Homeland Security surveillance detected on Christian website

Blogger noted for opposing homosexual lifestyle choice

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun watching a blog posted by a Christian who was forced to flee Brazil because of the conflict between that nation's pro-homosexual "hate crimes" agenda and his advocacy for traditional marriage.

Exactly why the U.S. government, which several times has linked Christians and conservatives with terrorism, is watching Julio Severo's unabashedly Christian Last Days Watchman blog isn't clear.

A WND request to the DHS for comment did not generate a response.

The website's records reveal the DHS visited the site yesterday. A different computer, also at the DHS, was on the site again today.

WND reported in 2009, shortly after Obama took office, that a Department of Homeland Security report warned of the possibility of violence by unnamed "right-wing extremists" – people concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty. The report pointed to returning war veterans as particular threats.

The visit yesterday was revealed in a website tracking report:

The visit today was documented in another report:

Severo was profiled earlier on WND when as a prominent pro-family activist in Brazil, he was forced into exile because of the "hate crimes" laws in his land.

Several prominent Christian leaders in America at the time warned that similar crackdowns could be coming in the U.S. because of the federal "hate crimes" bill signed by Obama shortly after he took office.

That law enhances penalties based on the thoughts of the person suspected of committing a crime.

Pastor Rick Scarborough of Vision America Action and Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel voiced their opposition to the law at the time. While there has not yet been a large-scale crackdown on pastors who preach against homosexuality, there are indicators that such developments could be in the offing.

Obama's lifting of the ban on homosexuals in the military, for example, has raised questions about the status of  military chaplains who teach a biblical perspective of homosexuality.

At the time of his exile, Severo told WND that while Brazil does not criminalize Christianity, it regulates what biblical principles can and cannot be preached, and it bans biblical citations that disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle.

"Brazil grants freedom to preach Christianity, provided that the sermons avoid negative mentions of state-protected behaviors and cultural trends," Severo said at the time. "The Brazilian government is establishing more and more categories of protected behaviors, banning negative mentions. So Brazilian preachers need to get updated on the latest political changes and preach a Gospel according to the state interests."

He cited an example of Brazil's restrictions.

"In Rio, a Pentecostal minister led a criminal to Jesus and convinced him to deliver himself to police. Rev. Isaías da Silva Andrade accompanied the former criminal to police and when they asked how his life had been changed, the minister answered that the former criminal lived under the influence of demons from Afro-Brazilian religions which inspired him to criminal conduct, but now he found salvation in Jesus. Because of this innocent account, Rev. Andrade is now being prosecuted for discrimination against the Afro-Brazilian 'culture'! If condemned, he will serve between two and five years in jail," Severo said.

Severo said his friends warned him that authorities were trying to find him, and so he took matters into his own hands.

"I was forced to leave the country with my family: a wife in the advanced stages of pregnancy and two little children," he reported on his blog. "We are now in a place that is completely foreign to us. What choice did we have?"

Julio Severo

Severo today told WND through a relatively secure communications method that he remains in an undisclosed location because "even though I am away from Brazil, the largest gay group is Brazil, ABGLT, is after me, even asking their other gay groups to help them to find me where I am."

He explained ABGLT, which had filed complaints of "homophobia" against him with the Brazilian government, recently was helped by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be accredited in the United Nations, extending its global influence.

He said he previously has found visits on his website from the federal police in Brazil.

"It is like the FBI in the U.S..," he told WND.

He said he monitors his websites periodically and then occasionally does a visitor-by-visitor review of who is reading his writings.

"A few times that I have examined [them] one by one, I was able to find federal law enforcement agencies as my visitors," he said.

He said it appears DHS was searching for some combination of "Christian," "U.S." and "Brazil" terms.

"I think all Christian leaders should be worried at a U.S. agency created in response to Islamic terror is after a Christian leader," he told WND. "Why not Islamic leaders?"

He said on his blog after he found the DHS visits, "Obviously, LDW has no terrorist or Islamic connection. It is conservative Christian – which is reason enough to be labeled 'terrorist' by leftist and anti-Christian activists. And such is the Obama administration."

"I do not know how much time they spent in my blog, because this specific data was missing in the official record. Nevertheless, perhaps because of some security failure, relevant information was exposed, especially on where and who was 'visiting' my blog," he wrote. "It seems that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is searching for a Christian leader (from the United States? from Brazil?), who fled. But, searching for him in my blog?"

