Joseph Doucé (April 13, 1945 – ) was born to a rural family in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. He was a

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and a (defrocked) Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay and was among the founders of the

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. He served as a volunteer soldier in the NATO base at

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, France, where he had time to perfect his French. After one year of pastoral and humanistic studies at Stenonius College (also known as Europaseminär, a Roman Catholic seminary today extinct) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conversion to Protestantism around 1966. His ''Centre du Christ Libérateur'' was a ministry to sexual minorities. The center had support groups for homosexuals, transsexuals, sadomasochists and

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Doucé was killed and the

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has never been solved. According to Doucé's lover, he was taken away by two men, who showed police badges on July 19, 1990. The body was found in a forest in October 1990. The killers are thought by some to be a unit of the

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, Renseignements Généraux, who investigated Doucé because of his support for pedophiles.

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