From my snowy little hometown above the artic circle to Sydney Australia.
Yep, I?m moving there!
Hmm.. I have never been on that side of the planet before.. But I might be back after 2weeks if my new job don?t fit me.
Well.. I?m not staying there forever, that?s for sure!

From this to a… surfboard maybe?

I?m getting nervous just thinking about it!
Yieks!

I?ll keep you updated! 😉

The unrepentant sexist bigot of Christianity, Pope John Paul ll, has
launched a campaign to deny gay couples access to marriage rights across
Europe and America. Of course, anyone who has followed Pope John Paul ll’s
reign has seen how clearly sinister his bigotry, sexism, and conservatism
is. It seems that the only people he likes are murderers and fascists,
because he keeps encouraging us to pardon them. His anti-gay hysteria is
truly his ugliest defect, considering the huge number of closeted Catholics
gay men that populate their priesthood and brotherhoods. Why these people,
priests and laity alike, are not resigning in droves over this sinister
bigot’s anti-gay marriage campaign is unbelievable to me, especially the gay
ones. Anyone who knows of any campaigns to stop this force of evil, please
forward them along. ==-=-=- Victory to the Mother Goddess-=-==-=- Nick
P.S. Article below:

VATICAN CITY (July 28) – The Vatican hopes to rally public opposition to gay
marriages in a worldwide campaign spurred by its alarm over growing legal
acceptance of same-sex unions in Europe and North America.

Pope John Paul II has been speaking out for months against legislative
proposals to legalize same-sex marriages. But instructions to be released
this week go a step further by outlining a course of action for politicians
and other lay people to oppose extending the rights accorded to traditional
couples, Vatican officials told The Associated Press.

The document is titled “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal
Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons.” It was prepared by the
church’s guardian of orthodoxy, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, and is to be released Thursday, the officials said.

One official familiar with the document called it a “practical reflection”
for both Catholic and non-Catholic politicians and public opinion in
general.

It asks that the legal recognition accorded the traditional marriages not be
extended to same-sex unions, the official told AP, speaking on condition of
anonymity.

The document prescribes a course of action for politicians and lay
communities and does not involve the clergy, Vatican officials said. It is
expected to detail how the issue should be dealt with in public forums,
including legislatures. The officials did not give provide examples.

The Catholic Church is not the only Christian denomination embroiled in the
debate.

At its national convention, which begins Wednesday in Minneapolis, the
Episcopal Church in the United States will decide whether to permit blessing
ceremonies for same-sex unions and approve the first election of an openly
gay bishop, issues that are sharply dividing that church.

Catholic teaching says homosexuals should not be subjected to “unjust
discrimination,” but it also says gays should be chaste.

In January, the pope approved guidelines on church teachings for Catholic
politicians saying that the church’s opposition to abortion, euthanasia and
same-sex marriage is not up for negotiation.

The guidelines said laws safeguarding marriage between man and woman must be
promoted and urged that “in no way can other forms of cohabitation be
placed on the same level as marriage, nor can they receive legal recognition
as such.”

Legal acceptance is growing, however.

Over the past two years, the Netherlands and Belgium extended marriages
rights to all couples, no matter the partners’ gender.

Two Canadian provinces – Ontario and British Columbia – have legalized
marriages for homosexuals under recent court rulings, a move that has
attracted gays from across the border in the United States.

The Massachusetts supreme court is weighing whether to legalize same-sex
unions.

In reaction, some Republican lawmakers in Washington are calling for a
constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriages nationwide.

Vermont and some European nations, such as Germany, France, Sweden and
Denmark, have “civil union” laws giving same-sex couples the rights and
responsibilities of traditional marriages.

After Germany’s supreme court upheld the law this month, a top German
cardinal condemned the law as a blow to the family.

“Now the associations of homosexuals have a potent arm to obtain further
concessions on the road toward full equality with married couples, including
the right to adoption,” Cardinal Karl Lehman complained in a Vatican Radio
interview.

The Vatican is particularly worried about the waning influence of the church
in Europe. Drafters of a proposed constitution for the European Union
ignored Vatican requests to include explicit mention of Europe’s Christian
roots.

On Sunday, the pope lamented that the church’s message was being watered
down in Europe, decrying the spread of a “vague and little-demanding
religious sentiment, which could become agnosticism and practical atheism.”

Vatican officials said the document – 12 pages long and available in seven
languages – is devoted entirely to the issue of same-sex marriages.

A leading gay activist in Italy, Franco Grillini, who is a member of
parliament, condemned the Vatican’s position as “another intrusion into a
country’s affairs.”

