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22 | U S t O U t - October 1.2004 iTU ¡ ini inews Your # 1 choice 24/7/365 criminalizing homosexuality can he challenged only by people who have been “affected by it,” not by organizations. Government lawyers argued against legaliza tion of gay sex on the grounds that society dis approves of it. They also said, “While the right to respect for private and family life is undisput ed, interference hy public authority in the inter est of public safety and protection of health and morals is equally permissible.” Naz’s Shaleen Rakesh told the French Press Agency news wire service: “We are not pre pared to sit back and accept what the court is throwing at us. W e...will file a review petition in the High Court or take the matter to the Supreme Court.” 503 . 227.1212 L IN N T O N F E E D & S E E D . NOT TH E M ALL. 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In the earlier printings, the gay brother ended up embracing a heterosexual lifestyle. \ 'Remember when music was fu n ? 1 m i gp ...it stiff is A supporter of former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim protests his imprisonment near Kuala Lumpur in January F IN E A U D IO E Q U P M E N T A N D H O M E T H E A T R E S Y S T E M S S T E R E OT Y P E S AUDI O 2627 NE BROADWAY P O R T L A N D OR 503-280-0910 www.stereotypesaudio.com M A L A Y S IA ormer Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, jailed for nine years in 2000 for engaging in same-sex sodomy, was released from prison Sept. 2 after the Federal Court ruled the evidence against him had been unreliable. He has maintained that the charges were bogus and that he was framed because then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad feared Anwar was scheming to replace him. The max imum punishment for having gay sex in Malaysia is 20 years in jail and a flogging. F N E W Z E A LA N D 1: he first candidate fielded by New Zealand’s new funda mentalist Christian Des tiny Party will attempt to unseat openly gay Mem ber of Parliament Tim Barnett. Bone Marrow Trans plant Trust CEO Allison Nicol will challenge him Tim Barnett in the liberal Christ church Central electorate. Barnett says he’s not going to lose any sleep over the effort. BY TH E TfME W E MENTION PRICE W E ’RE OFTEN GREETED W ITH BLANK, FARAWAY STARES. Not that we don't understand the whole relaxation thing, but minutes into a private test soak, customers seem to forget the honesty and professionalism that's become the foundation of our 25 years in business. And our written energy use guarantee. And that HotSpring spas are in more homes than any other brand. 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Any attempts to change the meaning of the word ‘spouse’ contradict right reason: legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, cannot he applied to unions between persons of the same sex with out creating a false understanding of the nature of marriage." P INDIA he Indian gay and A ID S group Naz Foun dation plans to appeal a Sept. 2 ruling by the Delhi High Court that upheld the nations ban on gay sex. The court ruled that the law T CANADA anitoba became the fifth Canadian i province or territory to legalize full same-sex marriage via court order Sept. 16. The first gay wedding took place later in the day in Winnipeg between plaintiffs Michelle Ritchot and Stefphany Cholakis. “It is just so wonderful to be able to marry my beautiful Stef phany," Ritchot told The Winning Sun. Plaintiffs Laura Fouhse and Jordan Cantwell got married Sept. 18. “Words cannot express how much this means to us as a family,” Cantw ell told The Globe and Mail newspaper. “ Now our daugh ter will grow up knowing that her family is recognized and valued like those o f her friends.” In the ruling, Court of Queen’s Bench Jus tice Douglas Yard declared that the federal def inition of marriage as the union of a man and woman violates the Canadian Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Essentially identical rulings during the past 16 months legalized full same-sex marriage in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and the Yukon Territory. “The cumulative effect and the overwhelm ing effect o f that judicial authority is to the effect that the traditional definition of mar riage is no longer constitutionally valid in view of the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Yard said. “The traditional defini tion of marriage in Manitoba is reformulated to mean a voluntary union for life of two persons at the exclusion of all others.” O ne o f the plaintiff couples in the M anito ba lawsuit— Chris Vogel and Rich N orth— were the first C anadian couple to attempt to register a same-sex marriage, in 1974, after they were united in a ceremony at a U n itari an church. A court declared that marriage invalid. The next province expected to legalize same-sex marriage is Nova Scotia, where a court case is advancing. The jurisdictions where
