120 pro-family leaders outraged after U.S. ambassador participates in Czech ‘gay pride’

by Thaddeus Baklinski

PRAGUE, August 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Pro-family leaders around the world have condemned an endorsement by the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic of a Czech homosexual festival held over the weekend.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) issued an open letter signed by more than 120 pro-family and pro-life leaders from 11 countries, after U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen addressed the opening of the Prague Pride Festival on August 13.

“I am truly honored to be here today representing the United States and President Obama in the effort to ensure the rights of the global LGBT community,” Eisen said, adding that he spoke on behalf of ambassadors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, and the charge d’affaires of the Danish and Dutch embassies, who signed a letter of support for the homosexual event.

Norman Eisen

Signers of the WCF letter include Martin Luther King’s niece Alveda King, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former majority leader in the House of Representatives Tom DeLay, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, who represents more than 1,200 Orthodox rabbis, and representatives of dozens of pro-family organizations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

The signatories of the WCF letter note that the Obama administration has made promoting homosexual “rights” – including same-sex “marriage” – a foreign policy priority. However, they say, “The Obama’s administration’s embrace of ‘same-sex marriage’ has been overwhelmingly rejected by the American people.”

The letter also argues that it is ironical that those who complain about “cultural imperialism” are trying to force the worldviews of the American left on societies with traditional values.

“The United Nations has never affirmed homosexual marriage or rights,” while the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifically says that “men and women…have a right to marry and found a family,” the letter observes.

The letter concludes with a commendation of Michal Semin, chairman of Akce DOST (Action ENOUGH), and other Czech pro-life and pro-family leaders for their stalwart defense of the natural family.

Akce DOST, which organized pro-life and pro-family counter-demonstrations to take place at the same time as the “Prague Pride 2012” event, delivered a letter of protest to the mayor of Prague and the U.S. Embassy stating, “The festival mostly represents a week-long party of homoeroticism and [the] pornographic industry.”

Descriptions and photos of the DOST counter-demonstrations in Prague are available on the group’s website (in Czech) here.

The full text of the “Letter by pro-family leaders worldwide protesting participation of the US Embassy in Prague “Gay Pride” parade” is available here.

Contact information:

Norman L. Eisen
Ambassador of the United States to the Czech Republic
Tržiště 15
118 01 Praha 1 - Malá Strana
Czech Republic
Phone: (+420) 257 022 000
Fax: (+420) 257 022 809
Email: linhartovaa@state.gov

Source: LifeSiteNews, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Dozens of pro-family leaders denounce U.S. embassy’s participation in Czech ‘gay pride’ parade

Comment by Julio Severo: I am not only one of the signatories of this pro-family letter, but I have just sent the following message to the US ambassador:

To Mr. Norman L. Eisen (linhartovaa@state.gov)

Dear Mr. Eisen

Recently, Billy Graham said, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

He is right, not only because he is a prominent minister, but also because the Founder Fathers, if they saw America today, would have most surely agreed with him.

Are you sure that they would have wanted sodomy to be a cause for pride in the US government and society?

Are you sure that they would have tolerated it?

Are you sure that they had envisioned a Republic that would impose it on other nations?

The Bible, the most revered book in the American history and read by the most prominent US presidents, says, “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7 ESV)

Julio Severo

Dozens of pro-family leaders denounce U.S. embassy’s participation in Czech ‘gay pride’ parade

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

August 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Dozens of pro-family leaders have signed a petition to condemn the participation of the U.S. embassy in the Czech Republic in this year’s “gay pride” parade to be held in Prague later this month.

The signatories “vigorously protest the participation of the United States Embassy in the Czech Republic in a so-called gay-pride parade which will take place on August 18,” lamenting that “at the directive of the president of the United States, Washington is aggressively promoting the ‘gay’’ agenda internationally, including same-sex ‘marriage’ and the stigmatization and marginalization of any who object to the same.”

The petition notes that “The Obama’s administration’s embrace of ‘same-sex marriage’ has been overwhelmingly rejected by the American people,” and finds no support in international law.

