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tatuuary fi. 2ÛQ4 » i 'i 'J i H 'i n e w s British Columbia is one of two Canadian provinces where full same-sex marriage was legalized by court order last year. The other is Ontario. Foreigners can marry in those provinces, as well. They can purchase a license and marry the same day. C an ad as federal government has said it agrees with the rulings by the British Colum bia and Ontario supreme courts and will legalize same-sex marriage nationwide this year, although there has been some foot- dragging at the federal level since Paul M ar tin replaced Jean Chrétien as prime minister Dec. 12. The only other nations that let gays marry under the ordinary marriage laws are Belgium and the Netherlands. Numerous countries offer same-sex civil unions or domestic partnership registration. *CK T ay activists have denounced the Roman J Catholic Grand Séminaire de Montréal for instituting a policy requiring that priesthood candidates submit to an HIV test. Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte said the testing is not aimed at ferreting out homosexuals hut rather at discovering applicants’ health status. Some other Canadian Catholic seminaries require the test, and some do not. The Quebec Human Rights Commission said it will study whether the forced tests violate the provincial human rights charter, Toronto’s Globe and Mail reported. U N ITE D K IN G D O M A bout 68 percent of 16,871 men questioned in the United Kingdom’s latest Gay Men’s Sex Survey expect a prospective sex partner who is HIV-positive to reveal his status before they have sex. A total of 44 percent of HIV-negative and untested respondents would decline to have sex with someone who revealed his positive status. About 45 percent would go ahead and have sex hut be “extra careful.” “ In this climate, it is difficult to see what incentive men with HIV have for disclosing their HIV status,” researchers said. “ Dis abusing negative and untested men of the notion that positive HIV disclosure will hap pen— and that their risk assessments can be based on such an assumption— remains a vital health promotion aim.” B E LG IU M ost gays and lesbians are not really gay, they’re just per verts, Belgian Ro man C atholic Cardinal G ustaaf Joos told the weekly P-magazine Jan. 21. “All those who say they are les bian or gay, a max imum of 5 to 10 percent are effec- According to Belgian lively lesbian or Roman Catholic Cardinal gay,” said Joos, 80. G ustaaf Joos, 90 percent “All the rest are to 95 percent of queers simply sexual per- are “ sexual perverts” verts. Don’t hesi tate to write that down. I demand you write that down. I don’t care if they all come and protest at my door. I won’t open the door.” A spokesman for the Belgian Catholic hier archy said Joos was speaking only on his own behalf. Pope John Paul II made J ix k a cardinal last year. B e 1 g i a n cardinal who has been seen as a possible candidate for pope says HIV positive people must use con doms when hav ing sex with an uninfected part ner. The state ment contradicts Roman Catholic teaching, which Brussels Cardinal Godfried demands that Danneels contradicted every sex act Catholic teaching by must be open to encouraging HIV-positive the possibility of people to use condoms pregnancy. "When someone is seropositive and his partner says, ‘I want to have sexual relations with you’— he doesn’t have to do that, if you ask me— but when he does, he has to use a condom,” Brussels Cardinal Godfried Dan neels, 70, told a local television program Jan. 11. The church says married couples should not have sex if one of them is HIV-positive, and it prohibits all sex outside of marriage. It’s a you parade. 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