Belgium's Cardinal Leonard may face anti-discrimination charges

BRUSSELS — Belgium's Catholic primate Tuesday faced accusations of homophobia and calls to resign for saying AIDS was justly deserved and elderly child-abusing priests should be spared.

Amid mounting uproar, a lawyer for a gay rights group filed a complaint against Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard in the northern city of Bruges after the church leader described gay love as a travesty of nature and AIDS as "a sort of intrinsic justice."

"I believe the archbishop is violating anti-discrimination law and committing slander," lawyer Jean-Marie De Meester said.

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