He said the purpose of his site is to make English-speaking readers aware of what is happening in Brazil, "particularly on the persecution on Christians."

"If they are keeping surveillance on Christian leaders, it’s time for us to watch and pray!" he said.

Barack Obama

The U.S. administration has made clear in a number of cases that it is concerned about conservatives as a potential danger and even has argued in court that it wants the authority to track American citizens in order to develop "probable cause" needed for search warrants.

That argument is being made before the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute over whether police investigators and other authorities should be allowed to track American citizens who have not done anything that would ordinarily prompted a judge to issue a search warrant.

"The court of appeals' decision, which will require law enforcement officers to obtain a warrant before placing a GPS device on a vehicle if the device will be used for a 'prolonged' time period, has created uncertainty surrounding the use of an important law enforcement tool," said the government's brief in the case, U.S.A. v. Antoine Jones.

"Although in some investigations the government could establish probable cause and obtain a warrant before using a GPS device, federal law enforcement agencies frequently use tracking devices early in investigations, before suspicions have ripened into probable cause. The court of appeals' decision prevents law enforcement officers from using GPS devices in an effort to gather information to establish probable cause."

In the case, agents put a tracking device on Jones' vehicle, and he later was charged and convicted of drug offenses based on information obtained from the tracking device. His conviction was overturned, however, when an appeals court panel argued the information was obtained without a warrant.

The government asked the high court to review whether the warrantless use of a tracking device to monitor the vehicle's movements on public streets violated the Fourth Amendment.

But civil rights experts at the law firm of William J. Olson of Vienna, Va., and Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation of Ramona, Calif., are arguing in a friend-of-the-court brief that while the Supreme Court needs to review the case, the goal should be to protect Americans' Bill of Rights-assured protections against unreasonable search and seizure, not expand government's ability to monitor its citizens.

While the Obama administration is asking for a determination about the warrantless use of tracking units, the Supreme Court wants briefs that also address the issue of whether the government violates the Fourth Amendment even by installing such a unit.

A poll released earlier showed the WND Freedom Index, an assessment of Americans' perspectives about their freedoms, took a plunge in the latest quarter, to 45.9 – its lowest mark in the two years the survey has been conducted.

Among the questions used to assemble the ranking – where 50 is a reflection of a neutral perspective about freedoms – was, "Do you believe that government today is using technology, such as cameras, scanners, electronic health records, to become too intrusive into the private matters of Americans."

Some 75 percent of the respondents said there is a problem. Nearly 38 percent of Americans said they perceive "great intrusion" and another 14.5 percent said there is "substantial intrusion." Another 22.8 percent said there is "some intrusion."

The federal government's determination that people innocent of crimes are worthy of being watched already is documented.

The 2009 DHS report, "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," said "threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts."

But it said worsening economic woes, potential new legislative restrictions on firearms and "the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks."

The report from the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis defined right-wing extremism in the U.S. as "divided into those groups, movements and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups) and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."

It followed by only weeks a report from the Missouri Information Analysis Center that linked conservative groups to domestic terrorism.

The Missouri report warned law enforcement agencies to watch for suspicious individuals who may have bumper stickers for third-party political candidates such as Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. It further warned law enforcement to watch out for individuals with "radical" ideologies based on Christian views, such as opposing illegal immigration, abortion and federal taxes.

Portuguese version of this article: WND, importante site dos EUA, faz reportagem sobre blog inglês de Julio Severo

Spanish version of this article: WND, importante sitio web en USA, hace reportaje sobre el blog inglés de Julio Severo

German version of this article: Überwachung durch U.S.-Heimatschutzministerium auf christlicher Webseite entdeckt

Source: WND, through Last Days Watchman, the English blog of Julio Severo

Other interesting articles:

The power of a single blogger and his faith: the story of Julio Severo and his fight against anti-“homophobia” bills

Media terrorism

Would you believe genocide against homosexuals?

