By Rex Wockner
International News Report
Australia's St. Patrick's Cathedral
is Picketed
 Archbishop George Pell delivers mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne |
About 40 gays picketed Easter Sunday mass and
conducted a "die-in" in front of Melbourne,
Australia's St. Patrick's Cathedral.
They chanted, "George Pell, Go to Hell." Pell is archbishop of the diocese. |
"We're here today because over many, many years George
Pell and the official rhetoric coming from the
Catholic church condemns homosexuals as invalid human
beings," protester Jonathan Wilkinson told The Age
newspaper.
"A significant number of suicides by gay and lesbian
people are due to a non-reconciliation of sexuality
with the kind of religious beliefs, ... discriminatory
social values and ... the awful rhetoric that
discriminates against people for no other reason than
their sexual orientation that is spewed forth by the
kind of people like George Pell and the Catholic
church."
The protesters also hung nooses on the fence
surrounding the cathedral.
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Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Blasts Gays
The head of Romania's Orthodox church, Patriarch
Teoctist, denounced gays in his Easter Sunday message.
"The fact that evil threatens to take over the world,
and what is abnormal is increasingly being taken as
normal, should be of concern to us all," he said.
"Young people should struggle against violence,
immorality, sins going against nature, alcoholism and
the hell of drugs."
The church has fought plans to decriminalize
homosexuality, a move Romania must make in order to
achieve membership in the European Union.
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