Friday, May 27, 2011

Following outcry, Brazilian president cancels homosexual indoctrination kit in nation’s schools

Following outcry, Brazilian president cancels homosexual indoctrination kit in nation’s schools

BRAZIL, May 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has agreed to eliminate a very explicit United Nations approved kit designed to convince children and adolescents to accept homosexual behavior and transsexualism, following threats from Protestant and Catholic legislators to block new legislation in protest.
The “anti-homophobia kit,” which was part of the “Schools without Homophobia” sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, included videos showing a cartoon of a child masturbating while fantasizing about sex with a man, adolescents who enter into homosexual relationships, and a “transsexual” student who calls himself “Bianca.”
In the original video, the “Bianca” character reportedly becomes sexually aroused at the sight of another male student urinating in the bathroom, although this scene was apparently removed later, along with an another image showing two girls kissing on the lips.  The program also supplied students with games, toys, and musical lyrics, all designed to normalize homosexuality and other sexual deviations.  Despite the minor modifications made to the materials, they have continued to spark outrage from parents and pro-family activists.
Under massive pressure from a high-profile Internet campaign and from legislators, Rousseff capitulated, and one congressional ally reported that she regarded the kit as “horrific” and “the end of the world.”
“I’m not in agreement with the kit, because I don’t think that it defends non-homophobic practices,” Rousseff said publicly. “I didn’t watch the videos, but I saw part of one of them on television and I don’t agree with it.”
“We cannot interfere with the private lives of people,” Rousseff continued. “There will not be authorization for this type of policy of defending A, B, C, or D. However, the government can teach that it is necessary to respect differences and that you can’t use violence against those who are different from you.”
Before retracting the materials, the government had boasted of the approval it had received for the kit from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which had judged the videos “suitable” for the target audience, which is reported to reach children as young as 11 years of age.
“The material of the Schools without Homophobia project is suitable for the age groups and the affective-cognitive development for which it is targeted,” UNESCO wrote, according to a Brazilian government website.
The cancellation of the kit, which has caused controversy in Brazil for over half a year, has made headlines across the country.  Revelations that the government has spent over a million of dollars of public money on the kit have also added fuel to the fire.
The removal of the kit represents another major blow against the socialist government’s long-standing anti-life and anti-family policies.
The Brazilian Labor Party, led by the popular presidents Luiz Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, his handpicked successor, have consistently advocated the decriminalization of abortion and policies that would punish those who speak out against homosexuality. However, Rousseff found her presidential aspirations threatened last year when pro-family forces emphasized her party’s record on human life and family issues, forcing her to sign an agreement not to promote her party’s agenda.
Public opinion polls, as well as polls of congressional representatives, have also indicated a strengthening of the pro-life and pro-family positions in the Brazilian electorate.
Although Roussef has been careful to indicate her rejection of the kit, her Women’s Policies minister has taken a more defiant tone.
“The program for confronting homophobia is a definitive program. It will not suffer setbacks. The government of President Dilma [Rouseff] is committed to the issue of rights. The president has demonstrated that in all of her acts,” said chief minister Iriny Lopes.
Rousseff’s education minister Fernando Haddad promised to return to the schools with new materials in a matter of months, after a further consultation with “specialists.” The kit reportedly will be reformulated by the same homosexualist non-governmental organizations that created the current program.
Julio Severo, one of Brazil’s most influential pro-family activists, is warning that the administration will continue to push the homosexual agenda, and urges Catholics and Evangelical Protestants to continue fighting.
“Whether or not Dilma has retreated, the Catholic and Evangelical leadership should not retreat,” writes Severo, adding that “above all, it is necessary to unmask and combat the campaign that, in the name of fighting against ‘homophobia’ is combating the Christian majority of Brazil and the mothers and father who want to protect their children form every type of immoral assault.”
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Brazilian president suspends distribution of 'anti-homophobia kit'

Brazilian president suspends distribution of 'anti-homophobia kit'

