“Conservatives” Against “Conservatives”: Brazilian President Bolsonaro Is Called a “Homophobe” by U.S. “Conservative” Fox News
By Julio
Severo
“Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s
comment that the country must not become a ‘gay tourism paradise’ sparked
concern that LGBTQ people will avoid traveling to the country, fearing the
possibility of violence, according to advocates and industry representatives,”
said Fox News on Sunday.
The Fox News report was titled “Homophobic
remarks by Brazil's president could harm tourism industry, advocates say.”
You could measure Fox News as more
conservative because U.S. President Donald Trump has given preference to Fox
News instead of CNN, a liberal channel whom he accuses of FakeNews. So if Fox
News accuses Bolsonaro of being a “homophobe,” is this accusation accurate?
In his March trip to the U.S., Bolsonaro
also preferred to be interviewed by Fox News instead of CNN, because he also
thinks that Fox News is more conservative and because he is against FakeNews.
So, again, is Fox News’s accusation of him
being a “homophobe” correct?
Fox News said,
“During
a talk with reporters on Thursday, Bolsonaro said that the Latin American
country should avoid being known as a gay destination because ‘we have
families.’”
I see no problem in his comment, because there
is no pride in being known as a modern Sodom, filled of homosexual orgies.
But then Fox News added a troubling
comment by Bolsonaro,
“He
said that tourists were more than welcome to ‘come here and have sex with a
woman.’”
It seems that in this point Fox News
aligned itself with homosexualists, who basically complained that if Bolsonaro
is ok with tourists coming to Brazil to have sex with women, why not with men
too?
Actually, the additional comment by
Bolsonaro cannot be considered conservative. To say that tourists are more than
welcome to come to Brazil to have sex with women is to treat Brazilian women as
whores.
But such offensive comment was not
criticized by Fox News, which seems to understand that if Brazilian women are
entitled to be treated as whores of tourists, Brazilian men and boys have the
same right.
I add boys because Brazil has a massive
problem with tourists looking for prostitution, including with underage girls.
Homosexual tourism involving prostitution, including with underage boys, has
never been assessed by experts.
Fox News said,
“Bolsonaro’s
homophobic remarks will have social and economic repercussions for Brazil,”
John Tanzella, president of the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association, an organization
with members in 75 countries, told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
While there is no official data on how much
revenue LGBTQ tourism generates in Brazil, major events like Sao Paulo’s
annual LGBTQ Pride Parade, and Rio de Janeiro’s gay-friendly Carnival,
fill hotels nearly to maximum capacity.
“It’s
going to have an impact,” Alfredo Lopes, Rio’s regional president of the
Brazilian Association of Hotels, told the news agency.
Why cannot Fox News and others see other
impacts? Brazilian hotels are known to have scandals of, against the law,
allowing underage girls being made available to tourists. Are not Brazilian
boys made available to tourists in hotels too?
Also, why see only the alleged positive
financial impact, and ignore the negative impacts?
Homosexuality is linked to a host of evils
and sexual diseases. What is the impact of these evils and diseases in the
Brazilian society? Who pays for the medical bills of the sexual exploitation by
homosexual tourists?
So
homosexual tourists come without leaving any cheque to cover medical expenses for
the burden of their sexual proclivities. Hotels also do not pay for the medical
bills, which are billed to the Brazilian taxpayers. This is the reason I am
complaining here. Why am I, a Brazilian taxpayer with seven children, forced to
pay for the medical bills in government hospitals of men and boys used by
homosexual tourists? Why not add this financial impact in the consequences of
homosexual tourism? Why have I to pay for the burden of this pervert tourism?
“Conservative” Fox News said,
Bolsonaro,
a self-proclaimed “proud homophobe,” has made numerous negative comments
about the LGBTQ community over the years.
On
Friday, a Brazilian bank commercial highlighting the country’s diversity was
pulled following a demand from Bolsonaro. The campaign featured black and
transgender actors and it began running at the beginning of the month before it
was pulled on April 14, according to Yahoo! News.
What
Fox News did not say is that the bank is federal. So I and other Brazilian
taxpayers pay for the homosexual commercial. Is it fair? Brazilian conservatives
should not be forced to pay for a homosexual commercial from a federal institution
imposing values against the Brazilian family.
If to remove a commercial glorifying
homosexuality makes Bolsonaro a “homophobe,” I am too, and proudly. But if the
definition of “homophobia” is violence against homosexuals, Bolsonaro is not a “homophobe,”
because he has never committed any violence to homosexuals. I am not a “homophobe”
too, because I have never committed any violence to homosexuals.
In spite of accusations of “homophobia” from
“conservative” Fox News, the Bolsonaro administration has decided to keep laws
and federal homosexual departments created by the former administrations of
socialist presidents Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Homosexual
directors of federal homosexual agencies appointed by Rousseff will be kept in
their posts, by Bolsonaro’s decision. So how can Fox News accuse him of being a
“homophobe” if he is keeping homosexualists in federal posts?
I am the author of “O Movimento
Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), published originally by the Brazilian
branch of Bethany House Publishers in 1998. This was the first book to expose
the homosexual agenda in Brazil.
As
a conservative evangelical who has been fighting against the homosexual agenda
for over 20 years, including during the terms of Lula and Rousseff, I cannot
understand and accept that “homophobe” Bolsonaro has decided to keep federal
homosexual agencies in his administration, forcing me and other taxpayers to
pay the salaries of homosexualists in the federal government.
I cannot also accept Bolsonaro’s comment
that tourists are more than welcome to come to Brazil to have sex with women,
who should not be treated as whores. This comment was very offensive to
Brazilian women, and Fox News should have condemned it, but it did not do it.
There is some conservatism in Bolsonaro.
Some fake conservatism. And some confusion. Much
of this confusion is because he is very poorly advised.
Yet, how can “conservative” Fox News help
him if it condemns him for removing a homosexual commercial but does not condemn
him for keeping federal homosexual agencies in his administration and for
disrespecting Brazilian women?
Portuguese
version of this article: “Conservadores” contra “conservadores”: Bolsonaro é
chamado de “homófobo” pelo canal de TV “conservador” Fox News dos EUA
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