Monday, September 19, 2011

Gay activists get LifeSiteNews translator and pro-family activist Julio Severo cut off by PayPal

Gay activists get LifeSiteNews translator and pro-family activist Julio Severo cut off by PayPal

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September 19, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Under pressure from homosexual activists, PayPal has decided to deny service to famed Brazilian pro-life and pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo.
In additon, at least two Christian organizations targeted by the same activists remain under investigation by PayPal and may also lose use of the service.
Severo, an Evangelical essayist who also translates for LifeSiteNews, maintains a highly influential blog in Portuguese that is read and commented on by politicians in Brazil’s federal government.  He is also the author of several books, including a work on the homosexual movement in Brazil. (See his blog in Portuguese here and his blog in English here.)
Severo’s use of PayPal has been targeted in recent weeks by the homosexual group “All Out,” which has created an online petition to urge PayPal to dump Severo and nine other PayPal users as purveyors of “hate” and “extremism.” Severo’s site expresses love of homosexuals and a concern that homosexual behavior is destructive to those who participate in it.
Following the initiation of the campaign, Severo and several others on the list have been contacted by PayPal, asking for information on their organizations and implying that they are not in compliance with PayPal policies.
Following Severo’s response noting that he is not an organization, only an individual, PayPal responded today stating, “We appreciate your interest in PayPal. However, due to legal and regulatory constraints, PayPal Private Limited is unable to process donation payments for non-registered charities and non-profit organizations (NPOs); political party/organizations; religious institutions; personal/organizational fundraisers, etc in countries under its jurisdiction.”
“This is not a decision we make lightly, and we deeply regret any inconvenience or frustration this matter may cause you,” PayPal adds.  “Please understand that this decision is final.”
The organization adds that it will not permit Severo to access any funds remaining in the account for 180 days, after which it will inform him of how to recover them.
Homosexual militants have sought to silence Severo for years, and the elimination of his PayPal account is the third major success scored in their campaign.
In 2009 Severo was forced to flee Brazil with his family after police launched an investigation of him for criticizing the behavior of homosexuals during their marches.  Criticism of homosexual behavior is restricted in Brazil.
Homosexuals also managed to remove Severo’s blog from Blogger for a short period of time in 2008, after complaining about its content. However, following a massive outcry from Brazilian Christians, his site was restored.
“I am very worried, because PayPal caved in to gay militants and their hate campaign to have me excluded from PayPal,” Severo told LifeSiteNews.
“I use PayPal to pay for essential services for me and my family. And we are in a very limited situation, because we are away from Brazil because of gay and government persecution. Our resources are limited,” he added. “And now under pressure of my persecutors, PayPal is making sure that my ways to receive donations may be even more limited and hard.
“Millions of individuals use PayPal to receive money. Why cannot I receive too?” Severo asks and points out that “I am not a charity. I am only a Christian individual with a wife and four little children.”
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) (http://aftah.org), who is also under investigation by PayPal, said that PayPal’s actions indicate an “open season on Christians” by homosexual activists.
“It is appalling if not shocking that PayPal dropped Brazilian pro-family hero Julio Severo, using some bureaucratic pretense,” LaBarbera told LifeSiteNews. “Apparently it’s now open season on Christians in the corporate world.”
“Julio has a highly effective blog - that’s why he became a target of the Homosexual Lobby. The Left can’t answer his ideas, so they target his funding. By dropping Julio days after the launch of All Out’s “gay” propaganda campaign, PayPal joins the ranks of anti-Christian companies who have taken sides in the Culture War—against committed believers.”
Contact information:
To sign a petition against the persecution of pro-family Christians targeted in PayPal campaign, click here.
Call PayPal at:
1-402-935-2050 (USA)
4:00 AM PST to 10:00 PM Pacific Time Monday through Friday
6:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM Pacific Time Saturday and Sunday
Email PayPal by clicking here and selecting “Email Us”. Non-account-holders can select the option to the right and will be given a form to fill out.
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Online ‘hate’ campaign targets Christian sites

Online ‘hate’ campaign targets Christian sites

Homosexual critics of biblical view of family trigger PayPal ‘investigation’'

