Gay militant Jean Wyllys at Brazilian Presbyterian University
Has Mackenzie Presbyterian University given in to politically correct trends?
By Julio
Severo
In its debate
entitled “Sexual Diversity and Religious Freedom: A Possible Marriage?” on
February 28, 2013, Mackenzie Presbyterian University in Brazil, in partnership
with its chancellery, invited congressman Jean Wyllys, a gay supremacist, to address sexual diversity.
To avoid a 100%
homosexualist debate, Chancellor Augustus Nicodemus Lopes also invited Dr. Guilherme
Zanina Schelb, member of the Advisory Council of ANAJURE, of which Lopes
himself is the president of the Council.
In the presentation
featuring Schelb as a federal prosecutor, Mackenzie stressed that this member
of ANAJURE became internationally famous as a coordinator of some major investigations,
including one designated “Araguaia Guerrilla.” This investigation, according to
the Brazilian Senate, was to answer the requests of relatives of the 68
communist guerrilla combatants who died in battles against Brazilian soldiers
in Araguaia, in the North of Brazil in the early 1970s. Those criminals fought
against the Brazilian government to establish a communist dictatorship in
Brazil.
As if this were
not sufficiently sinister, Schelb has been accused of trying to enrich himself
with his research, an attitude conflicting with Christian ethics, particularly
when profits are obtained in whitewashing outright communist criminals.
Despite all
this, he is known as “moderate,” whatever this means.
Until now, Mackenzie
had not made available the contents of the speeches of Wyllys or Schelb, but a
student of the Presbyterian university, who attended the debate, expressed
openly that she loved the speech of the gay supremacist, saying:
One cannot say,
however, that Mackenzie was the first Protestant institution in Brazil to
invite a gay activist for a debate on sexual diversity. That dubious “honor”
belongs to the Higher School of Theology (HST), which held an event in 2006
where the most famous participant was Luiz Mott, leader of the Brazilian gay movement accused
of defending pedophilia.
HST belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil.
What we can
expect next after Luiz Mott in HST and Jean Wyllys in Mackenzie? Toni Reis, president of a large gay group in Brazil, at the blatantly leftist
Methodist University of São Paulo?
While struggling
to understand how Wyllys’ participation could provide some benefit for
Brazilian Christianity or for the Presbyterian university itself, I read in the
Twitter account of Wyllys his message recommending Ricardo Gondim, a famous
progressive minister in Brazil, who has been corrupted by the Liberation
Theology ideas:
Another message
of Wyllys shamelessly recommends Paulo Ghiraldelli, a Brazilian philosopher
known for his explicit defense of homosexuality and pedophilia:
How could a
Protestant university invite a homosexual activist who recommends an advocate
of pedophilia? Besides, how could a Presbyterian university present him as an
individual actively involved in the “fight against homophobia, intolerance and
religious fundamentalisms?” Are they not ashamed of this?
Could they
invite him at least for evangelization purposes? Of course. All institutions carrying
the Christian name have an obligation to evangelize promoters of abominations,
not to promote them.
In the case of
Wyllys, who was trained in the base ecclesiastic communities, well-known hotbeds
of Marxist Liberation Theology, it was a duty of the Mackenzie chancellery to
veto and reject the granting of free ideological publicity for a well-known gay
supremacist.
In 2010, the
same chancellery, under pressure from such supremacists, removed from the
Presbyterian university website a manifesto opposing PLC 122, a federal anti-homophobia
bill sponsored by the ruling socialist Workers’ Party. This manifesto had been
there since 2007. It led supremacists to notice and condemn the manifesto
(which presented a watered-down opposition to the gay agenda), that the
Mackenzie chancellor bowed to the threats of hardcore homosexual activists.
At that time,
some Brazilian Calvinists connected to Mackenzie told me that the manifesto had
been removed because Mackenzie’s prime concern was “evangelization.” But I did
not see its professors and students going to the streets to evangelize among demonstrators.
And the “fighter against ‘homophobia,’ intolerance and religious
fundamentalisms” evidently was not invited to be exposed to detailed knowledge
of the Gospel of salvation by the Mackenzie Calvinist theologians — an
invitation he would have quickly rejected.
I suffer the
same pressure by gay supremacists to remove from my blog my articles and
manifestos denouncing PLC 122 and the gay agenda. Because I don’t give in, I am
subject to all kinds of actions seeking to censor, block and eliminate my blogs
entirely. Other attacks come from leftist Protestants who proclaim themselves
to be defenders of faith or Calvinists. But neither my stance nor the constants
attacks and threats that I receive hinder the evangelization of young
homosexuals, many of whom have contacted me asking for help.
In the same way,
I am sure that if Mackenzie had not removed its anti-PLC 122 manifesto, they
would not lack evangelization opportunities, including among homosexuals and
gay activists who study and work in the Presbyterian university.
However, if
Mackenzie had changed mind and, instead of evangelization, just wanted a
“debate,” why bring Wyllys? Why let him use the Protestant university as a
“pulpit” to preach his perversions?
Would it not have
been better to bring in a more qualified individual?
For a genuinely
Christian debate on the threats of gay activism in the Brazilian society,
Mackenzie could have invited Silas Malafaia, whose Christian view on
homosexuality are worth much more than millions of speeches by Wyllys.
However, the
belief of Malafaia in supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit as prophecy,
healings, miracles and tongues for today could disqualify him from such an
invitation. Besides, he doesn’t bear the Presbyterian or Calvinist seal of
approval. But does Wyllys have such approval? All that he has done so far in
this regard was to say that “Calvinists are allies of the homosexual movement.”
Was Wyllys
referring to America, where the largest Presbyterian denomination ordains gay
ministers and promotes a liberalism and leftism that would make Karl Marx’s
rotten bones to tingle with joy in his grave?
If he was
talking about Brazil, certainly he was referring to Genizah
and other Calvinist tabloid clones of its liberal sensationalism. Can Mackenzie
be included in this? In a direct way, I don’t think so. But indirectly, it is
possible. The chancellor is not liberal, but his lack of belief in the power of
the Holy Spirit among Christians today makes him vulnerable to politically
correct pitfalls and pressures.
When describing
the chancellor, the Babylon Dictionary in Portuguese (as accessed on March 2,
2013) says: Augustus Nicodemus Lopes “believes that the divine revelation
through spiritual gifts and prophecy has ended, and does not believe in
manifestation of tongues as a sign of the Holy Spirit’s activities in modern
days. For this reason, he is considered by Pentecostal writers as a cessationist
and elitist in his interpretation of the Scriptures.”
However it may
be, with or without vision, it is obvious that the Mackenzie University didn’t
invite Wyllys for evangelistic purposes.
Maybe they just
wanted to use his famous presence so that the big leftist media, which so much
pampers Wyllys with spotlights and propaganda, noticed that ANAJURE, a new
Brazilian group of Christian lawyers, exists.
Such a tactics,
if it was really used, is a strange way of achieving visibility and spotlight,
especially for Christians, who should believe that God honors those that honor
Him, and He gives visibility to those who openly — in the university,
television or other places — acknowledges His name, as Jesus Christ, the living
Word, has taught,
“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before
men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, but the one
who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.” (Luke 12:8-9
ESV)
“The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and
he exalts.” (1 Samuel 2:7 ESV)
At one time,
Wyllys might have been invited only to hear about the Son of Man who frees men
from homosexual sin.
Portuguese version of this article: Jean
Wyllys no Mackenzie
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