SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
homes and “savagely at
Newman’s will said: “I
tacked” by Shia extrem
wish, with all my heart, to
ists from the Badr Corps
be buried in Father Am
or members of the Mahdi
brose St. John’s grave—
Army.
and 1 give this as my last,
Killing gays has be
my imperative will.”
come “honorable” in Iraq,
Some
British gay
the report said. “And rap
activists have suggested
ing them is OK because it
the decision is based on a
isn’t considered a homo
desire to obscure evidence
Apostolic Faith president Isak Burger
sexual act—only being
of Newman’s alleged
said the South Africa Constitution should
penetrated or providing
homosexuality prior to
not be "above the Bible.”
oral sex is.”
canonization.
The report concluded, “Changing Iraq’s at
Gay leader Peter Tatchell called the exhumation
titudes toward its gay minority may prove even
“an act of grave robbery and religious desecration.”
harder than ending the war.”
“It violates Newman’s repeated wish to be
buried for eternity with his lifelong partner,”
EUROPE
Tatchell told The Independent. “They have
300 Gay Cops, Staffers
been together for more than 100 years, and the
March in Manchester
Vatican wants to disturb that peace to cover up
In the largest such grouping ever, 300 gay and
the fact that Cardinal Newman loved a man. It’s
lesbian police officers and staffers marched in the
a shameful, dishonorable betrayal of Newman by
Gay Pride parade Aug. 23 in Manchester, Eng the gay-hating Catholic Church.”
land. The cops came from 16 police forces around
When St. John died, Newman wrote, “I have
the United Kingdom.
ever thought no bereavement was equal to that of
“I am totally overwhelmed with the
response we have had this year,” Sgt. Ju
lie Barnes-Frank, coordinator of Greater
Manchester Police’s Lesbian and Gay Staff
Affiliation, told the Press Association.
“Each year our presence gets bigger and
bigger, and this year it is true to say there’s
never been anything like it in the world.”
Meanwhile, England’s most southwest
The remains of English Cardinal John Henry Newman
erly county, Cornwall, saw its first Gay
will be exhumed and separated from his assumed
Pride parade Aug. 23 in the city of Truro.
partner of 30 years to prepare for beatification.
Some 600 people marched, and the Gay
Police Association flag flew from the Truro Police
a husband’s or a wife’s, but 1 feel it difficult to be
Station.
lieve that any can be greater, or anyone’s sorrow
greater, than mine.”
Church to Separate Bodies
Church officials claim that Newman was
of Cardinal Newman and Partner
not gay and that saints’ graves must be easily
In preparation for making him a saint, the
accessible to the faithful. They have accused
Roman Catholic Church will dig up the body
Tatchell and others of mistakenly superimpos
of influential 19th century English Cardinal
ing today’s categories onto Victorian times,
John Henry Newman and move it to a church in
when intense and passionate but celibate
Birmingham.
same-sex relationships apparently were com
mon among Anglo-Catholics. ©
The move will separate Newman’s bcxly from
that of fellow priest Ambrose St. John, with whom
Newman lived for three decades and beside whom
R ex W cxxner has reported for the gay press since 1985.
he demanded, in his will, that he be buried. The
He has a bachelor's degree tn journalism from Drake
men’s graves share a headstone.
University and started his career as a radio reporter.
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