Prominent Pro-Family Activist Julio Severo Flees Brazil to Escape Charges of “Homophobia”

Where All This Persecution is Heading

GCM Watch interviews Julio Severo

WorldNetDaily publishes interview with Julio Severo

Julio Severo says in WND: ‘How hate crimes laws forced me into exile’

Luiz Mott, the Top Homosexual Leader in Brazil and One of the Founders of ABGLT, Posts Home Addresses of Julio Severo and Other Pro-Family Activists

Luiz Mott Under Investigation for Pedophilia

ABGLT Files “Hate” Charges Against Julio Severo and Other Brazilian Christians

UN Approves ABGLT, a Brazilian Homosexualist Group, Yet Drops Christian Charity

In Defense of Marriage: When Rights Trump Freedom

Department of Homeland Security: newest Last Days Watchman visitor

By Julio Severo

The US Department of Homeland Security, created by the US government in response to the September 11 Islamic attacks, was caught visiting Last Days Watchman (LDW), my English blog.

US Department of Homeland Security visiting the English blog of Julio Severo

Obviously, LDW has no terrorist or Islamic connection. It is conservative Christian — which is a reason enough to be labeled “terrorist” by leftist and anti-Christian activists. And such is the Obama administration.

What does the US Department of Homeland Security want? To protect America from LDW?

I do not know how much time they spent in my blog, because this specific data was missing in the official record. Nevertheless, perhaps because of some security failure, relevant information was exposed, especially on where and who was “visiting” my blog.

It seems that the US Department of Homeland Security is searching for a Christian leader (from the United States? from Brazil?), who fled. But, searching for him in my blog?

I like visitors, because Last Days Watchman is intended to make English-speaking readers aware about what is happening in Brazil. It is my effort to let the world know information that often is unavailable in English, particularly on persecution of Christians.

So if the US Department of Homeland Security wants to search for terrorists, they should visit Islamic websites.

If they want to help persecuted Christians, my blog is a good starting point.

But if they are keeping surveillance on Christian leaders, it’s time for us to watch and pray!

Source: Julio Severo in English

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Other interesting articles:

Would you believe genocide against homosexuals?

Prominent Pro-Family Activist Julio Severo Flees Brazil to Escape Charges of “Homophobia”

Where All This Persecution is Heading

GCM Watch interviews Julio Severo

WorldNetDaily publishes interview with Julio Severo

WND: ‘How hate crimes laws forced me into exile’

Media terrorism

Media treats Islam as a “religion of peace”, but it treats a Darwinist terrorist as if he were a Christian conservative. Meanwhile, the ruling Workers’ Party in Brazil wants to make compulsory Islamic teaching in the schools.

By Julio Severo

Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik proclaimed openly the supremacy of Charles Darwin’s “science” over the Bible. Darwin didn’t recognize God as the origin of the human life, but instead he attributed it to amoebas and monkeys. That “science” was the base of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, political and ideological systems hostile to Christianity.

Yet, in response to the terrorist act of a fundamentalist Darwinist, the leftist press took advantage of the opportunity to commit a big terrorist attack: to say that the Norwegian was a conservative Christian. And why not to accept this lie?

That is the same press that idolizes Darwin’s theories as “science”, putting Breivik much closer to the secularism in the media than to conservative Christians, who have always despised Darwin, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.

But what if the Norwegian were really a conservative Christian? What would the media make?

Since the systematic and frequent Islamic terrorist attacks against the West, the answer of the Western media is to repeat tediously: “Islam is a religion of peace”. No Islamic attack or monstrosity, regardless how deadly it is, diverts the media from its preaching about the religion of Mohammed as real peace dove on the earth.

Week after week Islamists commit terror acts. And week after week, the media repeats its mantra of “religion of peace”.

Recently, Brazil suffered a massacre of boys and girls by a clearly Islamic terrorist, but the press hastily protected and covered the “religion of peace”.

And to guarantee that Brazil may be in tune with the liberal media interests, the Workers’ Party introduced in the Brazilian Congress bill PL 1780/2011 to make compulsory in the schools the teaching of the “Arab culture and the Islamic tradition”. Workers’ Party intends to “fight intolerance and prejudice” against the “religion of peace”. The Brazilian bill may be downloaded in a Portuguese PDF file here.

There is no inconsistency in the Brazilian Workers’ Party, which follows the conveniences of the National Socialist Workers’ Party, also known as Nazism, which had an alliance with Muslim Arabs.

If the followers of Islam were not responsible for thousands of attacks and if the terrorists were in fact followers of Darwin, it would be correct to teach at the schools that Muslims are not the authors of the thousands of terrorist acts happening today. Even so, it would not be possible to call it a “religion of peace”, because thousands of Christians are persecuted and murdered in Islamic countries.

