Monday, February 25, 2019

Largest U.S. Gay Magazine Furious Over Evangelical Protest Against U.S. Government Effort to Decriminalize Homosexuality Around the World


Largest U.S. Gay Magazine Furious Over Evangelical Protest Against U.S. Government Effort to Decriminalize Homosexuality Around the World

By Julio Severo
It is not a small thing when two prominent U.S. left-wing publications choose to expose and attack you for your conservative stances. It is a sign that your conservative views are bothering them and having a good effect.
The latest dissatisfaction and complain from the left are because U.S. evangelical leaders and I protested over a recent push by Trump’s State Department to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. We protested especially because this liberal effort is being led by the most prominent homosexual activist in the Republican Party and in the Trump administration, Richard Grenell, who is the U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
Such protest led The Advocate and Right Wing Watch to make the choice of attacking me. In an article titled “Evangelicals Furious Over Trump Plan to Decriminalize Homosexuality,” The Advocate, which is the biggest U.S. gay magazine and boasts, in its own words, of being “The World’s Leading News Source for LGBT,” said,
In a commentary for BarbWire, another far-right site, Julio Severo denounced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a conservative Christian, for supporting Grenell’s effort, and took the opportunity to accuse LGBTQ people of being a danger to children.
“Such push coming from the Trump administration is a shame,” Severo wrote. “Coming from an evangelical who is the State Secretary, helping homosexual activist Grenell, is a bigger shame, because he is doing exactly what left-wing Protestant Hillary Clinton was doing when she was also a State Secretary.”
I have no pleasure in denouncing “evangelical” Pompeo or any other evangelical advocating any component of the homosexual agenda. But is not it very strange that Pompeo, whom The Advocate labels as a “conservative Christian,” needs the biggest U.S. gay magazine to defend him from a Brazilian conservative evangelical? Is not it strange that The Advocate sides with him against me?
It is stranger that a powerful gay magazine had to intervene somewhat to defend the Trump administration from conservative evangelicals like me.
The Advocate correctly mentioned my view on homosexuality and violence,
“When I think about violence and homosexuality, the first thought coming to my mind is not individuals suffering violence for their sexual lifestyle,” he added. “The first thinking is children suffering homosexual violence — physical and psychological. There is a massive effort to cover up the suffering of children in the hands of homosexual predators.”
Saying, with no evidence, that there is no connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse of boys, The Advocate added that I “blamed gay priests for the widespread abuse of children and teens in the Roman Catholic Church. The church ‘is a living evidence of the gravity of homosexual violence against children.’”
You can read more of my BarbWire article that bothered The Advocate here.
Other conservatives exposed in The Advocate’s story are Massachusetts minister and WorldNetDaily columnist Scott Lively and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins.
This is not the first time that The Advocate chose me for attacks. In a June 2017 story, The Advocate called me and other American conservatives “wingnuts.” You can read my answer to The Advocate in my article: Reading the Far Left: Left-Wing Wingnuts Call Conservatives What They Are
In another June 2017 story, The Advocate said,
“BarbWire contributor, Julio Severo, spent a recent column excoriating Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for recognizing June as LGBT Pride Month.”