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND
A formal investigation of several Christian organizations has been launched by PayPal, the huge money-transfer company, because of an online campaign of “hate” against them by homosexuals, according to one of the targets.
Both websites are unabashedly Christian, and both advocate the biblical perspective of homosexuality.
The demands from PayPal came in the form of a questionnaire that required the site operators to explain the PayPal button on their site and “the purpose … of collecting these donations.”
PayPal, which returned a WND request for comment on the “hate” campaign against the Christian organizations but said it did not have a statement prepared, also wanted to know how PayPal would be used as a payment provider and whether the organization has “registered” tax-exempt status.
Severo explained to PayPal that his Christian ministry, through his Portuguese, English, Spanish and German blogs, aims to “inform people about controversial issues, including euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, etc.”
“I noticed that your message came to me after a hate campaign against me and other Christian ministries,” he told PayPal, citing the AllOut.org website.
That online campaign criticizes “anti-LGBT extremists” who are using PayPal to raise money for “their dangerous cause.”
It specifically puts bull’s-eyes on Severo and LaBarbera as well as Abiding Truth Ministries, New Generation Ministries, Noua Dreapta of Romania, Truth in Action Ministries, Dove World Outreach, Faith Word Baptist Church, Family Research Institute and American Society for the Defense of Traditional Family.
AllOut alleges those groups promote “hate.”
But Severo insisted exactly the opposite is true.
“I want you to know that we Christians love homosexuals, but we disagree with their immoral lifestyles,” he told PayPal.
A response to Severo from PayPal noted, “We appreciate your information. Your account has been noted accordingly. We will investigate your account and give you response as soon as possible. Your patience on this case is highly appreciated.”
Severo said AllOut also is working on Facebook, Twitter and through emails to pressure PayPal to censor his religious beliefs.
“Differently from gay activists that receive huge government grants, I receive no government money,” Severo said.
“I spend much time preparing and writing articles to post in my blogs. My blogs and their messages are my voluntary contributions and my personal sacrifice to help inform you. Pray against gay campaigns aimed at isolating financially me and my family. If they are successfully, we as a family … will not be able to survive.”
He told PayPal, “I will be waiting your answer, and also a public answer regarding the hate campaign aimed at me. All the accusations of this hate campaign against me are false. I have never, as a Christian, preached any violence against other people. I can present hundreds of witnesses that will confirm what I am saying.”
LifeSiteNews.com already has created an online petition in support of the Christian websites and ministries that says, “I protest the attack by homosexual organizations on Christian activists Julio Severo, Americans for Truth About Homosexualty (AFTAH), and Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP). I encourage PayPal to affirm the right of pro-family organizations to use its service and to reject attacks on the Christian faith and other religions that uphold sexual morality and defend family values.”
According to LaBarbera, the issue is that homosexual activists no longer are willing merely to pursue their own lifestyle; they now are demanding that people with biblical perspectives with which they disagree be shut down.
“They want dominance even if it means smearing pro-family people as ‘haters’ and destroying our cherished religious freedoms,” he said.
WND reported earlier when Severo reported his website had been under surveillance by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
WND also reported when a similar series of attacks were generated against online ministries and groups that discuss the danger of Islam.
PayPal reportedly cut off several accounts because of concerns about their message of truth about Islam, then restored them a short time later.
Popular activist, author and blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, who has also helped found the Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America, reported getting intimidating letters from PayPal that claimed the websites “promote hate” and “racial intolerance.”
According to Geller, PayPal sent her letters explaining the websites had violated the company’s policy, which bans use of PayPal for items that “promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime.”
In order to comply, Geller reported, she was required to remove PayPal as a payment option from her websites, as well as all references to the company, its logo and shopping-cart features.
She later reported an executive with the company called and explained the decision was in error and that financial services to the websites could resume.
WND also reported when the Charitable Give Back Group, formerly known as the Christian Values Network, said activists were working online to gather signatures and scare customers away because of the Christian message.
Portuguese version of this article: Campanha de “ódio” online mira sites cristãos
Source: WND, through Last Days Watchman, the English blog of Julio Severo
Other interesting articles:

Friday, September 16, 2011

PayPal launches investigation of pro-family groups following homosexual complaints

PayPal launches investigation of pro-family groups following homosexual complaints

