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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.”
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V IE T N A M
ietnam’s top television show, The Crime
Police, tackles homosexuality this season in
a 10-episode story line. A
homophobic cop with a gay
brother whom he has reject
ed is assigned to solve three
murders that took place dur
ing gay sexual encounters.
The story is adapted from
the 2000 novel A World Bui Anh Tan
Without Women hy Bui Anh
Tan, who told reporters: “Society will have to
accept reality. They cannot deny it because it
already exists."
The cop eventually invites his still-gay broth
er home— an ending that the Ministry of Public
Security removed from the first two editions of
the Kx)k hut permitted in the recent third edi
tion. In the earlier printings, the gay brother
ended up embracing a heterosexual lifestyle.
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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.
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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.
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THE V A TIC A N
ope John Paul II lashed out at same-sex
unions again Sept. 4.
Speaking to Canada’s new ambassador to
the Holy See, the pope said: “The institution
of marriage necessarily entails the complemen
tarity of husbands and wives who participate
in G o d s creative activity through the raising
of children. Spouses thereby ensure the sur
vival o f society and culture,, and rightly
deserve specific and categorical legal recogni
tion hy the state. 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
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CANADA
anitoba became the fifth Canadian
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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