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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 29 (UPI)

A Canadian man in British Columbia is challenging the 1987 U.S. law banning people with HIV from entering the United States.

Martin Rooney was fingerprinted at the Washington state border and told to return home to Surrey in November after he told an immigration official he was on disability because of HIV, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported.

The United States is one of 13 countries, including China, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, that ban HIV-positive visitors and immigrants.

HIV is the only medical condition singled out as a basis for inadmissibility under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, told the newspaper the restriction was ridiculous in an e-mail.

“This law was written when little was known about the disease and destructive stigmas often won the day,” Kerry wrote. “With new knowledge about the disease, we must make it clear that this discriminatory, Draconian law will no longer be tolerated.”

Kerry attached an amendment to the global AIDS relief bill to end the practice. It was approved this month by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and still faces a full Senate vote before going to the House, he said.

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WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI)

The head of the U.S. agency in charge of AIDS research says scientists need to go back to basics to find a vaccine against the HIV virus.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the agency will re-evaluate the use of the $1.5 billion it spends on AIDS research, The New York Times reported Wednesday. He said more basic laboratory research is needed to understand the way the body and experimental vaccines respond to HIV.

“There is not an immediate solution to the problem,” Fauci told the newspaper at a summit Tuesday in Bethesda, Md., to discuss fallout from last year’s failure of the most promising candidate for an HIV vaccine.

Fauci rejected the AIDS Health Care Foundation’s call for the suspension of money for HIV vaccine research in favor of increased AIDS prevention efforts. “Under no circumstances will we stop AIDS vaccine research,” he said.

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SACRAMENTO, March 26 (UPI)

A California Assembly committee passed a measure making it illegal to post images of minors on Web sites that contain obscene material without their consent.

The measure, which includes punishments including a year in county jail, was approved Tuesday by the Public Safety Committee and could come before the full Assembly next month.

The Orange County Register said the bill was introduced after it was discovered that scores of photos of high-school water polo players from around Southern California were being displayed on homosexual porn Web sites.

Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, who sponsored the bill, told the Register that aside from the psychological effect, the images often included indications of what school the young men attended.

“It is easy to find them and poses a serious threat to the athlete as well,” Smyth said.

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CONCORD, N.H., March 25 (UPI)

Gene Robinson, the would-be “simple country bishop” of New Hampshire, can count on attention when he travels to Britain for a worldwide Anglican gathering.

Robinson hasn’t been invited to the Lambeth Conference, which brings together bishops from all over the world every 10 years, but plans to be outside, talking to anyone he can reach. His consecration as the church’s first openly gay bishop has threatened to split both the Episcopal Church in the United States and the worldwide Anglican Communion.

“One of the things I think I’ve learned in the last five years is that, as much as I wanted to be known as the good bishop, and not the gay bishop, there’s no escaping,” Robinson told the Boston Globe. “I would love just to be a simple country bishop but that just doesn’t seem to be in the cards.”

Robinson has a book coming out next month. In June, he and Mark Andrew, who has been his partner for 20 years, said they plan to commit to each other in a civil union.

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HAMILTON, Ontario, March 21 (UPI)

A Canadian judge has deferred ruling on property rights for three breakaway Ontario Anglican parishes, allowing them to celebrate Easter, Toronto media said.

Justice Jane Milanetti ruled in Hamilton, Ontario, she couldn’t make an immediate decision Thursday on the dispute between the Anglican Diocese of Niagara and the congregations in Oakville, Lowville and St. Catharines.

Earlier this year, the three groups voted to join with the conservative South American Province of the Southern Cone Anglican division in protest of the Canadian church’s decision to support same-sex marriages.

The Anglican Diocese of Niagara sought to have cost of the churches’ upkeep split until the question of final ownership was settled, although sources told The Toronto Star that could take as long as a decade.

Prior to the hearing, local church officials had made alternate arrangements to celebrate Christianity’s holiest weekend at an old schoolhouse and movie theater, the report said.

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ELIZABETH, N.J., March 20 (UPI) — A New Jersey judge refused Thursday to throw out a claim that former Gov. Jim McGreevey defrauded his wife by marrying her when he knew he was gay.

Union County Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy dismissed another claim, of emotional distress, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Cassidy found that McGreevey did not intend to harm Dina Matos McGreevey when he married her.

“This case does not rise to the level of infliction of emotional distress,” Cassidy said. “McGreevey was not out to destroy her emotionally. There was no intent to hurt the defendant.”

The McGreevey marital breakup has been under way for well over three years, starting when the governor announced his sexual orientation and his resignation at a news conference in 2004. Matos McGreevey contends that her husband deceived her because he needed a wife as political cover.

Cassidy sealed all records involving the couple’s daughter, Jacqueline, earlier in the week.

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