From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/topless-femen-protest-andre-jozef-leonard_n_3146609.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20Voices
04/24/2013
Topless activists of the protest movement FEMEN took aim at the
Catholic Church on Tuesday, drenching Belgian archbishop André-Jozef
Léonard during a lecture in Brussels, Belgium.
Four FEMEN members entered an auditorium at the ULB university in the
Belgian capital, holding signs that said "Stop Homophobia" and "Anus
Dei Is Coming." Flemish newspaper De Standaard reports that Léonard was giving a lecture on blasphemy and freedom of speech when the bare-chested protesters poured water over his head.
"This was aimed against Mr. Léonard's homophobia, but we also don't agree with other positions, like the one on abortion," one of the activists told news agency BELGA.
In an interview with Le Soir at the end of March,
Léonard had said that gays should spend their lives celibate. The
archbishop defined homosexuality as "a given that people find in
themselves and whose origins remain somewhat mysterious."
On its French Facebook page,
FEMEN said "if André Léonard has decided to inflict the punishment of
abstinence and celibacy upon himself, Femen does not tolerate that he
wants to impose that chastity on the gay community as the only remedy to
what he defines as a disease."
The Belgian confederation of bishops strongly condemned FEMEN's actions, but said it will not press charges against the group.
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