...will unite with me briefly in denouncing those eeevil homosexuals. Then we can all get back to blowing each other up in the name of our respective Lords.
International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions.
Now major leaders of the three faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the erroneous impression that homosexuality is acceptable. [...] "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem." - nytimes.com
I have a horrible feeling that Indonesia's tourist industry is going to suffer more from this latest earthquake (last toll I read was about 700 deaths) than from the Boxing Day tsunami. People don't like lightning striking twice, particularly not when scientists are saying there's almost certainly going to be at least one more significant quake in the area because only one of the two faults known to be stressed have shifted.