As an evangelical, former State Secretary Rex Tillerson proclaimed June 2017 as “LGBT Pride Month,” and as an evangelical, I denounced it. Now that current evangelical State Secretary Mike Pompeo proclaimed June 2018 as “LGBTI Pride Month,” as an evangelical I have also denounced it.
As a conservative evangelical, it is my Christian duty to denounce evangelicals who help the homosexual activism. Sadly, two of these evangelicals, Pompeo and Tillerson, have had the highest post in the State Department, right under the watch of Trump. In fact, they were appointed by him. And The Advocate thinks that it is its duty to defend them against me!
It is very interesting that evangelical State Secretaries Pompeo and Tillerson are not in any The Advocate’s blacklist. But I am! And as far as it depends on The Advocate, I deserve also to be backlisted by State Secretaries and their State Department.
These are not the only attacks of The Advocate against me. In 2011 The Advocate criticized me because I defended a child and her biological mother against a homosexual predator. You can read the whole story here: “World’s biggest gay magazine: no compassion and tolerance for a former lesbian and her daughter.”
The Advocate is not the only far-left-wing group in the U.S. attacking me.
Right Wing Watch, a far-left-wing group, said on February 22, 2019:
Julio Severo is very upset about the Trump administration’s global effort to decriminalize homosexuality: “When I think about violence and homosexuality, the first thought coming to my mind is not individuals suffering violence for their sexual lifestyle. The first thinking is children suffering homosexual violence — physical and psychological. There is a massive effort to cover up the suffering of children in the hands of homosexual predators.”
Other conservatives attacked by Right Wing Watch were Franklin Graham and BarbWire editor David Jolly.
Right Wing Watch is a project of the far-left-wing People for the American Way and it has, according to its website, a special mission to attack conservatives opposed to the gay agenda, abortion and Muslim ideology.
According to WND, People for the American Way (PFAW) is “an atheist socialist organization which, through publications like its ‘Right Wing Watch,’ dedicates itself to the destruction of conservatives in general.”
Many prominent U.S. conservative names are in Right Wing Watch’s blacklist. My place in their blacklist is here.
What do U.S. conservatives say about Right Wing Watch?
Pat Robertson, of 700 Club, said, “A nasty group.”
Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth of Homosexuality, said, “They should call it People for the Homosexual Way.”
Matt Barber, the founder of BarbWire, said, “A radical secularist agenda… a socialist agenda… pushing the culture of death.”
Twenty, ten years ago I was attacked only by the Brazilian left-wing and homosexualist movement for denouncing the former Brazilian socialist administrations and their left-wing and homosexualist policies. The attacks happened especially because I am the author of the book “O Movimento Homosexual,” published in 1998 by the Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers. This was the first Brazilian book exposing the homosexual movement.
Today I am attacked by the powerful U.S. left and homosexualist movement, firstly, for denouncing Obama and his left-wing and homosexualist policies, and now for denouncing Trump’s State Department and its homosexualist policies.
If I never spared Obama for his homosexualist policies, why should I spare Trump?
I stand on God’s Word. The Advocate and Right Wing Watch shall pass away, but God’s Word shall last forever.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Trump Administration Seeks Legalization of Homosexuality Around the World While Children and Other Victims of Homosexuality Are Forgotten