The president of Brazil has decided to suspend the distribution of a controversial “anti-homophobia kit” to public school students after protests from evangelical and Catholic congressional representatives.
The kit included a video featuring a 14-year-old boy named Ricardo who “falls in love” with a fellow student when he sees him urinating in the school restroom. The same boy is shown later receiving call from his teacher and telling her he wants to be called “Bianca” now instead of Ricardo.
The video also shows two 13-year-old girls announcing their lesbian relationship to the entire class with the kiss.
The kit was created by the country's Ministry of Education and cost $2 million to produce.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff recalled the kit after concluding that a video included in the materials was “inappropriate.”
Gilberto de Carvalho, a official in the Rousseff administration, said the president’s decision did not mean a shift in her pro-homosexual agenda. “This is a consultation process the government is undertaking, as it does in other areas as well, because this is part of the democratic process,” he said.
The administration “has decided that from now on any material that deals with social mores will be created with broader consultation,” Carvalho added.
Family expert Julio Severo said, “Despite the fact that Dilma (Rousseff) suspended the distribution of the gay kit, the federal government’s campaign against ‘homophobia’ will continue as normal in schools, as Carvalho said.”
Severo emphasized that whether or not Rousseff flip-flops on her policies, “Catholic and evangelical leaders should not.”
“We need to unmask and combat the campaigns that, in the name of the struggle against ‘homophobia,’ are combating the Christian majority of Brazil and mothers and fathers who wish to protect their children” from all types of immorality.
Source: EWTN News
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Sex education material with gay contents suspended by Brazilian president

Sex education material with gay contents suspended by Brazilian president

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has suspended the distribution and production of gay sex education films for schools in Brazil.

By Julio Severo
The education packs, which contain gay and lesbian video scenes, supposedly aim to combat homophobia.
Government spokesman Gilberto Carvalho said President Rousseff viewed the material personally and found the footage unsuitable for youngsters.
“She didn’t like what she saw,” Carvalho said. So she decided to suspend its distribution.
However, her reaction came after evangelical and Catholic parliamentarians and their allies in the Brazilian Congress threatened to block any upcoming legislation unless President Rousseff halted the films. They also threatened to support investigative commissions on the minister of Education, his Ministry and another powerful minister, who has been exposed for corruption.
Carvalho said President Rousseff was not, however, discontinuing anti-“homophobia” programs in the public schools.
The “gay kits”, as they are known in Brazil, were produced for the Brazilian Ministry of Education by ABGLT, the largest homosexualist group in Brazil, which received more than one million dollars in government grants to make them. ECOS, another (US-funded) Brazilian NGO that helped make them, also received more than one million dollars. The exposing of this multi-million dollar partnership in a recent Brazilian television news program produced a scandal that rocked the government plan to distribute “gay kit” to all the Brazilian schools.
Matthew Hoffman, in a LifeSiteNews report, said the kits, aimed at “children between the ages of 7 and 12 years, were designed to encourage acceptance of homosexuality. The kits reportedly include a DVD with a story about a fourteen-year-old who goes to the bathroom, and becomes sexually aroused while watching another student urinate in the stall next to him”.
Several members of the Brazilian Congress said the sex education packs encourage homosexual behavior. Even Reinaldo Azevedo, a prominent Catholic social columnist favoring gay “marriage” and child adoption by gays, said that “the gay kit aims to promote sexual harassment against heterosexual children”.
In response, ABGLT has launched a fierce campaign to defend its kits, calling its opposers “homophobic”.
With information from BBC and LifeSiteNews.
Source: Julio Severo in English:
More information on ABGLT, the NGO that made the gay kit:

