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Lebanon's acting Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat Saturday denied charges by conservative Muslim clerics that the government had approved a gay rights group as well as nudist beaches at two resorts. "Contrary to what has been alleged in sermons in the mosques, we have authorized neither the Helem.

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