Trump Administration Seeks Legalization of Homosexuality Around the World While Children and Other Victims of Homosexuality Are Forgotten

By Julio Severo
U.S. conservatives were shocked when they read headlines this week announcing that the U.S. government is spearheading an effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. This is a concern especially for the main base of Trump: evangelicals.
In its headline titled “New Trump push: Make homosexuality legal everywhere,” WND (WorldNetDaily) said,
“The Trump administration’s highest profile gay person is leading an effort to decriminalize homosexuality in dozens of nations where it’s still illegal.”
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who is a prominent homosexual activist in the Republican Party and in the Trump administration, was chosen by Trump to lead the decriminalization push. Grenell is married to a homosexual man and he has been fighting for homosexual privileges, including gay “marriage.”
Even though, in this phase, the U.S. government has said that the push involves no fight for gay “marriage,” the tone that the U.S. State Department has been giving to the homosexual agenda is very worrying.
WND said,
“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, is supporting the diplomatic effort to fight violence and discrimination against LGBT people, NBC said, citing U.S. officials. Pompeo declared in his Senate confirmation hearing: ‘I deeply believe that LGBTQ persons have every right that every other person in the world would have.’”
By saying that homosexuals have every right that every other person has, Pompeo betrayed the real intent of the Trump administration, because if every person has a right to marriage and adoption of children, Pompeo’s declaration suggested that every homosexual has a right to marriage and adoption of children too. It is, as he said himself, his deep conviction.
Such push coming from the Trump administration is a shame. Coming from an evangelical who is the State Secretary, helping homosexual activist Grenell, is a bigger shame, because he is doing exactly what left-wing Protestant Hillary Clinton was doing when she was also a State Secretary.
On the homosexual issue, the Trump administration is misrepresenting U.S. conservatives.
On the homosexual issue, “evangelical” Pompeo is misrepresenting U.S. evangelicals.
Under Clinton, the State Department had its Gay Pride Months. Now under “evangelical” Pompeo, the State Department has its “LGBTI Pride Months.” A whole month where U.S. government officials celebrate homosexuality in the U.S. and its embassies around the world!
Even if the push of the Trump administration addressed only violence against homosexuals, why prioritize individuals known for their bad sexual choices?
When I think about violence and homosexuality, the first thought coming to my mind is not individuals suffering violence for their sexual lifestyle. The first thinking is children suffering homosexual violence — physical and psychological. There is a massive effort to cover up the suffering of children in the hands of homosexual predators.
The Catholic Church is a living evidence of the gravity of homosexual violence against children. Young men with hidden homosexual problems enter Catholic seminaries, and even though they are never delivered from their homosexual demons and vices, they become priests and bishops. The natural consequence is that their homosexuality eventually produces sexual violence against children.
If you cannot hinder even a Christian setting where there is homosexuality from committing sexual violence against children, how does the U.S. government expect to protect a homosexual culture known for making children especially vulnerable to sexual abuse?
I have no doubt that George Washington, the first U.S. president known for discharging dishonorably a soldier because of his homosexual behavior, would never accept a “LGBTI Pride Month” in the State Department. Instead, he would launch a “Month of Protection of Children Against Homosexual Propaganda and Violence.” He would also launch a push to encourage nations to protect children and teens from homosexual propaganda and its psychological and physical violence.
Putin’s Russia has given a very good example by enacting in 2013 a law banning homosexual propaganda to children. The Obama administration, which was busy celebrating homosexuality in its State Department and engaged in efforts to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, growled at the Russian law and used the Ukrainian issue as a pretext to impose sanctions on Russia.
With Trump, my expectation was that he would use the U.S. government to do much more than Russia against the powerful homosexual agenda and its predatory threat to children. Yet, in many ways and year after year Trump, his administration and his State Department are doing more and more to imitate Obama and his obsession to celebrate homosexuality.
Obama never was worried about children and their protection against the predatory threat of homosexual propaganda. Trump and “evangelical” Pompeo never showed any such worry too. No “Month of Protection of Children Against Homosexual Propaganda and Violence.”
All of them are interested in protecting a predatory sexual behavior that brought God’s judgment to Sodom as an example of societies that would choose homosexuality as their official lifestyle. The U.S., under Obama and Trump, are not only celebrating and protecting this perverted lifestyle, but the Obama administration worked and the Trump administration has been working to spread the celebration and protection of this lifestyle that even today is bringing big curses to the Catholic Church and eventually bring bigger curses and destruction to societies that insist on embracing what God has always condemned.
God has said,
“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22 ESV)
“What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities.” (Jude 1:7 GWV)
May evangelicals who elected Trump pray for him to stop imitating Obama. And may they ask him to oust homosexual activist Richard Grenell from his administration and “evangelical” Mike Pompeo from his State Department and appoint evangelicals who may be able to celebrate a “Month of Protection of Children Against Homosexual Propaganda and Violence” in the State Department and launch an international push with such good example.
Conservatives and evangelicals, in the U.S. and around the world, expect no less than this from America.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Administration Sees Catholic Church as Potential Opposition


