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W i ; •i news Planning your wedding? Visit us online at C "1 ay pop singer George Michael has included a gay song called “Flawless” on his new Patience album. “It’s about time I made a record for the hoys, really, isn’t it?” Michael told Britain’s Magic FM. “This is definitely a big Boys Town record. 1 think there will be people dancing around their handbags to this one. The gay clubs will love this one.” Michael, 40, was outed in 1998 after being arrested for allegedly waving his willy at a hunky undercover cop inside a park toilet in Beverly Hills, Calif. but the law is rarely enforced and only allows for 14 years in prison. Zanzibar is predomi nantly Muslim and might be moving in the direction of Islamic fundamentalism, news reports suggested. K EN Y A A frican Anglican bishops, meeting April 15 in Kenya, declared they will not accept donations from Anglican church es that welcome gay clergy. Cardinal Corm ac Murphy- The decision applies in O ’Connor was confronted particular to the U .S. Episco by London protesters pal Church, which supported because the Vatican blocked the recent election of G ene a U .N . human rights Robinson as bishop of the resolution Diocese o f New Hampshire. He is openly gay and sexually rotesters from the British active with his partner. gay group OutRage! harassed Cardinal Around 70 percent of African Anglican dio Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on April 4 as he entered London’s Westminster Cathedral for ceses’ income is believed to come in the fonn of gifts from the Palm Sunday Mass. U .S. church. “Your church protects pedophile priests “If we suffer while persecuting gay people in loving rela for a while to tionships,” activist Peter Tatchell chided. “You support legal discrimination against gay people gain our inde pendence and and oppose gay equality and human rights.” our freedom Murphy-O’Connor remained impassive as and to build he and his aides pushed through the group. ourselves up, I The protesters said they were punched and think it will be shoved by clergy and congregants who called a good thing them “sick” and “unnatural” and ripped placards for the church from their hands. The signs read: “Vatican Blocks Nigerian Archbishop Peter in Africa,” said , . . , . Gay Human Rights at U.N.,” “Catholics! STO P Nic^Han Arrh- Akinola is t refusing cmcifying queers” and “Gays are not ‘intrinsically ¡Nigerian /\r c n • . .1 1 1 c donations from the U.5>. disordered’— Shame on Catholic Catechism!" “We were protesting against the Vatican’s block Akinola, who Episcopal Church because it ing of a U.N. vote last week which would have con also chairs the wdcome* B3' ’ clerBy C ou n cil of demned homophobic discrimination and the Anglican Provinces of Africa. “We will not, on imprisonment, torture and murder of gay people,” the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, Tatchell said. “In over 70 countries homosexuality mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation. is still totally illegal, and in seven Islamic states “We do not want any money from the Episco homosexuals face the death penalty. The Vatican opposed the U.N. resolution condemning the per pal Church of the United States of America. secution of lesbians and gay men. It mobilized the This is not rhetoric. It is not a matter of a joke. We mean what we say.” Islamic countries to block the vote in the U.N. About half of the world’s Anglicans live in Human Rights Commission.” Africa. The Anglican Communion is composed of 38 independent national churches—such as the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of ritain’s first out gay ambassador txx)k up his Canada— that have ties to the Church of England. post in Luxemlxxjrg last month. James Clark, 41, and his partner, Anthony Stewart, are living S IN G A P O R E together in the official ambassador’s residence. refused March 31 to register the S ingapore ' W £ gay organization People Like Us and ordered gay man is using Britain’s new anti- its members to cease activity. The Registrar of Societies said acknowledging the group would discrimination law to fight, the Roman violate the Societies A ct’s ban on organizations Catholic Church after a charity refused to hire him because of his sexual orientation. that are “contrary to the national interest” and “likely to he used for unlawful purposes or for The 27-year-old social worker, who was not purposes prejudicial to public peace, welfare or named in news reports, was offered a job by gixxl order in Singapore.” Apostleship of the Sea, which ministers to the crews of ships in British ports, hut the offer was People Like Us said it would launch an appeal to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Howev withdrawn after the charity learned the man has a same-sex partner. The anti-discrimina er, the agency suggested April 7 that would be pointless. “As the mainstream moral values of tion law contains an exemption for faith Singaporeans are conservative, it is hence con groups, hut it is under assault in a separate case trary to public interest to grant legitimacy to the now before the High Court, according to The promotion of homosexual activities and view Independent newspaper. points,” the ministry said. For the time being, People Like Us has halt T A N Z A N IA he legislature of the Indian Ocean island of ed activity, hut a spokesman said its more than 1,000 members will continue to advocate for gay Zanzibar, which is part of the nation of rights individually. Gay sex is illegal in Singa Tanzania, voted unanimously April 14 to ban pore under “gross indecency” laws that allow for homosexuality. up to two years of imprisonment. 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