Similarly, it would be incorrect to say that Darwinism doesn’t have any connection with atrocities in the mankind. As well as Islam, Darwinism doesn’t have peaceful fruits. Soviet and Nazi leadership and Breivik loved the “science” of Darwin in the same way that a Christian loves Jesus Christ. Are their fruits equal to the fruits of Christians?

At school, when a teacher explained the man’s origin using Darwin’s “science”, I asked for permission to object, and I read for the classroom the first chapter of the book of Genesis. Then, the teacher answered that the man’s creation by God was theory. I am sure that Nazis, Soviet commies and Breivik would also have opposed my stand. But that is the eternal incompatibility between to follow Darwin and to follow God.

If Breivik were really a conservative Christian and the media didn’t really have any grudges against conservative Christians, journalists would follow the same logic that they apply to Islam: They would present conservative Christianity systematically as a “religion of peace”. And the Workers’ Party would introduce a bill to make compulsory in the schools the teaching of Christian conservatism, to “fight intolerance and prejudice” against conservative Christians.

As a conservative Christian, I would have to move fast if I were in that island of Norway seeing a terrorist slaughtering teens. And, of course, I would need a defense weapon, which would be the only resource against an armed criminal. The Norwegian police delayed exactly an hour and a half to respond to the first phone call for help. With such an absurd delay, any terrorist would have had enough time to commit whatever massacre he wanted.

That episode also destroys the disarmament fallacy, because if there were in the island armed men ready to make a defense (as it is common in Switzerland), the Darwinist terrorist would not have had freedom and time of killing so many teens.

As conservative Christian, I oppose totally the Darwinist that murdered those teens. And I oppose Islamic terrorists. I have also to oppose the biased press, which protects Islamic terrorism and hold conservative Christians responsible for the crimes of a fundamentalist Darwinist.

The Bible, which is above Darwin’s “science”, doesn’t lie when it says that the world is under the authority of the evil one. That authority is visible in the press, which never holds Islam responsible for Islamic terrorist attacks, but it takes advantage of any lie to blame conservative Christians for crimes that they have never committed, from murders of gay male prostitutes at dawns in dangerous downtown areas to the massacre committed by Anders Behring Breivik.

It is not "intolerance and prejudice" to hold Islam responsible for what many of its followers do. But it is real intolerance and prejudice to hold conservative Christians responsible for a massacre by a follower of Darwin’s theories. It is also real defamation and incitement to hate.

It is impossible to destroy a cultural or religious group without firstly defaming it systematically. The mass murder of Jews in Nazi Germany was only possible after years of defamations by the press, which attributed any crime to Jews.

With the help from a press that lies shamelessly, the Workers’ Party now is ready to teach Islam in the Brazilian schools and how to fight intolerance and prejudice against the “religion of peace”, as if Brazil were not suffering enough allurement from Islam. Islam will now join Darwinism as a compulsory school discipline.

And there is no doubt that, as far as it depends on its malice, the press will make all attempt to fight not Darwinism — which so much murderous radicalism has provoked in the mankind —, but conservative Christianity, which is its main target and victim.

Portuguese version of this article: Terrorismo de imprensa

Source: Julio Severo in English

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Man who slaughtered school kids in Rio was nicknamed “Bin Laden,” wanted to fly an airplane into Rio’s Christ the Redeemer

Terrorist proclaimed himself ‘Darwinian,’ not ‘Christian’

The terror of evil and sin: the tragedy in Norway

Brazilian judge approves first same-sex ‘marriage’

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

SÃO PAULO, June 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A Brazilian judge approved the conversion of a same-sex couple’s civil union into a legally recognized “marriage” on June 27th, making it the country’s first homosexual “marriage.”

Sao Paulo state Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto said he based his ruling on a Supreme Court decision in May that approved civil unions, as well as on Brazil’s Constitution - which outlines how a civil union can be upgraded to a marriage - and a UN resolution against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The homosexual couple, identified on Globo television network as Sergio Kauffman Sousa and Luiz Andre Moresi, registered their civil union on May 17, and requested the conversion at a state court in the city of Jacarei, 85 km. northeast of Sao Paulo.

