Georgia’s Orthodox Church urges ban on LGBT rights rally

Agence France-Presse – 16/5/13 The head of Georgia’s influential Orthodox Church called Thursday on the authorities to ban a gay rights rally set to be held in the deeply religious country. The call came a day before gay rights activists were to stage a brief demonstration in central Tbilisi to mark the International Day against Homophobia. “Any religious and scientific teaching — except for modern pseudo-science — considers homosexuality to be an anomaly and illness,” Patriarch Ilia II wrote in an open letter to Tbilisi’s mayor