Half of Croatian Students Say 'Homosexuality Is Illness'

Half of Croatian high school pupils think homosexuality is an illness and two-thirds say gay rights marches should be banned, a poll said Friday.

Some 47 percent of final year school students polled said "homosexuality is illness," the survey done by non-government rights group GONG found.

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More than 64 percent of the 999 respondents in 43 schools said gay pride parades should be banned as they "have a harmful effect on education of young people," the poll showed.

On June 11, a gay pride parade in the coastal town Split was marred by violence when anti-gay protestors pelted marchers with stones and bottles, injuring about a dozen people, four of them journalists.

A week later, another parade was held without incident in the capital Zagreb.

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Croatia's first gay pride parade was held in Zagreb in 2002, with more than a dozen participants beaten up afterwards.

Since then, parades have been held in the capital annually without major incidents, but always under heavy security.

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Croatian society is largely conservative and the influential Roman Catholic Church has publicly branded homosexuality a "handicap" and a "perversion".

Almost 88 percent of the former Yugoslav republic's population of 4.4 million are Roman Catholics.

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Source-AFP