He charged that the Vatican operated with a particularly heavy hand in Italy
and several other predominantly Catholic countries in Europe, depriving gays
of rights guaranteed elsewhere.

In the United States, the church sometimes criticizes Catholic politicians
whose views clash with the faith’s teachings. The Archdiocese of Santa Fe,
for instance, ventured into the New Mexico gubernatorial campaign last year,
circulating fliers about the candidates’ stands on abortion. Among those
criticized for supporting the right to abortion was Democrat Bill
Richardson, who won the election.

Life seems so easy when you?re a cat..

SOUTHMOOR, England – A body found in the Oxfordshire woods added a dark twist Friday to questions about the intelligence Prime Minister Tony Blair used to justify war in Iraq.

Police tentatively identified the dead man as David Kelly, a Defense Ministry expert suspected of being the source of media claims that the government hyped its reports on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

Called before Parliament for an inquiry, Kelly, a former U.N. weapons inspector between 1991 and 1998, denied being the source.

Kelly’s wife reportedly said he was stressed and “very, very angry” about being caught up in a public controversy. Comments by politicians and friends of Kelly on TV news broadcasts suggested the pressure of the case and the inquiry might have led to his death. No one has suggested foul play.

Police refused to speculate on the cause of death. Inspector Peter Shepherd of the Thames Valley Police said only, “We are still looking into the circumstances.”

Janice Kelly reported her husband missing Thursday night when he failed to return from an afternoon walk. The body was found Friday morning on the edge of a clump of woods within a mile of Kelly’s home in the village of Southmoor, 20 miles southwest of Oxford.

As the prime minister flew to Tokyo to begin an Asian tour, his office said there would be an independent inquiry if the dead man is positively identified as Kelly.

Opposition Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith urged Blair to return to London. “There are very many questions that will need to be asked over the coming days,” Duncan Smith said.

Kelly’s apparent death was a sensational development in a scandal threatening the government’s credibility.

The big issue is whether the prime minister misled the country about Iraq’s weapons. The drama also includes a highly personal feud between Blair’s communications chief and a journalist from one of the world’s most prestigious news organizations.

The furor started with a May 29 report by the British Broadcasting Corp. that an unidentified intelligence source had said a government file on Iraq was “sexed up” to make a more convincing case for military action.

Quoting an unidentified intelligence source, BBC defense correspondent Andrew Gilligan said the government had ignored experts’ doubts in claiming Iraq could deploy some chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.

Gilligan later said his source had accused Blair’s communications chief, Alastair Campbell, of insisting the claim be included.

Campbell denied that in testimony to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Kelly told the committee that he had met Gilligan, but did not think he was the source of the BBC report.

Asked if he believed Campbell had interfered in drafting the dossier, Kelly responded: “I do not believe that at all.”

Kelly, a soft-spoken, gray-haired scientist with a white beard and eyeglasses, was grilled in a nationally televised committee session during which he was pressed to give the names of other journalists he had met.

Andrew Mackinlay, a legislator from Blair’s Labor Party, asked Kelly if he was “chaff,” thrown up by the Defense Ministry to divert attention.

“Have you ever felt like the fall guy? You have been set up, haven’t you?”

Kelly replied, “I accept the process that is happening.”

The BBC refused to bow to government pressure to reveal its source. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon – Kelly’s boss – said the weapons adviser had come forward to say he had had an unauthorized meeting with the BBC reporter and had not mentioned Campbell.

The BBC has not denied that, but did say that its source did not work for the Ministry of Defense.

Kelly, 59, was reported missing late Thursday, some eight hours after he failed to come home.

“What we can say is that the description of the man found there matches the description of Dr. David Kelly,” said acting Superintendent Dave Purnell of Thames Valley police.

An Oxford-educated microbiologist, Kelly has been the senior adviser to the Proliferation and Arms Control Secretariat in the Ministry of Defense for more than three years.

He was in Baghdad briefly in June where he met with troops involved in the weapons hunt. And he was scheduled to return to Baghdad and take up a post with the Iraq Survey Group, a Pentagon-led effort taking over the search for suspected weapons of mass destruction.

According to friends who spoke on condition of anonymity, Kelly feared the recent allegations would hurt his position with the survey group.

Television journalist Tom Mangold said Kelly had been a source for many reporters, because he was eager to help them understand a complex topic.

Mangold also said he spoke Friday with Janice Kelly, who said her husband had been upset.

“She didn’t use the word depressed, but she said he was very, very stressed and unhappy about what had happened,” Mangold said.

Several police stood guard Friday afternoon outside Kelly’s neat brick and brownstone home, which sits across the street from an old-fashioned country pub and next to an open field.