A court in Britain has convicted a homosexual rights campaigner of indecent behaviour for staging a protest in a church.

Peter Tatchell was fined eighteen pounds and sixty pence about twenty-five dollarsfor interrupting a sermon bythe Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, by climbing into the pulpit to protest against the Archbishop's attitude towards homosexuals.

Mr Tatchell was charged under a rarely used law dating from 1860 which regards protests in church as indecent behaviour.