Brazil’s Bolsonaro Administration Sees Catholic Church as Potential Opposition

By Julio Severo
The Bolsonaro administration in Brazil wants to restrain, according to Brazilian newspaper EstadĂŁo, what it considers the opposition of the Catholic Church, in the vacuum of the defeat and loss of the Workers’ Party and other left-wing parties. In the evaluation of officials of President Jair Bolsonaro, the Catholic Church is a traditional ally of the Workers’ Party (WP) and it is articulating itself to influence debates previously dominated by WP in the countryside of Brazil and in suburbs.
The alert to the Bolsonaro administration came from reports of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) and military leaders. These reports have mentioned recent meetings of Brazilian cardinals with Pope Francis in the Vatican.
“We are worried and we want to neutralize it,” said Augusto Heleno, chief minister of the Institutional Security Office (ISO), who heads the counter-offensive.
Based on documents circulating within the Bolsonaro administration, the ISO’s military officials have judged that left-leaning sectors of the Catholic Church, members of the so-called “progressive clergy,” intend to take advantage of meetings with the pope to criticize the Bolsonaro administration and get international impact.
“We think this is interference in Brazil’s internal affairs,” said Heleno. As a reaction, ISO plans to involve, according to EstadĂŁo, the Itamaraty [the Brazilian foreign affair ministry], which is under the control of an olavete, to monitor Brazilian Catholic leaders during their trips to the Vatican.
As soon as Abin’s first communication reached the top officials of the Bolsonaro administration, generals immediately made a connection with the criticism of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (NCBB) to Bolsonaro during the election campaign. Groups linked to the NCBB, such as the Indigenous Missionary Council and the Land Pastoral Commission, spared no attacks, which continued after Bolsonaro’s election and inauguration. All of them are historical allies of the Workers’ Party. The Prison Pastoral, for example, issued a press release last week criticizing the anticrime measures of the Minister of Justice, SĂ©rgio Moro, who, as judge, condemned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Car Washing operation.
In the electoral campaign, Land Pastoral issued a report by Bishop AndrĂ© de Witte of Bahia, who mentioned Bolsonaro as a “real danger.” Bolsonaro’s support networks countered by spreading on the internet that Pope Francisco was “communist.”
Although considering himself Catholic, Bolsonaro was unable to obtain the support of the NCBB, which is Brazil’s largest Catholic force, but invested heavily and incessantly in the support of evangelicals, especially Rev. Silas Malafaia, during the elections.
However, after getting elected, he abandoned his preference for evangelicals and opted for placing above evangelicals militant olavetes, as adherents of astrologer Olavo de Carvalho are called. Because of this change of preference, several ministries of great importance became a source of jobs to olavetes, just as in the past they were a source of jobs to socialist militants.
The only evangelical in high level in the Bolsonaro administration is Pastor Damares Alves, who heads the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights. But she, as an evangelical, is visibly disadvantaged compared to the large number of olavetes in more important government positions. It is a harmful disadvantage, on the part of the Bolsonaro administration, as it goes directly against its evangelical voters, who are seen by astrologer Carvalho as worse than Marxists, according to his statement in September 2018.
The Bolsonaro administration and its intelligence agencies, especially Abin, correctly analyzed when they saw the Catholic Church as a potential opponent. There is a Catholic tradition of connection to the left occurring not only in Brazil but also throughout Latin America. The most Catholic countries in Latin America are, coincidentally or not, also the most socialist. Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia are ultra-Catholic countries that have experienced a strong leftist advance precisely because of leftist Catholic influence.
Brazil has not fallen into this leftist-Catholic tradition because of the advance of evangelical churches, which supported Bolsonaro because they saw conservative qualities in him, especially in the issues of abortion and homosexuality, which are aligned with their conservative, Bible-based views.
This conservative trend is by no means unique to Brazil. It is seen throughout Latin America, where countries influenced by evangelical conservatism lead their governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem. A major example is Guatemala, the first nation in Latin America, and the second country in the world after the United States, to move its embassy to Jerusalem. The president of Guatemala is evangelical and almost 50 percent of the Guatemalan population today is evangelical. The more evangelical a country is, the more conservative and pro-Israel it is.
Bolsonaro did very well by rejecting the radicalism of left-wing Catholics, especially the NCBB.
Yet, by giving preference to olavetes, who are syncretic Catholics who embrace a kind of esoteric fascism, to the detriment of evangelicals who strongly supported him, Bolsonaro is playing a strange game with his constituents. This game involves manipulation and opportunism.
If it is not right to give preference to evangelical supporters, why give preference to olavetes’ fascism, which defends the Inquisition, who tortured and killed Jews and Protestants?
If Bolsonaro thought that astrologer Carvalho was enough to elect him, why before the election did he give preference to evangelicals? After his election was won, why did he change his stance, giving preference to olavetes?
If it was not right for former socialist presidents Lula and Dilma to turn the Brazilian government into a big source of jobs for left-wing militants, why would it now be right to turn the Brazilian government into a big source of jobs for olavete militants?
In addition, there is the problem of external interference. Steve Bannon said last week that a senior Bolsonaro government official “is not helpful and is unpleasant.” Such interference by Bannon in Brazilian politics occurred after his meeting with the astrologer Carvalho. Both Bannon and the Brazilian astrologer, who is a self-exiled immigrant in the United States, are adherents of the Islamic occultist RenĂ© GuĂ©non. Bannon, who became persona non grata in the Trump administration and in the conservative mainstream media after Trump expelled him from the White House, seeks to interfere in Brazil’s affairs now that the Bolsonaro administration has given so much space and job opportunities to olavetes.
If General Heleno thought that the left-wing conduct of the NCBB and the Vatican “is interference in the internal affairs of Brazil,” why think that the advance of esoteric fascism within the Bolsonaro administration promoted by two adherents of an Islamic sorcerer would be less interference?
You cannot have a healthy victory, in the fight against the NCBB’s leftism, by choosing esoteric fascism. The only healthy way to defeat the powerful Catholic left is to do what has been done throughout Latin America by a majority of conservative evangelical churches: Preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, healing the sick and casting out demons.
With information from EstadĂŁo.
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Monday, February 04, 2019

