1.   Homosexual intercourse so far has played only a minor role in the spread of HIV here.

2.   The Congress recently gave illegitimate children full legal rights and struck down a law that made male homosexual intercourse illegal.

3.   The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee late Wednesday approved a bill that would repeal the law banning homosexual intercourse.

4.   The laws in question make homosexual intercourse illegal, and the punishments vary from territory to territory.

5.   The Torah condemns male homosexual intercourse, but Reform Judaism now supports same-sex civil unions and a decade ago approved openly gay rabbis.