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5.2003 r i U il * ' l T i e W S R U S S IA he Russian Orthodox Church cut ties Nov. 17 with the U.S. Episcopal Church because ot the Diocese' of New Hampshire’s recent consecration ot an openly gay man. Gene Robinson, as bishop. "We will not he able to cooperate with these people in the realm ot theological dialogue or in humanitarian, religious and public spheres," said the Moscow Patriarchy’s foreign church rela tions department. “We have no right to allow even a particle ot agreement with their position, which we consider to be* profoundly anti- Christian and blasphemous. “Homosexualism is a sin, which separates man from God," the statement continued. "The church does not deny help to those unfortunate people who are possessed with this ailment.... However, the church cannot approve ot the per version of human nature created by the creator himself. The church cannot bless the distortion of the image ot God.” Anglican churches in several African nations also have cut or reduced ties with the U.S. church or the New Hampshire diocese. tore, those individuals are not eligible for mar ried quarters. The [Ministry ot Defense! is look ing at this tor the future, but at the moment that is the situation." The United Kingdom lifted its military gay ban in early 2000. FR AN CE he man who stabbed and seriously wounded openly gay .Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe last year probably will not face trial because psychiatrists repeatedly have deemed him mentally unstable and not responsible for his actions, The Advocate reported. The charges against Azedine Berkane likely will he dismissed, and he will lx* committed to a mental institution. However, Delanoe still could insist that Berkane undergo a fourth round of psychiatric testing. Berkane stabbed Delanoe during a party Oct. 6, 2002, at City Hall because he dislikes homosexuals and politicians, he said. Delanoe spent two weeks in the hospital and underwent surgery to repair internal organs. BA R B A D O S ccording to a phone-in poll con ducted by Barbados’ Daily Nation newspaper, 616 of 667 callers rejected the government’s desire to decriminalize homosexuality to help slow HIV transmission. “Buggery” is punishable with up to life in prison. The majority of those opposed to the change, 295 callers, said they were Pentecostal Christians. Another 123 callers identified as “Christian.” ~V X ZOO A ZIMBABW E Canaan Banana, the former ^ leader of Zimbabwe who was outed and imprisoned for sodomy, died Nov. 10 at age 67 after a long illness. He was president from 1980 to 1987. Banana was jailed on 11 charges of sodomy, attempted sodomy and unnatural acts with men in 1997. He Greek activists demonstrate Nov. 14 in Athens against was accused of sexually assaulting uni a $1 17,000 fine imposed on a television station for versity students he taught, members of screening a show featuring two men kissing the State House fixitball team, police men, military officers, ctxiks, garden GR EE CE ers, aides, a job interviewee and a hitchhiker. He reece’s Mega Channel has been fined served only eight months of a 10-year sentence. $117,000 by the National Radio and The ruling ZANU-PF party’s Politburo Television Council for showing a male-male declared Nov. 17 that kiss on the weekly drama Close Your Eyes. Banana’s txxJy would not The council said the scene “could damage be interred in the nation’s young people by making them too familiar Heroes’ Acre cemetery because he had set a “bad with vulgarity.” Mega plans to challenge the fine in court. example to youth.” Instead, About 35 gays and transvestites staged a kiss-in he will be laid to rest at his Nov. 14 on the steps of the council’s Athens birthplace near the provin cial capital of Bulawayo Canaan Banana headquarters to protest the fine. after a “state-assisted funer UNITED KINGDOM al,” said Nathan Shamuyarira, Politburo secre female member of the Royal Air Force who I tary for information and publicity. married a woman last month in the Cana- ! GERMANY dian province of Ontario, where same-sex mar committee of Germany’s Federal Assembly riage is allowed, has been denied access to mar ried military quarters in Oxfordshire, England, approved Nov. 13 coastmction of a nation because such unions are not recognized in the al memorial to the approximately 15,OCX) homo sexuals sent to concentration camps by the Nazis. United Kingdom. Senior Aircraftwoman Samantha Wyatt, 26, The move was supported by the Social met her wife, massage therapist Christa McKay, Demixrrats and the Greens and opposed by the 25, during a Royal Air Force posting in Canada. Christian Demixxats. It faces a final vote in the “1 think the [Ministry of «Defense) are being full Assembly, where the two supportive parties totally unfair," Wyatt told the Rritish Broad have a majority. JH casting Corp. “Gays are allowed to be in the military now—why can’t they recognize same- Compiled by R ex Wcx.KNER, who has reported sex marriages?” for the gay press since 1985. 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