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declares that all sex outside of heterosexual mar
riage is sinful and renounces his past support for
queers, which reportedly has included ordaining
gay priests he knew were not celibate. “We ask
Rowan Williams if he is unwilling or unable, per
sonally and publicly, to make these affirmations,
to withdraw his acceptance of the nomination to
he the next archbishop of Canterbury.”
The anti-gay Anglican organization Evangel
ical Alliance posted a letter on its Web site
Sept. 29 in which Williams was quoted as saying:
‘‘No archbishop of Canterbury can make policy
for the whole Anglican Church, nor should he
seek to do so. 1 have no agenda of my own to
implement on this matter, and the resolutions of
the Lambeth Conference [which rejected the
validity of gay relationships] must determine my
conduct.... My task is to state the majority view;
if asked I can expound the debates around it, hut
I have no business to alter it hy fiat.”
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Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe was stabbed in
an anti-gay attack Oct. 6 at City Hall
FRANCE
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olice in the London borough of Newham
have set up a self-defense class for gay, les
bian, hi and trans people, the Newham Recorder
reported Sept. 25. They will learn jujitsu self-
defense and confrontation-avoidance techniques
and hear about the risks of meeting sexual part
ners from the Internet or in public cmising areas.
The course is 18 hours long, spread over six
Monday nights. It is funded with a $2,700 grant
from the Police Property Act Fund.
P
penly gay Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe
was stabbed in the stomach during an all-
night party Oct. 6 at City Hall. He required
three hours of surgery and remains hospitalized.
Delanoe is expected to make a full recovery.
Several internal organs were damaged, doctors said.
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The attacker, Azedine Berkane, told police
eeds
has
become
the
third British city to set
he dislikes politicians and especially homosexu
up a gay partnership registry, after London
als. The 39-year-old Muslim said he has strong
and Manchester.
religious views that homosexuality is unnatural.
As in the other two cities, the Partnership
‘‘Berkane is no ayatollah, hut he is a believer,
Register and Commitment Ceremony grants
and he told us that his religion prohibits homo
few legal rights and obligations. It is seen as
sexuality,” a police officer told the Agence
mostly symbolic.
France-Presse wire service.
“Leeds is a thriving, dynamic and forward-
The Paris daily newspaper Le Monde quoted one
looking city,” Councilor Angela Gabriel told
of Berkane’s neighbors as saying, ‘‘He did not like
the Yorkshire Post. “T he introduction of com
homosexuals, and he did not care who knew it.”
mitment and partnership ceremonies will add
Another neighbor said: “Here, we are all
to our reputation as a city that welcomes
homophobic because it’s not natural. It’s against
diversity and tolerance.”
Islam. There are no Muslim gays.”
Paris Deputy Mayor Christophe Girard
ARGENTINA
called Berkane “clearly a deranged
he C atholic archbishop of
person.” He has been placed under
investigation for attempted murder.
I Santa Fe reportedly has been
recalled to Rome permanently after
Berkanes lawyer, Anna Salabi,
revelations of his sexual relation
denied Oct. 9 that the stabbing was
ships with young seminarians.
a hate crime.
Edgardo Gabriel Stom i s alleged
“I understand that public opinion
numerous affairs and abuses are
wants to explain this distressing act,
Edgardo Gabriel
detailed in a new book, Our Holy
but there is no rational explanation
Stom i
Mother. Argentine gay activists say
for the attack which cannot, for the
time being, be described as either a political or
the church has been aware of the truth for eight
years, following its own investigations, hut man
homophobic act,” she told AFP. “My client is a
person who speaks in an incoherent way that
aged to scuttle any scandal until journalist Olga
W omat’s publication appeared.
reveals great distress. He is totally depressed and
completely dramatizes his life. He told investiga
tors he did not like homosexuals, hut 1 have the
PERU
feeling he is lost.”
he administration of Lima’s Pontifical
Catholic University has distributed to each
Berkane reportedly also told police he feels
student a pamphlet describing homosexuality as
“persecuted by a satanic cult,” AFP reported.
a curable sickness.
At the time of the attack, Delanoe was par
ticipating in the “Sleepless Night” festival, dur
Rector Salomón Lemer Febres said the
ing which museums and tourist attractions stay
brochure was prepared at the request of Lima
open all night and special artistic events take
Archbishop Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the
place throughout Paris. City Hall was playing
colleges chancellor. Several student organiza
host to an electronic lounge music concert.
tions denounced the pamphlet and charged that
the university has lost its independence from
the local Catholic hierarchy.
UNITED KINGDOM
n Anglican network has asked incoming
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
AUSTRALIA
Williams to resign even before he takes his seat
ydney has its first over-the-air gay television
as leader of the worldwide Anglican Commu
show. DV8 airs weekly on Channel 31 with
nion, which includes the Episcopal Church in
what the Sydney Star O bserver called an “eclec
the United States. The conservative organiza
tic mix of segments and a host of roving guest
tion, Reform, is composed of 1,500 prominent
reporters."
Anglicans, including 500 priests.
Producer Craig Payne is best known for his
It said Williams must step down unless he
large-scale party events. The program has received
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