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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-
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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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N a tio n a l C a ta lo g u e S a les ~ w w w .j o y c r e e k .c o m
atin A m erica’s first
civil union ceremony
took place July 18 in
Buenos Aires. Activists
Cesar Cigliutti and Marcelo
Suntheim got hitched at
the Civil S tate Registry
office under the city’s new
Public Registry of Civil
U nions law.
Registered couples re
ceive spousal rights in areas
such as insurance, health
care, hospital visitation and
hank loans. 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
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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
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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. In a video address
of Europe.
to festival attendees, Britain’s top cop, Metro-
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