Radical Gay Activist Defends Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University
By Julio
Severo
In
2012, Brazilian gay activist Márcio Retamero became famous by defending armed
violence against Christian opponents of the gay “marriage.”
This
MPU is doing very well. MPU professors have been defending abortion,
homosexuality and Marxism.
In a
Senate hearing on August 6, 2015, MPU
professor Márcia Tiburi said, “To vociferate against abortion is
just a biopolitical way to control women’s lives. Abortion legalization is a
fundamental part of a socially responsible democratic process.”
MPU
professor Osvaldo
Coggiola has several books defending Marxism, including the Cuban
Revolution.
MPU
professor
Marcelo Moreira Neumann, author of the Brazilian study “Homophobic
Bullying and School Performance,” defends automatic gender neutrality in birth
registries.
Mackenzie
Presbyterian University is
the most prominent Calvinist or Presbyterian educational institution in Brazil.
What
is fascinating is that Mackenzie, with all its Calvinist confession, and
Calvinist leaders who have decision power to stop all this mess, are very fast
and sharp to attack the conservative growth produced by neo-Pentecostals
(charismatics) in Brazil, as
reported recently by the Islamic news website Al Jazeera, where a
Mackenzie professor criticized the neo-Pentecostal (charismatic) growth leading
the Brazilian politics to the Right.
If
the MPU owner (Presbyterian Church of Brazil) is actually evangelical, why has
it allowed this to happen? Lack of vision?
Lack
of vision, to those who do not believe in vision, is normal. MPU had been
headed for many years by Rev. Augustus Nicodemus, who had authority in the
hiring of professors opposed to Marxism and abortion, but he preferred to
occupy himself with his cessationist theology, which denies that the Holy
Spirit grants today gifts as vision and prophecy. Nicodemus
is the greatest cessationist theologian in Brazil.
Márcio
Retamero is very satisfied with the MPU’s current secularized state. But he is
not happy about my comments. Days ago, I said
in my Facebook:
“What kind of
gospel is this? Certain Brazilian Calvinists talk crudely about Brazilian Assemblies
of God minister Silas Malafaia and other charismatics. Very easily, they label
everything in them ‘heresy.’ But when they talk about the Mackenzie
Presbyterian University (MPU), which has Marxist, pro-abortion and
homosexualist professors, those same Calvinists use respectful and pleasing
terms. Is apostasy only sanctified and approved when it brings Calvin’s seal?
If Malafaia and charismatics had the belligerent and quarrelsome spirit of
those Brazilian Calvinists, they would say week after week that MPU is a pit of
apostasy — a labeling in harmony with Bible’s reality, because no evangelical
educational institution can have Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist
professors.”
Retamero
answered:
“Wait! One
thing is a confessional, denomination seminary, etc. Another thing very
different is a college, which even though is an autarchy or belonging to a
denomination, has a secular character, is connected to the Department of
Education and laws and the Constitution. In seminary is valid the faith
principles of a church, usually these are not connected to the Department of
Education (in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil is this way, later its students
make a test of validation of the course made at the seminary). Little Severo
always talking little nonsense… Some people do not learn.”
I said,
“It does not
matter the standard of the Department of Education. The important thing is that
having Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist professors, the Mackenzie
Presbyterian University attempts against God’s standard, peddling itself and
prostituting itself for a plate of lentils. To those who are not faithful to
the Bible, this is nothing. But to those who are faithful, this is apostasy.”
Retamero
answered,
“What does
[Julio] recommend? That MPU severs relations with the Department of Education
and goes bankrupt?! Notify this fundamentalist fanatical Taliban madman that
the Bible is not — thank God — the Constitution of this nation, because in this
country the State is still secular. This guy irritates in a high degree!”
A
Secular State is helpful for keeping the most prominent Calvinist institution
in Brazil in the orbit of Marxist, pro-abortion and homosexualist professors,
according to Retamero’s view. And he defends his “secular” ideas with the
typical violence of Marxists.
In a
hearing at the House of Representatives in Brazil in 2012, Retamero
said that he is willing to take up arms against Christians that
defend natural family. You can watch him saying this in this video: http://youtu.be/dg1P7osbwSQ
Retamero,
who uses the title “reverend” and proclaims that he is the minister of the
Presbyterian Church of the Botafogo Beach and of the Metropolitan Community
Church in Rio de Janeiro, praises the secularized state of Mackenzie
Presbyterian University, but he mocks real Christians. In 2009, he published an
article entitled “Open Letter to Julio Severo, a Religious Fundamentalist and
Homophobic,” where, by accusing my blog of spreading hatred against
homosexuals, he said “I ask federal prosecutors to keep their efforts to find
him, and bring him back, even by extradition.”
Nicodemus,
the most prominent Presbyterian theologian in Brazil who has criticized by name
C.
Peter Wagner and other charismatics, has never criticized by name
Retamero, the most prominent Presbyterian gay activist in Brazil.
Portuguese
version of this article: Ativista gay radical
defende a Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Source: Last Days Watchman
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