Badpuppy Gay Today

Wednesday, 30 April 1997

GAY ACTIVISTS INVADE ARCHBISHOP'S LAWN

Gay activists scaled the walls of the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury April 20 and disrupted a photo session to protest the Most Rev. George Carey's recent pronouncement that the only acceptable lifestyles for priests are heterosexual marriage or celibacy.

Carey, spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, was meeting with 16 senior clergy when the ten OUTRAGE! members dropped onto his lawn and activist Peter Tatchell grabbed him by the arm. A brief scuffle followed.

After about ten minutes, Carey reportedly said: "I find your manner offensive. That is enough I'd like you to leave my grounds."

The protesters left. The police were not called.

ROMANIAN CHURCH BLASTS GAYS

Homosexuals, drug abuse, "baby-murdering mothers," and "unnatural sins and debauchery" are destroying Romania, Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist said in his Orthodox Easter message.

The message was read in churches April 27, Orthodox Easter eve.

Teoctist denounced parliament for its technical legalization of homosexuality last year. Mps lifted the nation's sodomy ban under pressure from the Council of Europe but also passed two new laws that prohibit the development of any kind of gay community.

ONE QUARTER OF SWEDISH GAYS HAVE BEEN THREATENED

A new study by the Swedish Institute for Public Health found that one homosexual in four has been threatened or physically attacked because of his or her sexual orientation.

Two thousand gays and lesbians were surveyed.

Haakan Andersson, chair of RFSL, the national gay group, responded with a call for improved hate-crimes legislation, including the addition of sexual-orientation factors in the anti-incitement-to-hatred law.

RFSL stands for Riksforbundet for Sexuellt Likaberattigande.