September 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — PayPal is conducting an investigation of several pro-family organizations and individuals targeted by a homosexual campaign that accuses the groups of “hate” and “extremism,” LifeSiteNews has learned.
The inquiry launched by PayPal comes in apparent response to a campaign by the homosexual group All Out (http://allout.org/en/actions/paypal), which is asking that PayPal eliminate ten organizations from its service, including LifeSiteNews translator and pro-family blogger Julio Severo, the Catholic activist group Tradition, Family, and Property, and Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH).
“We are writing to you in regards to your PayPal Account,” the company states in one of the emails, which have been sent to at least three of the groups on the All Out list so far. PayPal then claims that the organization in question is a “business” and needs “pre-approval” to use PayPal.
“PayPal appreciates that you have chosen us to accept payments for your business.  Upon periodic review,  your account was found to have been conducting as a business requiring pre-approval.  PayPal has the policy that some businesses to register for approval before operating on our system or disallows some businesses from using PayPal as a payment processor for some types of services.  Please see “PayPal Acceptable Use Policy”  under “Legal Agreements”  for more information.”
PayPal then asks several questions of the recipient.
“We noticed that there is a donation button on your website which linked to your PayPal account.  Can you just explain the purpose of you collecting these donations?”
“Explain how PayPal will be used as your payment provider.”
“Has your organization registered as a non-profit charity/tax exempt organization with the state or federal government,  or another applicable regulatory body?”
When the homosexual news agency Pink News asked PayPal about the All Out campaign and PayPal’s funding of the organizations, the company responded that “While we can’t comment on any specific accounts because of customer confidentiality, we regularly review organisations and websites that use our service, and stop working with those that break our Acceptable Use Policy. We also enable people to report suspected breaches of this policy on our website.”
Two of the targets of the All Out campaign, Julio Severo of the blog Last Days Watchman and Peter LaBarbera of AFTAH (http://aftah.org) said that homosexual groups are engaging in the “bullying” of which they accuse others.
“The Washington-based Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest gay groups in the world, was revealed in a website tracking report as visiting my blog on August 23, 2011. And now, American gay activists want PayPal to cancel my account, effectively keeping me from receiving donations,” said Severo.
“I have been living away from Brazil with a wife and four children and, differently from gay groups, we are dependent on donations. Gay groups receive large government grants and funds. And they receive massive international financial support from the United Nations and powerful foundations. There is no comparison between them and their multimillion-dollar resources and the donations I receive.”
“I use my resources to support my family. I receive no government money to write Christian texts. If they make a campaign to eliminate donations to me, I will not be able to support my family. Is this not scary?”
LaBarbera noted that “in roughly 60 years homosexuality has gone from being a taboo perversion to a powerful force that punishes those who disagree with same-sex behavior—especially Christians. This latest internet campaign to bully PayPal into dropping AFTAH and other pro-family organizations perfectly illustrates the folly of ‘gay tolerance.’ Tired (or incapable) of debating their opponents civilly, homosexual militants are now using raw, web-based power to squelch the Judeo-Christian voice of sexual sanity.
“Right now we urgently need anyone who opposes the current homo-fascism to contact PayPal and urge them not to cave in to Gay Lobby pressure. Our very future as a free society depends on stopping this new, politically correct tyranny,” he added.
Contact information:
Sign the petition to PayPal to protest against persecution of Pro-Family Christians (http://profamilyfreedom.net)
Call PayPal at:
1-402-935-2050 (USA)
4:00 AM PST to 10:00 PM Pacific Time Monday through Friday
6:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM Pacific Time Saturday and Sunday
Email PayPal by clicking here and selecting “Email Us”. Non-account-holders can select the option to the right and will be given a form to fill out.
Source: LifeSiteNews, via Last Days Watchman
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Homosexuals seek to cut off PayPal accounts of pro-family organizations

