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Spain official: Same-sex marriage jeopardizes ‘the survival of the species’
MADRID, Spain — Spain’s interior minister on Sunday waded into the ongoing debate over same-sex marriage, declaring that “the survival of the species” was at stake. Jorge Fernandez Diaz argued during a symposium on religion and state at the Spanish embassy in Rome, that “religious reasons” were not arguments against a law allowing same sex marriage.
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Focus on gay, transgender lawmakers in Poland after Walesa’s anti-gay remarks
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s first gay and transgender lawmakers will sit on the front bench in Parliament this week in reaction to hostile remarks by former president Lech Walesa.
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Nobel peace prize winner Lech Walesa shocks Poland with anti-gay remarks
WARSAW, Poland — Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to “adjust to smaller things.”
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Russia’s foreign minister defends bill to outlaw ‘homosexual propaganda’
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday rejected criticism from the Dutch government and the European Union about proposed legislation that would outlaw “homosexual propaganda.”
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Vatican dismisses report of corruption, underground network of gay priests
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election.
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Pope’s resignation linked to underground network of gay Vatican priests
ROME — A controversial article by Italy’s respected, leading daily newspaper, La Repubblica, has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of blackmail, corruption and a network of gay prelates in the Vatican.
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Turkish Court says gay sex is ‘natural’ in ruling against pornography vendor
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A Turkish Court ruled Monday that that gay sex is “natural,” contradicting a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court of Appeals in a similar case last year.
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European court rules Austria’s adoption law discriminated against lesbian couple
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled against Austria’s decision to deny a lesbian woman the right to adopt her longtime partner’s son.
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German court strengthens adoption rights for same-sex couples
BERLIN — Germany’s highest court strengthened gay couples’ adoption rights in a ruling Tuesday that the country’s justice minister greeted as “a historic step.”
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Gays rights activists in Belarus face police reprisal
MINSK, Belarus — Police in Belarus are going after gays, raiding their clubs and locking up clubbers overnight, and summoning gay activists for questioning. One activist accuses police of beating him during questioning, while others say they were interrogated about their sex lives.