Friday, May 13, 2011

Prophetic blogging

Prophetic blogging

Blogs as tools to express the voice of God’s Kingdom

By Julio Severo
A few days ago I received a message from a visitor who recently became acquainted with my blog:
Julio, how are you?
Last Tuesday (26/April/2011) I was having a nap at lunch time and a name came to me in a dream. I am not in the habit of writing down my dreams, but the name was very clear. I woke up and wrote down the name: JULIO SEVERO.
I had never heard your name before and when I got home I googled it and saw that you are also a Christian and that you fight to preserve Gospel principles from corruption.
Well, I do not believe in coincidences…
I do not believe in coincidences either, at least not this kind.
In my interview with Christianismo Hoje* (the Brazilian version of the magazine Christiany Today) I said,
Early in 1995 I clearly felt God directing me to write a book about the threat posed by the homosexual movement. For weeks, I hesitated, because the homosexual issue was a formidable taboo. There were no gay parades in Brazil, and none of the homosexual obsession we see everywhere today, in the schools, the media, etc. After some time, I overcame my fears, accepted the calling of the Spirit, and began to research the homosexual movement. When, by mid-1995, the first international conference of ILGA in the South Hemisphere was held in Brazil, I understood God’s plan to call me into the battle, because after the conference, Brazilian gay groups made an extraordinary push to advance their agenda. God anticipated this spiritual assault from hell with an action of the agenda of God’s Kingdom. Thus my book “O Movimento Homossexual” (The Homosexual Movement), was born and was published by Editora Betânia, the Brazilian branch of Bethany House Publishers, in1998.
When my book “O Movimento Homossexual” was published in 1998, many thought it was an exaggeration and said that forecasts would never come true. Sadly, they eventually did. And today its readers call me a prophet. The exaggerater of yesterday is today’s prophet.
In 1999, on receiving an autographed copy of my book “O Movimento Homossexual,” Bishop Robson Rodovalho said that he had received the revelation that in the future I would be severely persecuted because of the message of my book, and be forced to flee from place to place. It was an accurate prophecy, but I am sad that the one who delivered it eventually joined the political system that spawned PLC 122 and other absurdities. PLC 122 is the most threatening anti-“homophobia” bill in the Brazilian Congress.
In 2002, even without a blog, I began to warn against an electoral victory for socialist Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. In 2003, with just a page of articles in the Brazilian Christian website JesusSite, I revealed to Brazil for the first time that the Lula administration had introduced in the United Nations (UN) a resolution classifying homosexuality as an inalienable human right. This was the first time this kind of initiative had come before the UN.
After I reported on this, a Representative in the Brazilian Congress requested an accounting from the Brazilian government because Brazilian representatives at the UN were taking actions without the knowledge of the Brazilian people and Congress. There was also a petition against the Lula administration’s resolution. JesusSite suffered an attack by hackers and went down. Despite many threats it received pressuring the Christian website to remove my articles, JesusSite* stayed firm.
The pioneering resolution from the Lula administration in the UN never advanced, and ILGA, the largest homosexual organization in the world, complained that grass-roots resistance in Brazil stemming from “extremist” websites was helping to deter the resolution. Who said that today there are no little Davids to hinder massive Goliaths?
With the Lula administration’s obsessive pro-sodomy policies, the message of my book, which had been seen as exaggerated, was now coming into focus. Even congressmen were making references to my book in their official speeches in the Congress.
At the inspired insistence of a brother in the Mid-Night Call Ministry, I eventually created a blog at the beginning of 2005, with this brother guiding me in the first steps. The first year, I published very little.
Only later did I begin issung warnings to Brazil more regularly. And God honored me. At the same time, philosopher and Reformed theologian Harold O. J. Brown invited me to write the leading article in his academic periodical The Religion & Society Report. The essay was published in August 2006 and is available in an online version. This was the first time my watch dog ministry was acknowledged by a respectable international publication.