It is not clear what wider implications Judge Pinto’s decision will have. Although Judge Pinto’s ruling can be overturned by a higher court, the homosexual couple told Globo TV that they would go to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Source: www.LifeSiteNews

via, Julio Severo in English:

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Brazilian judge declares Supreme Tribunal decision favoring civil unions ‘unconsitutional’

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent

GOIÁS, Brazil, June 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A Brazilian judge has nullified the civil union of two homosexuals in the state of Goias, and has declared that a recent decision by the nation’s Supreme Federal Tribunal legalizing the practice is “unconstitutional.”

Jeronymo Pedro Villas Boas, a municipal judge, says the nation’s highest court “went beyond the limits” of its authority when it recently decreed that homosexuals have a right to civil unions, directly contradicting the Brazilian Constitution.  He called the decision “illegitimate and unconstitutional” and ordered the couple’s union struck from the registry.

Boas’ decision has enraged homosexualist activists and at least one Tribunal judge, Luis Fux, who called it “an attack on the decision of the Supreme Tribunal, which can be appealed,” and warned that complaints in such matters “are taken to disciplinary organs so that the autonomy [of a judge] does not harm the people.”

However, Boas says that he does not seek to attack the Supreme Tribunal, but “only to follow the Constitution.” He notes that homosexual unions “do not exist in the constitutional system of Brazil.”

The decision of the Supreme Federal Tribunal to decide in favor of permitting homosexual civil unions, which was issued in early May, contradicts the explicit wording of the nation’s constitution, which limits such unions to heterosexual couples.

Article 226 of the Constitution states that “for effects of state protection, a stable union is recognized between a man and a woman as a family entity, requiring the law to to facilitate its implementation.”

Previous LifeSiteNews coverage:

Brazil supreme court defies Constitution, grants homosexual civil unions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/brazil-supreme-court-defies-constitution-grants-homosexual-civil-union/

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

Julio Severo in English:

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Following outcry, Brazilian president cancels homosexual indoctrination kit in nation’s schools

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

BRAZIL, May 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has agreed to eliminate a very explicit United Nations approved kit designed to convince children and adolescents to accept homosexual behavior and transsexualism, following threats from Protestant and Catholic legislators to block new legislation in protest.

The “anti-homophobia kit,” which was part of the “Schools without Homophobia” sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, included videos showing a cartoon of a child masturbating while fantasizing about sex with a man, adolescents who enter into homosexual relationships, and a “transsexual” student who calls himself “Bianca.”

In the original video, the “Bianca” character reportedly becomes sexually aroused at the sight of another male student urinating in the bathroom, although this scene was apparently removed later, along with an another image showing two girls kissing on the lips.  The program also supplied students with games, toys, and musical lyrics, all designed to normalize homosexuality and other sexual deviations.  Despite the minor modifications made to the materials, they have continued to spark outrage from parents and pro-family activists.

Under massive pressure from a high-profile Internet campaign and from legislators, Rousseff capitulated, and one congressional ally reported that she regarded the kit as “horrific” and “the end of the world.”

“I’m not in agreement with the kit, because I don’t think that it defends non-homophobic practices,” Rousseff said publicly. “I didn’t watch the videos, but I saw part of one of them on television and I don’t agree with it.”

“We cannot interfere with the private lives of people,” Rousseff continued. “There will not be authorization for this type of policy of defending A, B, C, or D. However, the government can teach that it is necessary to respect differences and that you can’t use violence against those who are different from you.”

Before retracting the materials, the government had boasted of the approval it had received for the kit from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which had judged the videos “suitable” for the target audience, which is reported to reach children as young as 11 years of age.

“The material of the Schools without Homophobia project is suitable for the age groups and the affective-cognitive development for which it is targeted,” UNESCO wrote, according to a Brazilian government website.

The cancellation of the kit, which has caused controversy in Brazil for over half a year, has made headlines across the country.  Revelations that the government has spent over a million of dollars of public money on the kit have also added fuel to the fire.

The removal of the kit represents another major blow against the socialist government’s long-standing anti-life and anti-family policies.

The Brazilian Labor Party, led by the popular presidents Luiz Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, his handpicked successor, have consistently advocated the decriminalization of abortion and policies that would punish those who speak out against homosexuality. However, Rousseff found her presidential aspirations threatened last year when pro-family forces emphasized her party’s record on human life and family issues, forcing her to sign an agreement not to promote her party’s agenda.

Public opinion polls, as well as polls of congressional representatives, have also indicated a strengthening of the pro-life and pro-family positions in the Brazilian electorate.

