Ban gays from office says Latvian Cardinal

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saratiddyWed 12/12/07 15:46

A Roman Catholic Cardinal has suggested that gay people should be banned from political office.

Latvia's Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis resigned last week and the Archbishop of Riga Janis Pujats warned new candidates not to support LGBT related issues.

He asked that all candidates running for the post of Prime Minister state whether they intended to "defend the Latvian nation against the invasion of homosexuality in public life.

"Anyone who is not a stern advocate of the people's moral values, must neither run nor be nominated for prime minister," he said, urging candidates to give a public answer on the issue, as he said people were "entitled to it."

During public debates yesterday, all three Prime Ministerial candidates voiced tolerant views about people with different sexual orientations.

In May the controversial Cardinal defined homosexuality "total corruption in the sexual arena" and "an unnatural form of prostitution."

He also called on people to take to the streets of Latvia's capital Riga to oppose the Pride march on June 3rd.

"If there are 1,000 sexually crazy people acting foolishly in the square of Pride, then the people's march in Riga should have at least 40,000 or 50,000," he wrote in a letter.

"That proportion would give the government and public thought enough reason to leave sexual perversion outside the law."

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