A Saudi Candy to America: A Saudi Sculpture and Flag Erected at the World Trade Center, Where 3,000 Americans Were Killed by Saudi Terrorists


A Saudi Candy to America: A Saudi Sculpture and Flag Erected at the World Trade Center, Where 3,000 Americans Were Killed by Saudi Terrorists

By Julio Severo
A sculpture celebrating the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia had been erected on the World Trade Center grounds on December, near the 9/11 memorial site. The exhibit included a Saudi flag.
Shaped to resemble a piece of candy, the nine-foot-tall statue bore the Saudi emerald flag emblazoned with the Arabic inscription, “There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet.”
The Saudi exhibit at the World Trade Center raised questions because of longstanding accusations directed toward Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks. In 2003, hundreds of families affected by theses attacks sued Saudi Arabia over its alleged involvement in harboring terrorism — given that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi. But the U.S. government squashed their suit.
The Saudi exhibit was set to remain at the World Trade Center until Feb. 28. But after protests, U.S. officials said that the exhibit would move to another location in New York.
Move to another location? This is not enough to change the fact that the Saudi exhibit is an insult to the memory of 3,000 Americans who were victims of Saudi terror.
Usually, a rapist who rapes children firstly offers them a candy and next rapes them. Saudis first “raped” America — if you can call 9/11 a terrorist “rape” — and now they offer America a symbolic candy! Devilishly “nice,” isn’t it?
There is only a problem in this analogy. America is not a vulnerable child at the mercy of a Muslim rapist. America not only is unafraid of wars, but even likes them. So it is no surprise that U.S. right-wing and left-wing presidents have been notoriously warmongers, in a lesser or greater degree. A minor problem with America awakens her always ready war machine to invade.
Why has Saudi Arabia never been invaded?
What hinders U.S. presidents — from Bush to Obama to Trump — from giving Saudi Arabia exactly what it deserves is the fact that the Saudi Islamic dictatorship is the greatest buyer of U.S. heavy arms. If it were not for this fact, Saudi Arabia would have been long ago bombed and invaded — not to mention that the U.S. government — from Bush to Obama to Trump — would stop shielding Saudi Arabia from lawsuits from American relatives of the 3,000 victims of the Saudi attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
It seems that the America controlled by neocons can waste 3,000 American lives, provided that in return she — actually, the neocons — gets a massive amount of cash — which the Saudis have been dutifully doing by purchasing untold billions in U.S. heavy weapons. If America gets really concerned about 3,000 American lives lost, she loses the deal. If she prizes the Saudi deal, she gets cash and a symbolic candy.
Certainly, when Saudi Arabia runs out of cash, neocons will keep Saudi Arabia accountable for all its crimes.
Meanwhile, America will welcome Saudi symbolic candies, provided that Saudi Arabia keeps buying tons of U.S. heavy arms.
Yet, my analogy about Saudi rape is not far away from reality. A WND (WorldNetDaily) headline says everything: “5 Saudi students flee U.S. before rape, murder trial.” Such blatant impunity is not happening under Obama, but under Trump, after he sold to the Saudis over 100 billion in arms. High cash blinds — and America suffers exactly this blindness. And what hope is there for such nation when even her powerful televangelists are blinded by the Saudi money?
With information from Fox News and Observer.
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