Although Roussef has been careful to indicate her rejection of the kit, her Women’s Policies minister has taken a more defiant tone.

“The program for confronting homophobia is a definitive program. It will not suffer setbacks. The government of President Dilma [Rouseff] is committed to the issue of rights. The president has demonstrated that in all of her acts,” said chief minister Iriny Lopes.

Rousseff’s education minister Fernando Haddad promised to return to the schools with new materials in a matter of months, after a further consultation with “specialists.” The kit reportedly will be reformulated by the same homosexualist non-governmental organizations that created the current program.

Julio Severo, one of Brazil’s most influential pro-family activists, is warning that the administration will continue to push the homosexual agenda, and urges Catholics and Evangelical Protestants to continue fighting.

“Whether or not Dilma has retreated, the Catholic and Evangelical leadership should not retreat,” writes Severo, adding that “above all, it is necessary to unmask and combat the campaign that, in the name of fighting against ‘homophobia’ is combating the Christian majority of Brazil and the mothers and father who want to protect their children form every type of immoral assault.”

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Source: www.LifeSiteNews.com

Divulgation: Julio Severo in English:

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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Sex education material with gay contents suspended by Brazilian president

Brazilian president suspends distribution of 'anti-homophobia kit'

Brazilian president suspends distribution of 'anti-homophobia kit'

The president of Brazil has decided to suspend the distribution of a controversial “anti-homophobia kit” to public school students after protests from evangelical and Catholic congressional representatives.

The kit included a video featuring a 14-year-old boy named Ricardo who “falls in love” with a fellow student when he sees him urinating in the school restroom. The same boy is shown later receiving call from his teacher and telling her he wants to be called “Bianca” now instead of Ricardo.

The video also shows two 13-year-old girls announcing their lesbian relationship to the entire class with the kiss.

The kit was created by the country's Ministry of Education and cost $2 million to produce.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff recalled the kit after concluding that a video included in the materials was “inappropriate.”

Gilberto de Carvalho, a official in the Rousseff administration, said the president’s decision did not mean a shift in her pro-homosexual agenda. “This is a consultation process the government is undertaking, as it does in other areas as well, because this is part of the democratic process,” he said.

The administration “has decided that from now on any material that deals with social mores will be created with broader consultation,” Carvalho added.

Family expert Julio Severo said, “Despite the fact that Dilma (Rousseff) suspended the distribution of the gay kit, the federal government’s campaign against ‘homophobia’ will continue as normal in schools, as Carvalho said.”

Severo emphasized that whether or not Rousseff flip-flops on her policies, “Catholic and evangelical leaders should not.”

“We need to unmask and combat the campaigns that, in the name of the struggle against ‘homophobia,’ are combating the Christian majority of Brazil and mothers and fathers who wish to protect their children” from all types of immorality.

Source: EWTN News

Divulgation: Julio Severo in English:

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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Sex education material with gay contents suspended by Brazilian president

Sex education material with gay contents suspended by Brazilian president

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has suspended the distribution and production of gay sex education films for schools in Brazil.

By Julio Severo

The education packs, which contain gay and lesbian video scenes, supposedly aim to combat homophobia.

Government spokesman Gilberto Carvalho said President Rousseff viewed the material personally and found the footage unsuitable for youngsters.

“She didn’t like what she saw,” Carvalho said. So she decided to suspend its distribution.

However, her reaction came after evangelical and Catholic parliamentarians and their allies in the Brazilian Congress threatened to block any upcoming legislation unless President Rousseff halted the films. They also threatened to support investigative commissions on the minister of Education, his Ministry and another powerful minister, who has been exposed for corruption.

Carvalho said President Rousseff was not, however, discontinuing anti-“homophobia” programs in the public schools.

The “gay kits”, as they are known in Brazil, were produced for the Brazilian Ministry of Education by ABGLT, the largest homosexualist group in Brazil, which received more than one million dollars in government grants to make them. ECOS, another (US-funded) Brazilian NGO that helped make them, also received more than one million dollars. The exposing of this multi-million dollar partnership in a recent Brazilian television news program produced a scandal that rocked the government plan to distribute “gay kit” to all the Brazilian schools.

Matthew Hoffman, in a LifeSiteNews report, said the kits, aimed at “children between the ages of 7 and 12 years, were designed to encourage acceptance of homosexuality. The kits reportedly include a DVD with a story about a fourteen-year-old who goes to the bathroom, and becomes sexually aroused while watching another student urinate in the stall next to him”.

