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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 2003)
PTTïïHFI new s IN TE R N A TIO N A L Trans L * im i I m h « (<i h«If> suppliti utui u i t/ « e h « -> he Vatican declared war on same-sex mar riage and civil union and domestic partner ship laws July 30. The (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a document titled Considerations Regarding Pro posals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons, stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unioas to he in any way similar or even remotely analogous to Gods plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law. Homosexual acts close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affec tive and sexual complementarity. Under no cir cumstances can they be approved." T he docum ent continued: “Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimiza- T yourself u fh t-t'i Io in « lore! Th« A« ««•Icraiuf: » I. mhv I i U. ri in « . ■ lOuni H i l l' AuRinf J6 fh unii 17fh Ilw Art in Seifner College International ni Life Coaching Sturtj Sept. 19, 2 0 0 } if n m n n a t i i i n ui u l i m r . 1-1507, Erickson.edu he European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously July 24 that an Austrian gay man who was evicted from his home after his part ner died was the victim of unlawful discrimina tion. The home had been in the partners name. T he ruling will extend protections to gay men, lesbians and bisexuals in 45 countries. Benefits and rights granted by governments to opposite-sex cohabitants now will have to he granted to same-sex couples who live together. T he court declared that differences in treat ment based on sexual orientation “require par ticularly serious reasons by way of justification.” Austria’s contention that it was protecting “the family in the traditional sense” was not a “co n vincing” or “weighty" enough reason for dis crim ination, the court said. 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O utside the office, gays celebrated with firecrackers, confetti and cider. “I am overcome with Marcelo Suntheim (left) and C esar Cigliutti became the first gay em otion,” C igliutti said. couple in Latin America to have their relationship officially “Tliis law frees gay men and recognized by a local governm ent women to he citizens." Activists with the Comunidad Homosexual tion of specific rights for cohabiting homosexu A rgentina organization are continuing their al persons need to he reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far push for a national civil union law. different from the toleration of ev il.... W hen GUYANA | legislation in favor of the recognition of hom o sexual unions is proposed for the first time in a he N ational Assembly of the small South legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has American nation of Guyana mothballed a a moral duty to express his opposition clearly hill to ban anti-gay discrimination July 24. The and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in measure was sent to a constitutional review favor of a law so harmful to the common gixxl committee for discussion and public testimony. is gravely immoral." lairing debate on the matter, 200 Christians Letting gay couples adopt children, the doc sang hymns outside the Assembly building. ument said, is nothing short of child abuse. Religious denom inations opposed the measure “Allowing children to he adopted by persons with the exception of the Roman Catholic living in [same-sexj unions would actually C hurch, which supported it. A similar hill mean doing violence to these children, in the passed the Assembly two years ago hut was vetoed by President Bharrat Jagdeo. sense that their condition of dependency would he used to place them in an environm ent that Guyana is 60 percent Christian and 30 per is not conducive to their full human develop cent Hindu. m ent,” it said. “This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognized U N IT E D K IN G D O M also in the United Nations C onvention on the ay British Member of Parliament Clive Rights of the Child, that the best interests of * Betts was banned from the House of C om the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable mons for seven days last party, are to he the paramount consideration in month because in Febru every case.” ary he gave a Commons job to a former prostitute *5* he was dating. The C om mons Standards and Privi ay sex is now legal everywhere in Europe. J f Fifty years ago, two-thirds of the 48 nations leges C om m ittee d e ter criminalized either gay male sex or both gay and m ined Betts broke the lesbian sex. MPs’ Code of C onduct by undermining public trust Clive Betts Armenia was the last European nation to decriminalize homosexuality. Its new penal and confidence in the integrity of Parliament. ci»de, which took effect Aug. 1, lifted the ban. Armenia was among the nations that were *9* required to decriminalize gay sex as a precondi ay cops in uniform led London’s Gay Pride tion of being allowed to join the G xincil of J parade July 26. About 80 officers marched. Europe. W hile Armenia falls outside the geo A post-march festival in Hyde Park attracted graphical definition of Europe, it is generally 60,000 partygoers and performers Bananarama, accepted as falling within the political concept Dead or Alive and Soft Cell. 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