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Malaysian Prime Minister Disparages Gays
"But there is a limit," Mahathir said. "For example, in Western culture they accept homosexuality, including promoting homosexual practices among school children. We cannot accept this. We admit that some people are born with their sexuality mixed up. That is not their fault. But to promote homosexual practices actively as is being done in some European countries is to purposely promote abnormality." Gay Indians Upsetting to Their Parents Gays are coming out of the shadows in India, the Kyodo News Service reported February 5. Authorities are registering one new gay activist group about every six months and the eight-year-old New Delhi gay film festival was opened to the public for the first time this year. "An increasing number of middle-class Indian gays are 'coming out of the closet,' much to the disapproval and consternation of their families," Kyodo said. The agency credited the growth of gay life, in part, to satellite television and the Internet. Israel Accepts Foreign Partners
The cases were championed by Member of the Knesset Yossi Paritzky who told the local Ha'aretz newspaper: "I advised the first couple who turned to me to get married because marriage is status. If the marriage was recognized in one country, another country cannot refuse to recognize it, and the Ministry of the Interior is then obligated to register their marriage. In the case of [Israeli citizen] Shuki [Yatir] and [Belgian] Paul [Vanwinsberga], I suggested they go a step beyond. The country recognizes the status of common law spouse, even of the same sex, and thus there's no reason not to demand in the name of this status citizenship as well. I think that an important step for human rights has been taken." |
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called homosexuality an "abnormailty" that should not be promoted by the Malaysian government 
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