Homosexuals seek to cut off PayPal accounts of pro-family organizations

To sign a petition urging Paypal to keep the accounts of the pro-family groups, click here.
September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Homosexual activists are pressuring PayPal to cut off the accounts of pro-family Christian organizations that oppose the homosexual political agenda and uphold sexual morality, and PayPal is showing signs that it may capitulate to their demands.
The homosexual organization behind the effort, All Out, claims that such organizations as Tradition, Family, and Property, and Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), as well as pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo, promote “hate, violence, and intolerance” and are “extremist.”
The two organizations are mainstream pro-family, Christian groups that reject hatred of homosexuals but uphold traditional sexual morality and oppose legal privileges for homosexuals.  Julio Severo, who is also a LifeSiteNews.com translator, is recognized widely in Brazil as one of the country’s most prominent pro-life and pro-family activists; he teaches love of homosexuals while opposing the gay political agenda.
The petition is aimed at the three groups, along with the extremist Dove World Outreach Ministries, which provoked riots in Islamic countries recently when it threatened to burn the Koran, in an apparent attempt to imply a similarity between the groups.
“Thanks to PayPal, its (sic) easier than ever to send and receive money across currencies and continents - but it is also PayPal’s responsibility to make sure this technology doesn’t fall in the wrong hands. Anti-LGBT extremists all over the world are currently using PayPal to fundraise for their dangerous cause,” writes All Out.
“Not only is it against PayPal’s rules to promote promote ‘hate, violence, [and] racial intolerance,’ hate groups also damage PayPal’s brand and credibility. We ask that PayPal join the fight against online hate and immediately shut down the accounts of anti-LGBT extremist groups using the service.”
All Out says that is has collected almost 35,000 signatures on its online petition.
According to the European homosexual news service PinkNews, PayPal has responded by stating, “We take very seriously any cases where a user has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person’s sexual orientation.”
Although it adds, “we also take into account the rights of free speech and freedom of religion,” PayPal reportedly goes on to note, “we regularly review organisations and websites that use our service, and stop working with those that break our Acceptable Use Policy.”
LifeSiteNews.com has created its own online petition at the website ProFamilyFreedom.net, which states: “I protest the attack by homosexual organizations on Christian activists Julio Severo, Americans for Truth About Homosexualty (AFTAH), and Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP). I encourage PayPal to affirm the right of pro-family organizations to use its service and to reject attacks on the Christian faith and other religions that uphold sexual morality and defend family values.”
Sign the petition at ProFamilyFreedom.net
Source: LifeSiteNews, via Last Days Watchman:
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Friday, September 09, 2011

International homosexual campaign against Julio Severo and other Christians

International homosexual campaign against Julio Severo and other Christians

With an English, Portuguese, Spanish and French Petition, US gay activists intend to gather 25,000 signatures to make PayPal to refuse donations for Julio Severo and other Christians fighting gay agenda

By Julio Severo
US homosexual group AllOut has undertaken a campaign, by Facebook, Twitter, e-mails and websites, aimed at pressuring PayPal to eliminate the PayPal account of Julio Severo, Family Research Institute, Peter LaBarbera and others.
In their campaign, which was initiated this week, AllOut said,
13,913 People support this campaign. Help us get to 25,000
Thanks to PayPal, its easier than ever to send and receive money across currencies and continents - but it is also PayPal's responsibility to make sure this technology doesn't fall in the wrong hands. Anti-LGBT extremists all over the world are currently using PayPal to fundraise for their dangerous cause.
Not only is it against PayPal's rules to promote promote "hate, violence, [and] racial intolerance," hate groups also damage PayPal's brand and credibility. We ask that PayPal join the fight against online hate and immediately shut down the accounts of anti-LGBT extremist groups using the service.
Ten Extremist Sites Served by PayPal
Abiding Truth Ministries (International) Extremist group that makes the outrageous claim that “the Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic homosexuals.”
New Generation Ministries (Latvia/International) Extremist church based in Latvia with branches in 15 different countries. The church's members have been tied to the homophobic murder of Satendar Singh. In one video, at an anti-LGBT rally, church leader Alexy Ledyaev says, “homosexuals are not happy or spiritual people, because they were molested and abused in their childhoods, but that does not give them the right to abuse and rape others!”
Noua Dreaptă (Romania/Balkans) Ultra-nationalist group that has been linked to organizing demonstrations and planning violent attacks on Pride celebrations in Romania and Moldova.
Truth in Action Ministries (formally Coral Ridge) (United States) Extremist church that spreads anti-LGBT lies such as “bible-believing Christians would quickly find themselves unwelcome in Barney Frank’s new pansexual, cross-dressing military.”
Dove World Outreach Ministries (United States) Infamous "Burn the Quran" hate church whose pastor preaches that “homosexuality makes God throw up.”
Julio Severo's Last Days Watchman Site (US/Brazil) Brazilian anti-LGBT leader and writer/ideologue who fled Brazil after LGBT activists brought a lawsuit against him for incitement of hatred. Julio regularly repeats the lie that 10% of gay people are pedophiles, and goes further to say that most gay men “drink urine, swallow feces and experience rectal traumas on a regular basis”, while they are “drunk, stoned or in orgies.”
Faithful Word Baptist Church (United States) This church's Pastor Steven L. Anderson has described gays as “sodomites” who “recruit through rape” and “recruit through molestation.”
Family Research Institute (United States) Known for saying that gay people are predatory and diseased perverts who victimize children.
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (United States) This groups claims homosexuality is a “lethal behavior addiction,” a “dangerous” practice that is “neither normal nor benign.”
American Society for the Defense of Tradition Family and Property (International) International Catholic extremist group originating in Brazil and with active branches in Argentina and the United States. They are known for organizing homophobic rallies all over the United States and buying advertising asking people to “join the Crusade” of “conscientious resistance” to “the homosexual ‘moral revolution.’”
Differently from gay activists that receive huge government grants, I receive no government penny. Besides, they have many wealthy foundations supporting them. But there is no organization supporting me. What I receive is used to support my family, with our four little children. But if gay activists, who do not have a natural family whom to support, need resources, what about me?
Of course, in the case of homosexual militants, their money in fact does come from government, because no government has its own money. Their money comes from you. It comes from your pocket. Government takes away (steals through wicked tax laws) your money to deliver it to activists. So, whether we like or not, we are forced to contribute for the homosexual movement. Government forces its people to support gay parades and the homosexual indoctrination of school children.
Yet, thank God my blog is not a part of this exploiters’ network that lives at the expense of a population that is plundered through taxes.
I spend much time preparing and writing articles to post in my blogs. My blogs and their messages are my voluntary contributions and my personal sacrifice to help inform you.
If you wish to support this work spiritually, pray for the author and his efforts to write and spread informative articles. Pray against gay campaigns aimed at isolating financially me and my family. If they are successfully, we as a family — who were forced to live in other nations because of insane laws and gay threats — will not be able to survive. Therefore, pray. Prayer is always the most important assistance.
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