Through my blog, my still small voice was now showing the United States and the world the homosexualist face of Lula and his socialist ideology. Brown told me he did not realize that Lula was so radical, and he wanted to help people outside Brazil learn the truth.
In 2007, I was interviewed by LifeSiteNews, the largest Catholic pro-life news website in the world. It was my small voice echoing with immutable values that transcend frontiers.
Yet, as far as the performance of my simple blog is concerned, the most remarkable aspect in 2007 was the awareness effort against PLC 122, the anti-“homophobia” bill introduced by a member of PT (Lula’s party) in the Brazilian Congress. The bill sought to give government the power to exercise out and out thought control and would have criminalized any speech construed as “antigay.” It amounted to nothing less than a direct ban on biblical Christianity. In February 2007, a group of influential conservative Catholics contacted me to launch an awareness effort. They had read my writings on homosexuality, prepared a paper based on my articles and wanted me just to put my signature in it. Their role would be to spread the message. My role would be to lend my name.
The campaign made great strides. After March 2007, the awareness movement grew like wildfire and was soon unstoppable, having struck the consciences of many people. But there was a price to pay. The same year the campaign was launched, gay activists, in their effort to thwart me, managed to convince Google in Brazil to shut down my blog. With the intervention of Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, in an article in the paper Jornal do Brasil denouncing attacks against me, and protests from several lawyers, including an attorney who called Google, my blog came back online.  
Before February 2007, I had already intended to oppose PLC 122. Yet, in the months of November and December 2006 and January 2007, I was hiding in a refuge with my family, because of persecution.
Before this persecution, God had used a former homosexual to warn me that the devil was trying to destroy me. November happened to be the month that PLC 122 was approved in the House of Representatives in Brazil. Lacking the means to act, I dunned Dr. Zenóbio Fonseca for several weeks to write an article against the anti-“homophobia” bill, because his special legal knowledge was vital. His consulting work allowed him little time, but eventually he managed to write the article. Next, the Catholic message* to mobilize Brazilians was ready, and it was sent to countless thousands of email addresses and other media.
The sequel was that hundreds of blogs, not to mention thousands of people forwarding e-mails against PLC 122, became such a strong chain that the passage of this bill, which was taken for granted because of the influential and imposing support of government and media, eventually became uncertain, because of the resistance, particularly from Evangelical and Catholic blogs.
Catholic and Evangelical magazines — with a shallow Christianity and deep-rooted political ideologies — either ignored the story or gave it short shrift. Had it been up to them, Brazil would today be in thrall to the Kingdom of the Workers’ Party, of Dilma Rousseff and her antecessor Lula, with the passage of PLC 122 hovering like a sword over the heads of prophetic Christians.
Yet, blogs speaking with the voice of God’s Kingdom are having a major impact in opposing the massive power of magazines, papers and TV channels that mirror — and are paid to mirror — the voice representing the ideology and system of state idolatry.
And unlike evangelical TV shows, which ignore or fail to denounce the government’s promotion of aberrations like PLC 122, pro-family blogs are not afraid to speak out against state threats.
The strong resistance to PLC 122 today is a symbol of what can happen when humble little blogs serve as a vehicle for the voice of God’s Kingdom. If one blog makes a lot of people uncomfortable, a host of blogs united in the same effort much more effectively spread the uncomfortable truth that shakes people into action.
In the wilderness of disinformation from magazines, newspapers and blogs that reflect the voice of the political machine and its ideology, God can lead, even through dreams, those who need to know the truth.
This is the value God gives blogs that carry His voice.
Do you want be used by God through a blog? Hear and mirror His voice.
Reviewed by Don Hank.
* These are Portuguese links. Links without an asterisk are English links.
Portuguese version of this article: Blogagem profética
Spanish version of this article: Blogging profético
Source: Julio Severo in English
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

