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G raft S candal T hreatens C anadian M arriage B ill on getting married, hut in the States it’s hard.” EUROPE V atican U rges C ivil D isobedience in S pain The Vatican urged Catholics in Spain, including government employees, May 2 to resist the nation’s recently approved legislation allowing same-sex marriage and gay adoption. “Christians, even if they are state employees, are asked to become conscientious objectors, because the laws we are speaking of are deeply offensive to morality,” said Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family. He said Spain’s same-sex marriage bill “falsi Legislation legalizing same-sex marriage that has nearly completed its journey through the Canadian Parlia ment may he doomed. But even if the hill dies, same-sex marriage likely will remain legal in the seven provinces and one territory that have legalized it. Five other provinces anti territories have not done so. The problem is not lack of support for the hill hut rather that a corruption scandal may bring down rhe current government and lead to a new elec tion. The scandal involves allegations of kickbacks, payoffs and judicial appointments to party hacks, said Toronto-based 365Gay.com. If the Liberals win again, the hill likely would he quickly reintroduced. But if a Conservative coalition seizes Cardinal Alfonso Lôpez Trujillo encourages Catholics in power, right-wingers have promised to Spain to resist laws allowing same-sex marriage and introduce a bill to define marriage as adoption. between a man and a woman while fied the very definition of marriage,” while the giving gays civil unions. hill allowing gay couples to adopt “destroys Conservative leader Stephen Harper has the future of children [and] they suffer moral said he also wants to kill off legal same-sex mar riage in British Columbia, Manitoba, New violence.” “When they are able to think for them foundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, selves, when they grow up, what Saskatchewan, Que a tragedy when they have to say, bec and the Yukon ‘My parents are two men, or two Territory, hut it’s not at women,’ ’’ Lopez Trujillo told the all clear that would he Vatican’s Fides news agency. legally possible. “Their personality, their stability The provinces and is put at risk.” territories that have not legalized gay mar G ay C onservative MP riage are Alberta, New E lected in U.K. Brunswick, the North For the first time, an openly west Territories, gay Conservative was elected Nunavut and Prince May 5 to the U.K. Parliament. Edward Island. A Nick Herbert, 42, will rep court case on the mat ter is under way in resent Arundel and South [Towns, an affluent rural con New Brunswick. stituency near Brighton. Courts forced legaliza He received 49.8 percent of tion of same-sex mar riage in all the loca the vote in a field of five candi tions where it is dates. His closest opponent, allowed. a Liberal Democrat, got 27.1 Canada has no res percent. Foe to Canadian queers, Conservative idency requirements Herbert also is director of leader Stephen Harper vows to for marriage, and only rescind same-sex marriage in rhe right-wing think tank Quebec has a waiting provinces that allow it. Reform. period after purchase Another Conservative gay of a license. MP, Alan Duncan, came out only after being elected. A mazing R ace C ouple to M arry in C anada The gay couple from the most recent season of television’s The Amazing Race, Lynn Warren and Alex Ali, will get married June l in Ottawa. All travel and other expenses related to rhe wedding will be paid hy radio station Hot 89.9, which came up with rhe idea. “Lynn and I have always, always thought about getting married. We’ve been together for five years, and that’s like 25 gay years,” Ali, 22, told The Ottawa Sun. “We were always planning S cottish P arliament B ans A nti -G ay S peech Leaders of Scotland’s Parliament have pro hibited religious officials from addressing the body if they ate going to attack gays or other minorities, The Sunday Herald reported May l. The move follows an address hy Catholic Cardinal Keith O’Brien in which he called gays “captives to sexual aberration.” The United Kingdom’s Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association commented, “It’s great to
