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26 iunflJUL2QQ4 i'iu m i «mews SWITZERLAND witzerland’s Qiuncil of States (Senate) and National Qiuncil (House of Representa tives) have voted, in principle, for a same-sex partnership registration measure that would extend some marriage rights to gay couples, Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported June 3. Tlie legislation next returns to the National Qiuncil to resolve minor differences between the two bodies’ versions of the bill. The pro posed law would extend spousal rights in areas such as kinship, inheritance, pensions, taxes and health insurance hut not in the areas of adop tion, fertility treatment or a common surname, the report said. 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British Columbians are most likely to say homophobia is equally nasty (65 percent); Albertans are least likely (47 percent). Pollsters asked, “Personally, do you think that being homophobic is worse than being racist or anti-Semitic, as bad as being racist or anti-Semit ic, or not as bad as being racist or anti-Semitic.7” About 1,500 people were questioned, and the results are supposed to be accurate within 2.6 per centage points 19 times out of 20. The survey also found that 43 percent of Canadians approve of same-sex marriage and that 47 percent do not, the Globe and Mail news paper reported. Quebeckers are most receptive (51 percent) and Albertans least supportive (36 percent). 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It may be necessary.. .to remedy by law unjust situations in which the bonds of friendship are improperly disregarded (for instance, being excluded from appropriate consultation regarding medical care or from funeral arrangements). In such cases the right to justice is founded on the dignity of every human being and citizenship and not on sexual activity or orientation.” The Vatican, on the other hand, recently declared: “Those who would move from toler ance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the tolera tion of evil. When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common gcxxl is gravely immoral.” Neither the Vatican nor the English bishops approve of gay sex, which is a “mortal sin” that condemns one’s “soul” to “hell.” JAM AICA mnesty International launched an urgent campaign June 1 asking people to write Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson insisting he protect gays from violence and legalize gay sex. “Amnesty International has received many reports of vigilante action against gay peo ple... and of ill treatment or torture by the police,” the group said. “Gay men and women have been beaten, cut, burned, raped and shot on account of their sexuality. Once a person’s homosexuality becomes known to family or community, they are frequently at risk.” A
