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i'iu m í 'm e te s eluded that much of the recent syphilis trans mission between men likely resulted from oral sex rather than unprotected anal sex. IT A L Y atican officials are circulating a draft of new church laws that would ban gays in seminaries and the priesthood. The document, prepared by the Congre gation for Catholic Education and the C on gregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been sent to theologians, canon lawyers and others for comment. It says that because Catholic teaching holds that gays are “objec tively disordered,” it makes sense to keep them out of the priesthood. 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The House of Lords Elephant Man is the reggae world’s Eminem extended asylum law to cover “particular social groups” in 1999. hatred in those young people’s eyes was fright The applicants presented evidence of ening. Some of them looked like they would kill threats, murders and machete attacks against me if they had the chance.” Jamaican gays as well as popular music lyrics urg ing listeners to hum, heat and shoot “chi chi men,” which is slang for “faggots.” Three of the he Independent Television Commission nations most successful groups, TO K, Capelton ruled Oct. 14 that a gay kiss shown by the and Elephant Man, have recorded such songs. ITV1 network before the 9 p.m. starting time for Gay sex is punished in Jamaica with up to 10 adult content was acceptable. years in prison at hard labor. 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