Perpetuating political and spiritual parasitism

Perpetuating political and spiritual parasitism

By Julio Severo
Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo has reported, in a 30 August article, that the US government is interested in Bolsa Família, a populist family-fund program from the Brazilian government that provides cash to millions of Brazilians. Russlynn Ali, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, said that her country is also interested in the Statute of Racial Equality in Brazil.
What could America, or more specifically Obama and his party, gain through Bolsa Família? Bolsa Família is a political strategy from the Socialist Workers’ Party, of Lula and Dilma Rousseff offering no real solution for the problem of poverty, but encouraging the poor to see an administration under Lula, Rousseff and others of their party comrades as a big generous father. Bolsa Família assures the perpetuation of their socialist parasitism on the Brazilian State.
Now, why would the US want to import the Statute of Racial Equality? It is not a policy native from Brazil. In fact, such racial (or pro-homosexuality, or feminist) policies were largely imported from the US. But differently from the US, where they were faced with opposition, racial laws in Brazil had an almost unopposed development and have resulted in a stunning government persecution of Christians who dare question, even — in private communication —, the supposed virtues of witchcraft, voodoo and demon-worship, all under the cover of Black culture.
To bring this diabolical neo-Marxist scheme to make sacred every form of Satanism and oppress Christians to the US would be to bring back a monster that grew in Brazil, but was born in the US. WND has reported some of consequences of this US policy grown in Brazil:
“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”.
Rev. Andrade is Black himself, but, true to their neo-Marxist motivation, so-called "racial equality" laws favor factional and destructive sub-“cultures” not people. This is the new left’s ingeniously reversed form of Nazism.
The visit of Russlynn Ali was also to assure an interchange between American and Brazilian Blacks. The first great interchange effort was initiated by US secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In 2008, under the cover of “culture”, she visited Black witchcraft temples in Brazil, saying that Brazilian Blacks had preserved what American Blacks had long lost. An interchange, she said, could help American Blacks to recover their roots.
Rice is the daughter of a Presbyterian minister wanting Blacks to return to her original Black roots. And Rev. Isaías da Silva Andrade is a Black Brazilian minister wanting Blacks to renounce their original Black roots to live for Christ.
This hellish interchange supported — it would appear — by the elites of both major American political parties endangers Christians, including Black Christians like Rev. Andrade.
Portuguese version of this article: Perpetuando o parasitismo politico e espiritual