Trump’s State Department Recognizes June as LGBTI Pride Month
By Julio Severo
U.S. Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson recognized June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex
(LGBTI) Pride Month — continuing the tradition of the State Department of Hillary Clinton under former president Barack Obama.
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U.S.
embassies and consulates have also received guidance from the State Department
allowing them to recognize the LGBTI Pride Month.
Tillerson condemned “violence and
discrimination” against homosexuals in foreign nations, stopping just
short of condemning Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations that torture and
murder homosexuals.
Meanwhile, Trump has yet to
publicly implore his ally, Saudi Arabia, to stop murdering its homosexual
citizens.
Tillerson continued in his
statement, “The United States remains committed to human rights and fundamental
freedoms for all persons. Dignity and equality for all persons are among our
founding constitutional principles, and these principles continue to drive U.S.
diplomacy.”
The
same homosexual principles that drove U.S. diplomacy under Obama now drive the
U.S. diplomacy under Trump. The only difference is that while Obama was vocal about
these principles, Trump gives a tacit support, by allowing his own
administration to speak for himself. If the saying “silence means assent” is
correct, Trump’s “silence” is a message.
Tillerson
is no stranger to supporting the LGBT agenda. A former national president of Boy
Scouts of America, he was a vocal, instrumental and effective force in ending
the ban on gay Scout leaders.
The
Baptist Press reported in 2013 that Tillerson, a Congregationalist Protestant,
met with the Southern Baptist Convention’s Frank Page, and explained why he
believed the Boy Scout’s policy against open homosexuals should be overturned.
“There
are changing cultural winds on the issue of homosexuality,” Tillerson said.
“He
prayed on it, and ultimately he came to the conclusion the only thing that can
guide him here is what’s best for the young boys,” John Hammer of the Center
for Strategic and International Studies told the Dallas News in 2014.
In
extraordinary contrast, Russia came to the conclusion the only thing that can
protect young boys from predatory homosexuality is a ban on homosexual
propaganda, and Russia approved such ban in 2013.
Obama
used the U.S. government to lead the world, by his bad example, into accepting
the homosexual lifestyle as normal. By tacit or explicit support, the Trump
administration is leading the world in the same bad example.
Trump is a man who speaks, and does
it strongly on strong issues. His silence while
powerful members of his administration promote the homosexual agenda is a
strong sign that he approves it and that in due time he will strongly defend
the same issues they are defending.
The
State Department has international power and its homosexual decisions harm the
international community, which was tired of Obama’s homosexual imperialism. Why
continue this imperialism?
America’s influence cannot to be
underestimated. The homosexual movement became active in Brazil by direct
cultural effect from America, including her politics and Hollywood.
Brazil, which is the largest
Catholic nation in the world, is also one of the biggest imitators of the most
depraved aspects of the U.S. culture. With such knowledge, I wrote in 1998 the
book “O Movimento Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), published by the
Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers, explaining how the homosexual
movement would increase in Brazil just by imitating America, including with
homosexual indoctrination in the schools.
People called me crazy in the late
1990s, saying that Brazilian schools would never have homosexual indoctrination.
But today they have it. America affects Brazil, for better or worse.
Obama’s and Clinton’s bad example
in homosexual politics affected Brazil. Trump administration’s bad example will
affect Brazil and other nations.
Trump’s silence, while his State
Department actively praises the homosexual abnormality in the international
community, is sheer connivance. To recognize a LGBTI month as a cause for “pride”
is a stupid praise. Homosexuality is a cause of shame and scandals, not pride.
Why then is Trump’ State Department so proud of a LGBT month?
When employees openly encourage
wickedness under the silence of their boss, his silence is connivance.
Homosexuality is a disgrace and wherever
it is present, perversion is its result. The
biggest scandals in the Catholic Church today are caused by homosexual priests. Homosexuality is a cause of shame
and scandals, not pride, in the Catholic Church and other institutions.
Why does Trump’s State Department
want to praise and encourage in the international community a behavioral
abnormality and perversion that causes scandals and tragedy to children? Why
does not the State Department engage itself in an international campaign to
protect children from the homosexual propaganda and its evils?
I
admired when America, her presidents and administrations praised and encouraged
people to read the Bible, which condemns homosexuality.
George Washington, the first
U.S. president, condemned homosexuality. The only proper diplomatic
attitude to homosexuality is condemnation and discouragement.
Washington’s attitude was a good
example. What Obama’s State Department did and what Trump’s State Department is
doing is bad example.
Of
course, extremist groups should be condemned. Some pro-Inquisition Catholics
advocate capital punishment for homosexuals, and I have publicly rebuked them
for it in my article “A Global Inquisition to Put Homosexuals
to Death?” Yet, extremist groups should not be used as excuse
to protect predatory homosexuality. Children, not homosexual propaganda, need
protection.
Probably, the Trump administration
is supporting the homosexual agenda to please the Left, which even so is not
pleased, because it
wants the whole cake, and Trump is giving them only one slice.
As a Brazilian conservative
evangelical, I ask U.S. evangelicals to press the Trump administration to
abandon Obama’s homosexual imperialism in the State Department and honor
his commitment to his evangelical constituents, who were instrumental for his
victory. The Trump administration should defend family against predatory
homosexuality, which is a special threat to children.
I am moved and encouraged by
Washington’s good example, but I am ashamed by the bad example in Trump’s State
Department, which says that it is worried about human rights of homosexuals but
neither
the White House nor Tillerson have publicly condemned the U.S. ally, Saudi
Arabia, for murdering homosexuals.
How can Trump’s State Department
and its embassies and consulates say to the world that America is proud of
homosexuality? So is America under Trump ashamed of George Washington and the
Bible he believed in? Is America under Trump ashamed that the Bible, the Book
that made America great, condemns homosexuality?
If Sodom was destroyed over
homosexual sin, how does America expect to escape God’s judgment over the same
sin?
“Righteousness
lifts up a nation, but sin is a disgrace in any society.” (Proverbs 14:34 GWV)
With information from ABC News,
Christian News Net, Newsweek and Washington Blade.
Portuguese version of this article: Departamento
de Estado de Trump reconhece junho como Mês do Orgulho LGBTI
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