Blogger ordered to pay $6,000 for protesting taxpayer funding of transgender group
Steve Weatherbe
CAMPO
GRANDE, Brazil, April, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A Brazilian Catholic blogger was
ordered to pay a US$6,000 fine after his conviction for hate speech against
homosexuals.
His
post called for the public to protest a proposal before Campo Grande city
council to fund the Transvestite and Transsexual Association of Mato Grosso do
Sul. He declared, “It is the limit of villainy to consider giving taxpayer
money to the main hosts of infectious and communicable diseases as AIDS and
syphilis.”
The
article continued, “Evidently, Campo Grande has more moral and urgent needs for
tax money than funding an association of transvestites. In a little while they
may propose tax money to pedophiles. If you are also against the State funding
homosexuality and faggoting, visit the website and vote NO.”
Fellow
pro-family and pro-life blogger Julio Severo, who fled Brazil in 2009 to avoid
prosecution for a similar offense, argued on his own blog that Brazilian
prosecutors have tolerated far worse offenses against Christians without taking
action. “Left-wing activists who advocate the homosexualist movement have
inserted, publicly, crucifixes in their anuses as a form of protest with no
fear of being prosecuted,” he said.
However,
prosecutors charged that Calvacanti “is a provoker of moral pain and suffering
to the LGBT community in Campo Grande through this offense against the rights
of personhood of those people.”
Calvacanti
argued that Brazilian law does not recognize homosexuals as a group that can be
discriminated against. He also challenged the role of the prosecutors, who
appeared to be acting as lawyers for the transvestite and transsexual
association.
The
judge, who Calvacanti claimed makes regular appearances on TV newscasts
advocating the LGBT agenda, agreed with the prosecutors and dismissed
Calvacanti’s arguments. In his ruling, the judge stated, “It does not matter if
this person is male or female, is black or white, religious or atheist,
heterosexual or homosexual. Everyone has the right to live as they wish,
especially in intimacy, without anyone being allowed to incite hatred.”
The
action against Calvacanti follows closely a similar conviction against
politician Levy Fidelix and a US$8,000 fine for remarks he made while
contesting the Brazilian presidency in the 2104 election.
Severo
expressed hope that free speech about homosexuality might be restored to Brazil
by “the extraordinary growth of conservative evangelical movements that are
pushing Brazilian politics to the right.”
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