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Pope angers campaigners with speech seen as attack on homosexuality	24.12.2008	The Guardian -- World Latest
Gay rights groups and activists yesterday condemned passages in Pope Benedict XVI's end-of-year address in which the pontiff spoke about gender and the important distinction between men and women. Speaking to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration, the pope said that the church viewed the distinction as central to human nature, and "asks that this order, set down by creation, be respected". The church, he said, "should protect man from the destruction of himself". He said a sort of ecology of man was needed, adding: "The tropical forests do deserve our protection; but man, as a creature, does not deserve any less." He attacked what he described as "gender" theories which "lead towards the self-emancipation of man from creation and the ...
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Federation formed to empower transgenders, marginalised women (Cached)	24.12.2008	Hindu: Tamil Nadu
More community clinics to address their problems planned
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Steven Guess: Rick Warren's participation at Obama's inauguration is a welcome sign of nonpartisanship	24.12.2008	The Guardian -- World Latest
Even with a robust majority in Congress, Barack Obama faces many battles ahead to implement his agenda. While gay marriage is an important equal rights issue that Obama must respect as president, the and their supporters over the selection of evangelical pastor to is much ado about nothing. Failed attempts at marginalising Warren will not advance gay rights one inch, and may actually set the stage for more bitter conflict. While in this transition stage appointments and guest speakers seem larger than life, when historians look back at Obama's presidency, this will be less than a footnote in comparison to the real fights to come. It is the calm before the storm, where the only ones fighting are Democrats jockeying for influence. Warren will hold ...
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Stop homosexuality, save world: Pope (Cached)	23.12.2008	Hindustan Times: News
The pope has said that “saving” humanity from homosexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforests, a comment likely to provoke a furious reaction from homosexual groups.
Ian regrets not revealing his sexuality earlier (Cached)	23.12.2008	Asian Age: Delhi
Sir Ian McKellen wishes he had revealed he was gay earlier. The openly homosexual actor, who came out on live radio in 1988 when he was 49 years old, regrets spending nearly half a century being dishonest about his sexuality. He said, "You don't like yourself. It rots you." However, the Lord of the Rings star thinks his illustrious career might have been different had he been open about his sexual preferences from an early age. He said, "I couldn't spend my life being in gay plays." The 69-year-old actor told the world he was gay during a BBC Radio 4 debate with broadcaster Peregrine Worsthorne about Section 28 legislation. The act banned the promotion of homosexuality in British schools. Ian still maintains he was right to ...
Stop homosexuality, save world: Pope (Cached)	23.12.2008	Hindustan Times: World
The pope has said that “saving” humanity from homosexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforests, a comment likely to provoke a furious reaction from homosexual groups.
Pope Benedict XVI's pronouncement on heterosexuality has a whiff of hypocrisy	23.12.2008	The Guardian -- World Latest
The American journalist (and militant atheist) HL Mencken once defined religious puritanism as being motivated by the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy", and there are not a few Catholics – and many lapsed Catholics – who would agree that the maxim also fits the papacy and old-style authoritarian priests with their disapproving fondness for telling their flocks what not to do. As with many papal pronouncements, even if reading between the lines to interpret Benedict XVI's speech as an outright criticism of homosexual behaviour and, less ambiguously, of transsexualism, it is impossible to avoid the strong whiff of institutional hypocrisy: it is not so long ago that Donald Cozzens, a former Catholic seminary principal in the ...
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News quiz: Hot topic - Christmas	23.12.2008	The Guardian -- Front Page
Jenny Percival tests your knowledge of all things festive
Pope urges defence of heterosexuality	23.12.2008	The Guardian -- World Latest
The pope has sparked controversy by saying defending heterosexuality is as important as saving the world's rainforests from destruction. Speaking in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration, Benedict said yesterday the church viewed the distinction between men and women as central to human nature, and "asks that this order, set down by creation, be respected". The church, he said, "should protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," adding: "The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less." Benedict focused his attack on what he described as "gender" theories, "which lead towards the definitive emancipation of man from ...
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MediaGuardian Christmas quiz	22.12.2008	The Guardian -- Front Page
Have you been paying attention to the big stories in the media this year? Test yourself with our festive quiz
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Gay marriages face legal threat (Cached)	22.12.2008	Deccan Herald
Gay marriages face legal threat
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Lanka's decision to shun UN gay rights resolution flayed (Cached)	21.12.2008	DNA: Top News
A gay rights activist has flayed the Sri Lankan government for refusing to sign a "historic UN declaration" that urges member-states to decriminalize homosexuality.
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The Observer profile: Rick Warren, Obama's favourite fundamentalist	21.12.2008	The Guardian -- World Latest
Barack Obama was not running for president or at least not openly, when he chose World Aids Day in 2006 to join in a public embrace with a softly spoken, goatee-bearded evangelical preacher, a man now poised to play one of the briefest, yet most controversial roles at next month's inauguration ceremony in Washington. Even then, the more astute among America's political commentariat were quick to pick up on the potential political significance of this ostensibly odd couple. Here was Obama (black, liberal, a rising star in the Democratic party) being welcomed into the southern California mega-church of Rick Warren (Orange County white, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage and an already risen star among the evangelical Christian movement that was a ...
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Meltdown hits A Passage to India remake (Cached)	21.12.2008	Telegraph: Front Page
London, Dec. 20: India's foremost living authority on English novelist E.M. Forster, former foreign minister Natwar Singh, will be saddened by the news that the independent British television network, ITV, is pulling the plug on its remake of A Passage to India.
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Matters come to a head	21.12.2008	Business Standard: Life & Leisure
The revision of the psychiatrists diagnostic bible is stirring a hornet's nest as usual.
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Suit threatens all gay marriages in California (Cached)	21.12.2008	TOI: The United States
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the US state of California, who won a referendum blocking the unions last month, filed suit to annul thousands of gay marriages conducted in the state this year.
Collector appeals to transgenders to take up self-employment (Cached)	21.12.2008	Hindu: Tamil Nadu
This will help them enhance their socio-economic status
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Geometry of relationships (Cached)	21.12.2008	Hindu: Sunday Magazine
The presentation of sexuality in three recent Bollywood films is a curious but welcome phenomenon.
Obama’s pastor pick irks many (Cached)	20.12.2008	Hindustan Times: News
With his choice of the Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama has found himself enmeshed in a new controversy involving a pastor.
Obama’s pastor pick irks many (Cached)	20.12.2008	Hindustan Times: World
With his choice of the Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama has found himself enmeshed in a new controversy involving a pastor.

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