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China: Country's On Again, Off Again Relationship With Gay Culture

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

STUTTERING improvements for gays in Chinese society have been dealt another setback after the country’s first Mr Gay China contest was shut down by the police on Friday night in Beijing, an hour before it was to begin. It’s the third time in the past six months that openly gay events have been thwarted by authorities. In June, the inaugural Gay Pride festival in Shanghai was forced off the city’s streets and on to private premises, leading to the cancellation of some events.

Last November the opening of a gay bar in the southwestern resort town of Dali was delayed after a wave of publicity across the country put focus on the small venue, making local authorities nervous.

As punters began to arrive on Friday night, and five of the original eight contestants readied themselves for a three-round event at the plush Philippe Starck-designed restaurant and bar complex LAN, police moved in to close down proceedings, saying it was a “sensitive issue” and that the promoters — local group Gayographic — did not have the right permits.

Full Story from The Australian

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Guam Catholic Bishop Says Radical Islam & Suicide Bombers Better Than Gay Marriage

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

From a 3 page statement distributed by the local Catholic Archdiocese on the island of Guam in opposition to Bill 185, which would would allow same-sex couples to enter into legal domestic partnerships:

The culture of homosexuality is a culture of self-absorption because it does not value self-sacrifice. It is a glaring example of what John Paul II has called the culture of death. Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. That is why they repress such behavior by death. Their culture is anything but one of self-absorption. It may be brutal at times, but any culture that is able to produce wave after wave of suicide bombers (women as well as men) is a culture that at least knows how to value self-sacrifice.

Terrorism as a way to oppose the degeneration of the culture is to be rejected completely since such violence is itself another form of degeneracy. One, however, does not have to agree with the gruesome ways that the fundamentalists use to curb the forces that undermine their culture to admit that the Islamic fundamentalist charge that Western Civilization in general and the U.S.A, in particular is the “Great Satan” is not without an element of truth.


Full Story from the Moderate Voice: http://themoderatevoice.com/51019/suicide-bombers-are-better-than-gay-marriage/

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