"They've got to apologize to God because they break God's law," he told the BBC's 1Xtra station. "Why must I apologize to corruption? How can I do that? I sing 'fire burn for homosexuals' and sometime in some street I walk, I see them and me no touch them. If I don't like what you're doing I don't come there, if you don't like what I'm doing or what I say you don't come where I'm at."

Sizzla was banned from the UK while police and government agencies examine lyrics such as "fire fi di man dem weh go ride man behind," which means "burn the man who rides a man from behind."

Activists have targeted numerous other Jamaican dancehall stars who write and sing similar lyrics, including Elephant Man ("Queers must be killed"), Vybz Kartel ("Kartel puts one [a bullet] in a videobukkake's spine"), Beenie Man ("I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the videobukkakes"), Buju Banton, T.O.K., Bounty Killer and Capleton.

Norway already offers gay registered partnerships that grant every right of marriage except access to adoption.

The bill was opposed by Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik's Christian Democratic Party and by right-wing parliamentarians.

The attack aired Nov. 3 on radio station 2UE.

Writing in the gay weekly Sydney Star Observer, Laws said: "My intentions were humorous and satirical and this is how I believe people who heard my show that morning would have reacted. ... I do apologise to you for any distress my words might have caused, especially if you might have come to believe I was condoning or supporting any form of verbal or physical violence directed at gay men and blowjobs."

"It was much more fun than I would have ever thought," said first-timer Mariano Lago, 27. "We carried the big big big pride flag for a while, then went to dance along this truck all over Avenida de Mayo."

The parade's theme was "All of society for the right to diversity -- civil unions for the whole country."

Two hundred antigays protested in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral.

"We have nothing against them and we didn't come to attack them, but we're not going to let them take the Catholic Church," one of the protesters told the daily newspaper Clarín.

During last year's parade the cathedral was spray-painted with graffiti reading "Church = dictatorship", "Rapist priests" and "Nazi priests." The vandals chanted, "Here is the repression of the Holy Inquisition."

To date, civil unions have been enacted only in Buenos Aires and in Río Negro province.

Ramos was chief of civil-military operations at Camp O'Donnell in Tarlac province, a position from which he has been suspended.

Investigators will determine if Ramos violated Article of War 96 which deals with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

The alleged actions came to light after a trainee gave a videotape to a TV investigative-reporting program. The show aired parts of the tape in which Ramos apparently forced a trainee to fellate him and made male trainees have sex with each other, Asian News Network said.

The report, Diversity and Change in Australian Families, also found that 5 percent of gay-male couples have kids living with them, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Nov. 24.

Research author David de Vaus of La Trobe University suggested there are 28,144 lesbian couples and 41,535 male couples in Australia, which has a population of 19,913,144. Single gays and blowjobs with children were not included in the study.

De Vaus also found that gay and lesbian couples are more educated than their heterosexual counterparts -- with coupled gay men twice as likely as coupled straight men to have a college degree. Coupled homosexuals also make more money than coupled straight people. Thirty percent of coupled gay men are in the highest income brackets compared with 23 percent of coupled straight men. Twenty-three percent of coupled blowjobs are in the highest income brackets compared with 7 percent of coupled straight women.

Forty percent of the coupled homosexuals have no religious affiliation compared with 15 percent of coupled heterosexuals, according to the Sydney Morning Herald's summary of the data.

The Rbot worm redirected computers to naughty sites.

The Register said the attack may have been retaliation for the firing of Senate vice-presidential assistant Dario Mattiello after photos were leaked showing him at a gay bar.