Gay Activists Rally for Popes Resignation

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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Peter Tatchell, the head of the U.K.-based gay advocacy group OutRage!, was one of about 50 protesters on Sunday calling for Pope Benedict XVI's resignation outside London's Westminster Cathedral.

The protest was held in response to accusations that Benedict, during the years he served as a cardinal, did not take action against numerous reports of priests molesting children.

Participants in Sunday's protest, including gay and women's rights activists, blasted Benedict, calling him a "protector of pedophile priests" and "an accomplice to sex crimes." They not only demanded the Pope step down, but that he be prosecuted for allowing child abuse.

According to a press release from Tatchell, the protesters were met "with a mixture of jeers and support from Catholic congregants leaving the Cathedral after Palm Sunday mass." Tatchell also wants the papal visit to Britain, scheduled for sometime this year, canceled.

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