Valentine's Day-----Does it put a smile on your face?

ORF radio reported at the weekend that a priest at St. Stephen's Cathedral, in the heart of the Austrian capital, would say a Mass on the traditional day for lovers and bless all couples, married or not, straight or gay.

"All who want God's blessing for their relationship are welcome," it quoted Rev. Toni Faber as saying.

Or maybe not. The Catholic Church rejects homosexual sex as a sin and sex outside marriage is forbidden. Dispensing Catholic blessings for gay couples in one of Europe's great cathedrals would be an act of rebellion against the Vatican.

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"This will not be a Mass, but only a service with blessings afterwards for all lovers, whether they are married or engaged," Faber told Catholic news agency Kath.net to clarify himself.

Individual gays could get a blessing, he said, but stressed that their union would not get the Church's approval. "To avoid any misunderstandings, we should stress the difference between blessing couples and blessing individuals," he said.

Austria's Catholic bishops drew up new guidelines for St. Valentine's Day blessings last year that made way for individual blessings but said nothing about homosexuals.

Indian gays stay in the closet on Valentine's Day 
AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
As young Indian couples indulge in western-style Valentine's Day celebrations, same-sex couples here remain closeted in a country where gay love is not only taboo, but also illegal.

Lithuanian website bars same-sex Valentine's Day kisses 
AFP via Yahoo! News - Feb 14 9:51 AM
A Lithuanian ombudsman is to probe an Internet site for discrimination after users complained that they could not send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to a friend of the same sex.

"We received two complaints that an Internet site, in its 'friends' section, offers to send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to the friend, but only if the they are of the opposite sex," Valentinas Dambrava of the ombudsman's office told AFP.

"We are going to launch an investigation for sexual discrimination, although some Lithuanians may find this unusual," Dambrava added.

If the site -- www.one.lt -- is found to have discriminated, it could be fined up to 2,000 litas (579 euros, 690 dollars).

About 66 percent of Lithuanians celebrate Valentine's Day, according to a poll conducted by the TNS Gallup company.

Among 15- to 29-year-olds who responded to the survey, 90 percent said the holiday was "important" or "very important."

The day was celebrated mainly by city dwellers, the poll showed, with about 40 percent of people who live in Lithuania's rural areas saying they never mark Valentine's Day, or were not even aware that it existed.

PSYCHIATRISTS CAUTION AGAINST SUICIDES AFTER ST. VALENTINE'S DAY 
Central News Agency - Feb 14 4:40 AM
Kaohsiung, Feb. 14 (CNA) St. Valentine's Day might be a sweet and romantic occasion for many lovers, but doctors at a southern Taiwan hospital cautioned Tuesday that the day's celebrations might be followed by a wave of suicides.

Does Valentine's Day bring a smile to your face?
If it does then you're obviously straight.
The world doesn't give a damn about love.  They only give a flying rats ass about the love between a man and a woman.
If you're a man, and you love a man----they say fuck you.
If you're a woman and you love a woman---they say fuck you.

To all of those sweet little people that think homosexuals and bisexuals are gross and nasty and wrong:
FUCK YOU TOO!
Love is love. No matter what color or race.
But you have to put a limit on it.  You can't love a man if you're a man.  You can't love a woman if you're a woman.
Damnit, what is wrong with you people?
Love is love, you damned idiots!

Hey, sweethearts, everyone who comes to my sight....
Copy and past everything above the devider line and post it onto your xanga, myspace, livejournal, and websites.
Pass on the message.  Let people know that discriminatining homosexual love is wrong.
And on Valentine's Day of all days.


Mukana rakkaus ja partaterä,
Valhe