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22 J***t o u t * September 6.2002 i’i u H i i i n e w s R e a c h us online Coventry Cycle (V W orks P W ËW ÊW tm justout. IK ’ ìj I ul H N A M IB IA Professional Service Com fortable Bikes Reeumbants a Specialty! S u b m it c la s s ifie d a d s. p e rs o n a l a d s a n d le tte rs to th e e d ito r (C O M E S EE W H Y !) O pen Tuesday-Sunday 230-7723 2 0 2 5 S E H aw thorne resident Sam Nujoma lashed out at gay men and lesbians again Aug. 16 while addressing delegates to the Namibia Public Workers Union Congress. “In Namibia we will not allow these lesbians and gays,” he said. “We fought the liberation struggle without that. We do not need it in our country. We have whites who are Namibians, hut they must remember they have no right to force their culture on anyone. If they are lesbian, they can do it at home hut not show it in public. “I warn you as workers not to allow homosex uality," he continued. “Africa will he destroyed.... 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The site claimed gays are sexual predators who support legalization of pedophilia, practice bestiality and strive to comipt all of society. A Vancouver gay man filed a complaint against the site in 1999, saying it vio lated his rights under the nation’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. he vocally anti- gay head of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia, ritish Columbia's VanCity Credit Sydney Archbishop ! Union has become the first Cana George Pell, has dian financial institution to court gays been accused of hav via mainstream daily newspapers. ing sex with a 12- One advertisement shows a male year-old altar boy. couple with their arms around each The incidents al other above the caption, “I want to legedly tixik place in bank with people who value all part 1961 when he was nerships.” Additional text states, “We studying at a semi were among the first to implement nary in Melbourne. industry-leading workplace policies Pell denied the charges hut stepped Sydney Archbishop George Pell has that respect all families by including down from his post been accused of having sex with a same-sex employee benefits, because it was the right thing to do.” temporarily anyway. 12-year-old altar boy VanCity, Canada’s largest credit “The allegations are false,” he said. “To allege that 1 am .. .person union, has received an equal number of support ive and*hostile telephone calls in response to the ally implicated in this evil is a smear of the most ads, according to the Natiorial Post. Previous vindictive kind.” VanCity campaigns in the mainstream media Pell has spoken out against gay rights and has refused communion to Catholic activists who reg targeted Chinese and indigenous Canadians. ularly attend Mass wearing rainbow-colored sashes. “The church’s teaching on this matter can ritish Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal not, will not, change,” he said in 1998. has ordered the small city of Terrace to pro “Although human weakness is universal and claim and advertise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and G od’s mercy infinite, the path to happiness and Transgender Pride Day. The town’s council had heaven for a Catholic does not lie in seeking to refused to do so. reinterpret what is right or wrong.” Terrace, population 13,000, is 930 miles Pell also has called homosexuality "a greater north of Vancouver. The tribunal said July 30 health hazard than smoking.” the City Council violated the provincial human rights code when it rejected proclamation requests from the Rainbow B.C. Coalition and roups of young Australian men get drunk, the Rainbow Committee of Terrace. then go lixsking for “ptxsfters" to heat up, a new report has detailed. “In many cases it is aggressive young men hav he Supreme Court of British Columbia gave ing a few drinks and then going out for the hunt, its blessing to a class-action lawsuit by gay for sport, to find a few ptxsfters to beat up— and couples seeking survivor benefits under the they get carried away” and kill them, Australian Canadian Pension Plan, the Canadian Press wire Institute of Criminology director Adam Graycar service reported Aug. 2. The judges said the case told the New Zealand Herald. He said the anti-gay is the appropriate avenue to settle the question. attacks are notable both for their randomness and Benefits are denied to gays whose partners their extreme, “frenzied” brutality, “with victims died before Jan. 1, 1998. Federal legislation tormented and wounded repeatedly.” passed in 2000 was retroactive to that date. The The report found that hashers who commit murder often are acquitted or receive signifi plaintiffs called the cutoff arbitrary. cantly reduced sentences after claiming they were fighting off a sexual advance or assault. “If he only gay bookstore in Quebec closed at every woman dealt with an unwanted sexual Ithe end of August. advance in this way, there would he bodies lit Montreal’s L’Androgyne had been on the tered all over the streets,” Graycar said. scene for 29 years. Owner Bernard Rousseau blamed competition from chain stores. “How can one compete with Cost- newly elected member of Parlia co/Price Club.7” he asked the local gay ment, Penny Wong of South magazine Fugues. “Not even to men Australia, has been outed by the Ade tion virtual bookstores such as Am a laide Advertiser daily newspaper. “In zon.com, which has an excellent selec Labor circles, it is also well known Sen tion and which frequently offers its ator Wong is gay, a fact she would pre bcxiks for less than L’Androgyne can.” fer to leave as a private matter,” reporter Samantha Maiden wrote. Penny Wong Rousseau also said video chains ( T A
