have a great community here. [Discrimina tion] is not an issue most of the tim e.” RUSSIA bill to recriminalize gay sex was introduced April 22 in the lower house of Russia’s parlia ment, the Duma. The measure would punish “the unnatural satisfaction of sexual desire of one male with another male” with up to five years in prison. T he bill’s authors say it will uphold morality, reduce prostitution and pornography, protect marriage and combat the spread o f sexually trans mitted diseases. Russian legislators deleted the old Soviet U nion’s ban on gay sex nine years ago. Gays protested April 26 outside the Duma wearing concentration camp attire and pink trian gles. “All that’s left now to be completely in line with Hitler’s ideas is to demand re-establishment of the death penalty for homosexuals,” protester Nikolai Kramov said. A R o se G ill/ VETERINARY HOSPITAL 232-3105 i V e & i& id e s j t o r i & L AUSTRIA AUSTRALIA 'h e International Lesbian & Gay Associa irime Minister John Howard said April 19 tion denounced Austria for its discrimina that kids are more fulfilled when they grow tory age of consent law April 17. A rticle 209 of the nation’s penal code sets the legal age for male-male sex at 18, four years higher than for male-female or female-female sex. “It [is] the most serious human rights violation against gay m en not only in the European U nion but in the whole of Europe,” ILG A - Europe said. “Any case coming to the knowledge of the authorities must be officially prose cuted [with] a Kurt Krickler is fighting to overturn Austria’s discriminatory age of consent law minimum sen up with a mom and a dad rather than gay parents. tence of six months in jail.” “The evidence does suggest that children raised Austria’s Constitutional Court is expected to rule by June in a case challenging the legality o f in the environment of having both a mother and a A rticle 209. “Austria is creating a huge credibil- father are more likely to have happier, more ful- ity problem for the European U nion, which is filled lives,” he said, failing to reference his data, demanding the strict observance o f human According to the Age newspaper, the government rights by accession [former East Bloc] countries hopes to overturn a recent High Court ruling that and putting the repeal o f any anti-homosexual upheld access to fertility treatments for single women and lesbians. law provision as a precondition for admission to the EU while Austria is allowed to continue its EL SALVADOR human rights violations against gay m en,” said esponding to the Kurt Krickler of Homosexual Initiative Vienna. < ongoing priestly pedophilia scandal, El CANADA Salvador’s C ath o lic he justice minister o f Quebec says a gay civil unions bill will be law by June. T h e archbishop, Fernando Saenz Lacalle, said measure was “tabled” April 26 in the province’s April 22 that gay men N ational Assembly. should be banned Paul Bégin said same-sex couples who tie the knot will have all rights and obligations of mat- from the priesthood, “There is an rimony, such as access to adoption, insemina exclamation mark on tion technology and join t parenting— including homosexual tendency having their names on their child’s birth certifi Fernando Saenz Lacalle among those who cate. “This is a historic event for gays and les commit these crimes,” bians, for their families and for all o f society,” he said. “There must be a greater selection said Irène Demczuk, Q uebec C oalition for the [process]. It is advisable that people who have this Recognition o f Sam e-Sex Spouses president. [homosexual] tendency not enter seminaries.” In the U nited States, estimates are that half 1 hree teens were suspended from school and or more o f C atholic priests are gay. 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