“The United Nations has never affirmed homosexual ‘marriage’ or rights,” observe the signatories, pointing out that the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights allows marriage only for “Men and women of full age,” and that the same document “further defines the family as ‘the natural and fundamental group unit of society’” which is “entitled to protection by society and the State.”

Czech Republic

The petition, which was formulated by Czech pro-family activists and is being circulated by the World Congress of Families, has been signed by representatives of the Alliance Defense Fund, Human Life International, the Population Research Institute, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Tradition Family and Property, the Latin American Alliance for the Family, the Traditional Values Coalition, Spain’s Make Yourself Heard (HazteOir), Mexico’s Family Network (Red Familia), Liberty Counsel, and the United Kingdom’s Christian Concern, [Julio Severo, Brazil], among many others.

The protest follows a similar statement issued against the U.S. ambassador to Latvia’s participation in the “Baltic Gay Pride Parade” in June of this year.

The U.S. State Department, under the leadership of Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration, has created controversy in recent years by using its diplomatic muscle and prestige to promote the homosexual agenda in foreign countries.

The appointment of Marie Carmen Aponte as ambassador to El Salvador was blocked by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee in December of last year because of an open letter she wrote to a local newspaper denouncing “homophobia,” claiming that those who opposed the acceptance of special rights for homosexuals are motivated by “hate” and “prejudice,” and quoting Hillary Clinton’s aphorism that “gay rights are human rights.”

See the petition and full list of signatories here.

Source: LifeSiteNews, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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Pravda publishes attack on Brazilian president’s pro-abortion policies

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

August 2, 2012 (LifeSIteNews.com) — The Portuguese version of the Russian communist news service Pravda, (“Truth”) featured an essay by pro-life activist Alberto Monteiro attacking Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s pro-abortion policies on its front page last week. The news service displayed a link to the article at the top of the page, and an image of Rousseff next to the figure of a pregnant woman with a red fetus inside her body.

The article accuses Rousseff of violating her campaign promises, in which she pledged not to introduce legislation to legalize abortion. It also provides links to various statements by Catholic bishops and priests denouncing Rousseff and explaining the connivance of international organizations seeking to impose population control agendas on the country.

“Copious documentation, found on the Official Daily of the Union, shows that the government of Dilma, through the Ministry of Health, in agreement with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, contrary to the promises that the president had made during the electoral campaign ARE GIVING CONTINUITY TO NEW INITIATIVES TO IMPLANT ABORTION IN BRAZIL, initiatives whose new principles date from 2009, the period of the Lula government,” writes Monteiro.

“Brazil, and many other countries along with it, are being led to a new form of dictatorship, unknown until today in the annals of history ... the problem transcends the borders of any country, because it is part of a joint plan heavily financed by international organizations that invest in the promotion of abortion around the world,” Monteiro also states.

Pravda’s decision to publish an open call for opposition to Rousseff’s pro-abortion agenda is a sign of the increasing support of pro-life and pro-family causes among Russians.

Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, the Russian state has become a strong supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church, and in recent years has moved to eliminate state subsidies for most abortions. Putin has also announced plans to offer subsidies for larger families.

Such moves have been provoked in part by population declines suffered in Russia during the last decade. In February of this year, Prime Minister Medvedev warned: “We are facing the risk of turning into an ‘empty space’ whose fate will not be decided by us.” He added, “The historic price of the choice between action and inaction is nearly 50 million human lives over the next 40 years.”

Putin’s United Russia Party’s administration in Moscow and St. Petersburg have also firmly opposed the implementation of “gay parades” and other public displays on the part of the homosexual movement.

Russia’s communist leadership was the first to legalize abortion in the history of modern Europe, although it was mostly prohibited under the leadership of Josef Stalin. Following Stalin’s death it was again made legal, and is today one of the leading causes of deaths among Russians, with 74 abortions for every 100 live births.

Source: LifeSiteNews, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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