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Human Rights Watch criticizes
India over arrests of 4 gay men
Human Rights Watch denounced India on Jan.
11 over the arrests of four gay men in the city of
Lucknow.
The men were nabbed at a picnic in a public
location, Jan. 4 and charged with operating a
"gay racket" on the Internet and engaging in
"unnatural" sex.
Police "accused them of belonging to an 'inter-
national gay club' centered around [a] Web site,"
the organization said. "Reports received by
Human Rights Watch indicate that undercover
police, posing as gay on the Web site, entrapped
one man, then forced him to call others and
arrange a meeting where they were arrested."
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
Human Rights Watch said India's colonial-era
sodomy law threatens human rights and encour-
ages the spread of HIV.
"Lucknow police have a shameful record of
harassing gay men as well as nongovernmental
organizations that work with them," the organiza-
tion said, "They are able to do so because India's
government clings to the criminalization of
homosexual conduct, which only prevents people
from coming forward for HTV/AIDS testing,
information, and services."
In July 2001, Lucknow police raided the local
offices of two HIV organizations, Saz
Foundation International and Bharosa Trust. Four
staff members, who were accused of running a
gay sex racket and distributing "obscene" HIV-
education materials, were jailed for 47 days.
Charges of sodomy, criminal conspiracy, aid-
ing and abetting a crime, and sale of obscene
matter were later dropped after international
human rights groups complained.
In New Delhi, meanwhile, some 25 gay
activists staged a protest Jan. 12 demanding that
the new arrestees be released. The demonstration
took place outside a building owned by Uttar
Pradesh state, where Lucknow is located.
Section 377 of India's penal code, titled "Of
Unnatural Offences," punishes "carnal inter-
course against the order of nature" with up to 10
years in prison. A legal case against the law,
brought by the TSJaz Foundation, is pending
before the Delhi High Court.
Los Cabos hotel kicks gay Mexican
couple out for kissing in pool
A gay couple from Mexico City claims securi-
ty guards from the Hotel Presidente
Intercontinental in Los Cabos beat them up and
threw them and their luggage into the street last
month after they briefly kissed in the swimming
pool, Reuters reported.
The couple said the guards told them, "We
don't like faggots."
But a hotel spokesman claimed Gerardo Eliud,
a 27-year-old public relations officer, and Samir
Habdu, a 24-year-old air steward, were evicted
for making "inappropriate advances" to guests.
The couple filed a criminal complaint against
the hotel for assault and for alleged theft of
belongings. They also plan to complain to
Mexico's national human rights commission,
Reuters said.
Estonia activists fight lawmakers
plans to ban same-sex marriage
An update to Estonia's family law is set to ban
same-sex marriage and block recognition of
same-sex marriages from elsewhere.
Several nongovernmental organizations have
banded together to fight the legislation and to
demand passage of a civil-partnership law for
same-sex couples.
In a letter to government officials, the organi-
zations state, "We demand you ... stop ignoring
the issues and problems of same-sex families and
help to develop a more tolerant and equal socie-
ty, an appropriate society of a member state of the
EU [EuropeanUnion].
"Four to six percent of Estonian society has
sent a clear message of having a strong need for
an institution that would define the partners'
rights and obligations in same-sex families," the
letter said. "Family, it means love, safe home,
socially secured position, common values of
humanity, protection of children and assets —
what kind of country would not want to support
such an initiative?"
Activists elsewhere are asked to join the cam-
paign. Contact Lisette Kampus at lisette@diver-
sity.ee.
Bishop suggests politicians consider martyr-
dom instead of gay marriage
The Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary,
Alberta, has suggested that Catholic politicians
should opt for martyrdom rather than support
things that contradict church doctrine, such as
same-sex marriage, The Globe and Mail reported
Jan. 9.
"Catholic politicians have a duty to be morally
coherent. They cannot live as spiritual schizo-
phrenics," Bishop Fred Henry told the Zenit
Catholic news agency. "All Catholic politicians
would do well to imitate the example of St.
Thomas More, who by his life and death taught
that man cannot be separated from God, nor pol-
itics from morality."
More, chancellor to King Henry VIII, was exe-
cuted in 1535 for refusing to acknowledge the
king, rather than the pope, as head of the English
church.
As the nation debated the issue of gay mariage
in recent years, prime ministers Paul Martin and
Jean Chretien, both Catholics, made clear distinc-
tions between their personal faith and their polit-
ical duty to ensure that all Canadians are treated
equally.
"[This] is about the Charter of Rights," Martin
said in June 2005 after the House of Commons
voted 158 to 133 to legalize same-sex marriage
nationwide. "In a nation of minorities, it is impor-
tant that you don't cherry-pick rights. Aright is a
right."
In 2004, Bishop Henry said Chretien might go
to hell because of his support for gay marriage.
"He's putting at risk his eternal salvation," the
bishop said.
Police investigate Muslim leader
for anti-gay comments made on TV
London police are investigating the head of the
Muslim Council of Britain, Sir Iqbal Sacranie,
for anti-gay comments he made to the BBC.
In a Jan. 3 interview, Sacranie called the
United Kingdom's new same-sex Civil
Partnership Act "harmful."
"It does not augur well in building the very
foundations of society — stability, family rela-
tionships — and it is something we would cer-
tainly not ... encourage the community to be
involved in," he said.
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