Several members of the Brazilian Congress said the sex education packs encourage homosexual behavior. Even Reinaldo Azevedo, a prominent Catholic social columnist favoring gay “marriage” and child adoption by gays, said that “the gay kit aims to promote sexual harassment against heterosexual children”.

In response, ABGLT has launched a fierce campaign to defend its kits, calling its opposers “homophobic”.

With information from BBC and LifeSiteNews.

Source: Julio Severo in English:

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

More information on ABGLT, the NGO that made the gay kit:

ABGLT Files “Hate” Charges Against Julio Severo and Other Brazilian Christians

ABGLT is denounced in the US media for persecution against Julio Severo and other Brazilian Christians

ABGLT Launches Multiple Lawsuits to Silence Christian Opposition

ABGLT ask reforms in the children’s “rights” in Brazil

ABGLT is favored by former Brazilian President Lula

With the assistance of Hillary Clinton, UN Approves ABGLT, Drops Christian Charity

Prophetic blogging

Blogs as tools to express the voice of God’s Kingdom

By Julio Severo

A few days ago I received a message from a visitor who recently became acquainted with my blog:

Julio, how are you?

Last Tuesday (26/April/2011) I was having a nap at lunch time and a name came to me in a dream. I am not in the habit of writing down my dreams, but the name was very clear. I woke up and wrote down the name: JULIO SEVERO.

I had never heard your name before and when I got home I googled it and saw that you are also a Christian and that you fight to preserve Gospel principles from corruption.

Well, I do not believe in coincidences…

I do not believe in coincidences either, at least not this kind.

In my interview with Christianismo Hoje* (the Brazilian version of the magazine Christiany Today) I said,

Early in 1995 I clearly felt God directing me to write a book about the threat posed by the homosexual movement. For weeks, I hesitated, because the homosexual issue was a formidable taboo. There were no gay parades in Brazil, and none of the homosexual obsession we see everywhere today, in the schools, the media, etc. After some time, I overcame my fears, accepted the calling of the Spirit, and began to research the homosexual movement. When, by mid-1995, the first international conference of ILGA in the South Hemisphere was held in Brazil, I understood God’s plan to call me into the battle, because after the conference, Brazilian gay groups made an extraordinary push to advance their agenda. God anticipated this spiritual assault from hell with an action of the agenda of God’s Kingdom. Thus my book “O Movimento Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), was born and was published by Editora Betânia, the Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers, in1998.

When my book “O Movimento Homossexual” was published in 1998, many thought it was an exaggeration and said that forecasts would never come true. Sadly, they eventually did. And today its readers call me a prophet. The exaggerater of yesterday is today’s prophet.

In 1999, on receiving an autographed copy of my book “O Movimento Homossexual,” Bishop Robson Rodovalho said that he had received the revelation that in the future I would be severely persecuted because of the message of my book, and be forced to flee from place to place. It was an accurate prophecy, but I am sad that the one who delivered it eventually joined the political system that spawned PLC 122 and other absurdities. PLC 122 is the most threatening anti-“homophobia” bill in the Brazilian Congress.

In 2002, even without a blog, I began to warn against an electoral victory for socialist Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. In 2003, with just a page of articles in the Brazilian Christian website JesusSite, I revealed to Brazil for the first time that the Lula administration had introduced in the United Nations (UN) a resolution classifying homosexuality as an inalienable human right. This was the first time this kind of initiative had come before the UN.

After I reported on this, a Representative in the Brazilian Congress requested an accounting from the Brazilian government because Brazilian representatives at the UN were taking actions without the knowledge of the Brazilian people and Congress. There was also a petition against the Lula administration’s resolution. JesusSite suffered an attack by hackers and went down. Despite many threats it received pressuring the Christian website to remove my articles, JesusSite* stayed firm.

The pioneering resolution from the Lula administration in the UN never advanced, and ILGA, the largest homosexual organization in the world, complained that grass-roots resistance in Brazil stemming from “extremist” websites was helping to deter the resolution. Who said that today there are no little Davids to hinder massive Goliaths?

With the Lula administration’s obsessive pro-sodomy policies, the message of my book, which had been seen as exaggerated, was now coming into focus. Even congressmen were making references to my book in their official speeches in the Congress.

