God and gays
SYDNEY: About 50 homosexual Catholics intend testing Church protocol on Sunday when they line up to take communion from an archbishop who refused them the sacrament last year. Thegroup of gay men and women and their families and supporters said they would wear rainbow sashes at St Patrick's cathedral proclaiming their sexuality as a "sacred gift." Archbishop George Pell refused last year to give communion to three gay men, one of them a Catholic priest, because of their homosexuality. ``This is an act of prayer, not just a protest. We will come forward reverently, but refusing to be invisible any longer,'' group spokesman Michael Kelly said. Conveners of the group have written letters for gay clergy to "come out".

Cindy weds
NASSAU (BAHAMAS): Supermodel Cindy Crawford married her longtime friend Rande Gerber in the Bahamas, the Nassau Tribune newspaper reported today. ``It's the wedding,'' a security guard told a news photographer whom he stopped on Saturday from walking down Cabbage beach on Paradise Island, off Nassau. The guard said they had government permission to fence off the usually public beach in front of the exclusive ocean club resort, where Cindy usedto visit with her former husband, movie star Richard Gere. News leaked out Saturday night that Cindy was not only in the Bahamas but that she married her longtime friend Rande,'' the Tribune said.