Ribbons are tied onto a fence as a protest at St Mary's Cathedral, in Sydney, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating outside St. Mary's Cathedral during Australian Cardinal George Pell's Sydney funeral Wednesday. Australian police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating outside the funeral of Cardinal George Pell in Sydney on Thursday due to public safety concerns.
The New South Wales Police Force said on Tuesday it has rejected an application from Sydney-based gay rights group Community Action for Rainbow Rights for a permit to protest outside the cathedral on Thursday due to safety concerns. Pell was an outspoken and polarizing figure throughout his church career and remains divisive in his native Australia in death.
As archbishop of Melbourne and later archbishop of Sydney, Pell repeatedly refused to give Communion to gay activists wearing rainbow-coloured sashes.
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