At the inspired insistence of a brother in the Mid-Night Call Ministry, I eventually created a blog at the beginning of 2005, with this brother guiding me in the first steps. The first year, I published very little.

Only later did I begin issung warnings to Brazil more regularly. And God honored me. At the same time, philosopher and Reformed theologian Harold O. J. Brown invited me to write the leading article in his academic periodical The Religion & Society Report. The essay was published in August 2006 and is available in an online version. This was the first time my watch dog ministry was acknowledged by a respectable international publication.

Through my blog, my still small voice was now showing the United States and the world the homosexualist face of Lula and his socialist ideology. Brown told me he did not realize that Lula was so radical, and he wanted to help people outside Brazil learn the truth.

In 2007, I was interviewed by LifeSiteNews, the largest Catholic pro-life news website in the world. It was my small voice echoing with immutable values that transcend frontiers.

Yet, as far as the performance of my simple blog is concerned, the most remarkable aspect in 2007 was the awareness effort against PLC 122, the anti-“homophobia” bill introduced by a member of PT (Lula’s party) in the Brazilian Congress. The bill sought to give government the power to exercise out and out thought control and would have criminalized any speech construed as “antigay.” It amounted to nothing less than a direct ban on biblical Christianity. In February 2007, a group of influential conservative Catholics contacted me to launch an awareness effort. They had read my writings on homosexuality, prepared a paper based on my articles and wanted me just to put my signature in it. Their role would be to spread the message. My role would be to lend my name.

The campaign made great strides. After March 2007, the awareness movement grew like wildfire and was soon unstoppable, having struck the consciences of many people. But there was a price to pay. The same year the campaign was launched, gay activists, in their effort to thwart me, managed to convince Google in Brazil to shut down my blog. With the intervention of Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, in an article in the paper Jornal do Brasil denouncing attacks against me, and protests from several lawyers, including an attorney who called Google, my blog came back online.  

Before February 2007, I had already intended to oppose PLC 122. Yet, in the months of November and December 2006 and January 2007, I was hiding in a refuge with my family, because of persecution.

Before this persecution, God had used a former homosexual to warn me that the devil was trying to destroy me. November happened to be the month that PLC 122 was approved in the House of Representatives in Brazil. Lacking the means to act, I dunned Dr. Zenóbio Fonseca for several weeks to write an article against the anti-“homophobia” bill, because his special legal knowledge was vital. His consulting work allowed him little time, but eventually he managed to write the article. Next, the Catholic message* to mobilize Brazilians was ready, and it was sent to countless thousands of email addresses and other media.

The sequel was that hundreds of blogs, not to mention thousands of people forwarding e-mails against PLC 122, became such a strong chain that the passage of this bill, which was taken for granted because of the influential and imposing support of government and media, eventually became uncertain, because of the resistance, particularly from Evangelical and Catholic blogs.

Catholic and Evangelical magazines — with a shallow Christianity and deep-rooted political ideologies — either ignored the story or gave it short shrift. Had it been up to them, Brazil would today be in thrall to the Kingdom of the Workers’ Party, of Dilma Rousseff and her antecessor Lula, with the passage of PLC 122 hovering like a sword over the heads of prophetic Christians.

Yet, blogs speaking with the voice of God’s Kingdom are having a major impact in opposing the massive power of magazines, papers and TV channels that mirror — and are paid to mirror — the voice representing the ideology and system of state idolatry.

And unlike evangelical TV shows, which ignore or fail to denounce the government’s promotion of aberrations like PLC 122, pro-family blogs are not afraid to speak out against state threats.

The strong resistance to PLC 122 today is a symbol of what can happen when humble little blogs serve as a vehicle for the voice of God’s Kingdom. If one blog makes a lot of people uncomfortable, a host of blogs united in the same effort much more effectively spread the uncomfortable truth that shakes people into action.

In the wilderness of disinformation from magazines, newspapers and blogs that reflect the voice of the political machine and its ideology, God can lead, even through dreams, those who need to know the truth.

This is the value God gives blogs that carry His voice.

Do you want be used by God through a blog? Hear and mirror His voice.

Reviewed by Don Hank.

* These are Portuguese links. Links without an asterisk are English links.

Portuguese version of this article: Blogagem profética

Spanish version of this article: Blogging profético

Source: Julio Severo in English

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Other articles by Julio Severo:

Why I am not a socialist