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>"Xena" Protested by NZ Hindus
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>NewsPlanet, March 2, 1999
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>Hindu groups in several different nations called for the latest
>edition of "Xena: Warrior Princess" (produced in New Zealand) to be
>kept off the air, perceiving it to show Lord Krishna "helping Xena
>save her lesbian lover." (In fact the relationship between Xena and
>Gabriel, while primary for both and enjoyed by many lesbian fans, is
>deliberately kept rather ambiguous and basically non-sexual.) A
>spokesperson for the U.S.-based World Vaishnava Association, Tusta
>Krishnadas, said, "It treats Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of
>Godhead, speaker of the scripture Bhagavadgita, as fictional. It makes
>it appear that Lord Krishna and Vedic religion approves of and gives
>its blessing to homosexual relationships, which is completely false."