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may 6. 2005 » just OUt. 23 fWTTTl news added. “The Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against [recognition of homosexual unions). To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common gixxl is gravely immoral. “Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in [same-sex] unions would actually mean doing violence to these children,” Ratzinger said. “This is gravely immoral.” Catholic doctrine teaches that gay sex is “intrinsically evil,” “objectively disordered,” “deviant” and “contrary to the laws of nature.” S panish P arliament OKs S ame -S ex M arriage be the wish of same-sex couples to have children bur must be what is in the best interest of the children,” said Premier Edmund Stoiber. Bavaria will target the law in the Federal Constitutional Court. ASI A/PACIFIC Hong Kong’s Police Tactical Unit raided a gay fashion show April 17 in a bar at King’s Hotel. Officials later claimed they were executing a search warrant against the premises and were not targeting the. attendees or the fashion show, which featured men in swimsuits and underwear. The show was stopped only 10 minutes after it began, and the 300 guests were searched and had their identifications checked for about an hour. One man was arrested for drug possession. B euing H olds G ay F ilm F estival An appeals court April 20 in Bordeaux, China’s second gay film festival was staged April 22 France, upheld the annulment of a same-sex to 29 in Beijing by the Film marriage performed last year by Begles Mayor Assixziation of Beijing Noel Mamere. University. Mamere and the gay couple—Stephane Seven movies and five Chapin and Bertrand Charpentier—had argued dixzumentaries from China, that the French civil code does not prohibit Taiwan and Hong Kong same-sex marriage. The spurned grixims plan an appeal to the European Ctxirt of I luman Rights. I were screened, along with two French films. France has a civil unions law for gay couples About 10,000 people but d<x?s not allow them access to full marriage, were expected to attend. even though polls suggest the French people Tickets cost $1.20. would support doing so. For more information visit bglff.byhoo.com.cn. jn B avaria to F ight About 10.000 people attended Beijing's gay film festival. A gainst G ay A doption The German state of Bavaria will challenge a new federal law that allows registered same-sex couples to adopt each other’s children. “The deciding factor in an adoption cannot 4224 SE Hawthorne Blvd 503.231.8704 museartanddesign.com MuseArt+Design equip I inpopm I iospire H ong K ong P olice R aid G ay F ashion S how Spain’s Congress of Deputies voted to legal ize same-sex marriage and adoption April 21. The vote was 183-1 36 with six abstentions. The bill now moves to the Senate, where it should pass as well, although the Senate’s approval is not necessary for the bill to become law. The measure modifies the Civil Code in 16 N epalese P olice B eat places, mostly replacing rhe words “husband” U p T ransgender C itizens and “wife” with “spouse” and rhe words “father” Police officers from the Durbar Marg station and “mother” with “parent.” It also states: “Mat in Kathmandu, Nepal, beat up a group of 18 rimony will have the same requirements and transgender women who were walking April 1 3 effects when both parties are of the same sex or on Kantipath Road, Human Rights Watch said. of different sexes.” Nine of the “metis" (Nepalese men who Spain will be the third country to legalize full ; dress and identify as women) were severely beat same-sex marriage, following the Netherlands en with batons, gun butts and sticks, the organi and Belgium. Eight Canadian provinces and ter zation said. ritories and one U.S. state also allow same-sex “This attack is only the latest of a string of couples full access to marriage. police assaults in Nepal against transgender peo About 66 percent of Spaniards approve of ple,” said Scott Long, director of Human Rights gay marriage, polls have found. Watch’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender The first same-sex weddings should occur by Rights Program. “In a country where political September. and civil rights have been suspended, the vio lence sends a message that no one who kxiks or A ustrian MP S ues G ay O rganization acts differently can feel safe.” Austrian People’s Party Member of Parlia The metis attempted to report the incident ment Walter Tancsits has sued the gay group to the Durbar Marg station but were refused Homosexual Initiative Vienna (HOSI Wien) in entry. They proceeded to the Bir Hospital, both civil and criminal court for accusing him of where their injuries were treated and recorded, “taking ideological views of the Nazis.” Human Rights Watch said. “It’s a disgrace for the country that even today mental descendants of the brown Nazi S ame -S ex M arriage B ill myrmidons, such as Tancsits, are sitting in the I ntroduced in T asmania Parliament,” the group said. The Green party introduced a bill to legalize HOSI’s president, Christian Högl, and its same-sex marriage April 12 in the Parliament of secretary general, Kurt Krickler, also are named the Australian state of Tasmania. in the suits, which seek a retraction and dam Although the national Parliament passed a ages for libel and defamation. law last year defining marriage as between a man HOSI made the remarks in a press release and a woman for federal purposes, states might after Tancsits opposed including the Nazis’ gay remain free to ch<x»e their own definition. victims in the Victims Compensation Act, and “By clarifying that federal law only recog helped engineer their exclusion when a parlia nizes marriage between a man and a woman, last mentary committee considered the measure. year’s federal marriage amendment freed the In an April 16 press release, HOSI said it states to legislate for same-sex marriage under “suspects that the real reason behind these legal the constitutional marriage powers they share actions is to intimidate and to financially dam with the commonwealth,” said Tasmanian Gay age a critical [nongovernmental organization] as and Lesbian Rights Group spokesperson Rixlney HOSI Wien has been a decided opponent and a Croome. “In its crusade to shut one d<x>r to most vocal critic of the right-wing government same-sex marriage, the federal government inadvertently opened another.” in power since 2000.” F rench M arriage R ejected mATERIALS and RESOURCES for EUERUDAU ARTISTS Compiled by R ex W< x :KNER, who has reported fin the guy press since 1985. 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