PLC 122: the anti-“homofobia” bill in the Brazilian Congress

PLC 122: the anti-“homofobia” bill in the Brazilian Congress

Following is the complete bill PLC 122. It was approved in the House of Representatives in 2006 and since then it is in the Brazilian Senate. The strong resistance from the Brazilian people has delayed government efforts to approve it in the Senate.
FINAL COMPOSITION
BILL 5.003-B, of 2001
It alters Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, which defines crimes provoked by prejudice of race or skin color, puts new wording to § 3 of the article 140 of the Law 2.848, of December 7, 1940 — Penal Code, and to the article 5 of the Labor Consolidation Laws, approved by the Law 5.452, of May 1, 1943, and enforces other measures.
NATIONAL CONGRESS decrees:
Article 1: This Law alters Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, Law 2.848, of December 7, 1940 — Penal Code, and the Labor Consolidation Laws, approved by the Law 5.452, of May 1, 1943, defining crimes provoked by discrimination or prejudice of gender, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Article 2: The amendment to the Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, is now put in force with the following wording:
“It defines crimes provoked by discrimination or prejudice of race, skin color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity”. (NR)
Article 3: The caput of the article 1 of the Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, is put now in force with the following wording:
“Article 1: Crimes provoked by discrimination or prejudice of race, skin color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity will be punished, in the form of this Law”. (NR)
Article 4: Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, is now put in force with of the addition of the following article 4-A:
“Article 4 — Direct or indirect actions of dismissal by an employer or his representative: Penalty: between 2 (two) and 5 (five) years of incarceration”.
Article 5: Articles 5, 6 and 7 of the Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, are now put in force with the following wording:
“Article 5: To hinder, refuse or prohibit the entrance or permanence in any public or private setting or establishment, open to the public: Penalty: between 1 (one) and 3 (three) years of incarceration”. (NR)
“Article 6: To Refuse, deny, hinder, ignore, prejudice, defer or exclude, in any system of educational selection, enrollment or professional promotion: Penalty: between 3 (three) and 5 (five) years of incarceration. Sole paragraph. (Revoked)” (NR)
“Article 7: To overtax, refuse, ignore or hinder the lodging in hotels, motels, boarding houses or similar places: Penalty: between 3 (three) and 5 (five) years of incarceration”. (NR)
Article 6: Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, is now put in force with the addition of the following article 7-A:
“Article 7: To overtax, refuse, ignore or hinder the rent, purchase, acquisition, leasing or loan of real state or equipment of any purpose: Penalty: between 2 (two) and 5 (five) years of incarceration”.
Article 7: Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, is now put in force with the addition of the following articles 8-A and 8-B:
“Article 8-A: To hinder or restrict the expression and manifestation of affection in public or private places open to all people, because of characteristics foreseen in the 1st article of this Law: Penalty: between 2 (two) and 5 (five) years of incarceration”.
“Article 8-B: To forbid the free expression and manifestation of affection of a homosexual, bisexual or transgender citizen, when these expressions and manifestations are allowed to other citizens: Penalty: between 2 (two) and 5 (five) years of incarceration”.
Article 8: Articles 16 and 20 of the Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, are now put in force with the following wording:
“Article 16. Consequences to violators:
I — The loss of the public position or job, for federal employees;
II — Disqualification for contracts with agencies directly or indirectly associated to the federal government;
III — No access to credits granted by the government and its financial institutions or to development programs instituted or maintained by them;
IV — No exemption, suspension, amnesty or any benefits in taxes;
V — Fines of up to 10.000 (ten thousand) UFIRs, which can be multiplied up to 10 (ten) times in case of recidivism, being taken into account the offender’s financial capacity;
VI — Suspension of the operation of the establishments for a period up to 3 (three) months.
§ 1 Resources coming from the fines established by this Law will be destined to educational efforts against discrimination.
§ 2 When the illicit action is practiced by those having contract, concession and permission from the government, besides the individual responsibilities, the penalty of rescission of the contract, agreement or permission will be added.
§ 3 In any case, the period for disqualification will be 12 (twelve) months, counted from the date of the application of the sanction.
§ 4 The cadastral information and the references invoked as justifying a discrimination will be always accessible to all those that are subject to selective process, where their participation is concerned”. (NR)
“Art. 20. To practice, induce or incite discrimination or prejudice of race, skin color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity:
§ 5 What is determined in this article involves the practice of any kind of violent, constraining, threatening or humiliating action, of moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological order”. (NR)
Article 9: Law 7.716, of January 5, 1989, is now put in force with the addition of the following articles 20-A and 20-B:
“Article 20-A. The practice of the discriminatory actions referred to in this Law will be investigated in an administrative and penal process, which will be initiated by:
I — complaint by an offended individual;
II – formal notification by a competent authority;
III – notification by non-government organizations of defense of citizenship and human rights”.
“Art. 20-B. The interpretation of the determinations of this Law and of all of the normative means for protection of the rights of equality of opportunity and treatment will meet the principle of the widest protection of the human rights.
§ 1 In that intention, compliance is to be given not only to the principles and rights foreseen in this Law, but also to all of the determinations of international treaties or conventions which Brazil is signatory of, to the national legislation and administrative determinations.
§ 2 For interpretation and application of this Law, compliance is to be given, whenever is more favorable to the antidiscrimination fight, to the guidelines made by the International Courts of Human Rights, properly recognized by Brazil”.
Article 10. § 3 of the article 140 of the Law 2.848, of December 7, 1940 — Penal code, is now put in force with the following wording:
“Article 140.
§ 3 If an offense concerns the use of elements referring to race, skin color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, or old age or deficiency of an individual: Penalty: between 1 (one) and 3 (three) years of incarceration and fine”. (NR)
Article 11. Article 5 of the Consolidation of the Labor Laws — CLL, approved by the Law 5.452, of May 1, 1943, is now put in force added of the following only paragraph:
“Article 5
Sole paragraph. It is forbidden any discriminatory and limiting practice regarding to access to a job, or its maintenance, because of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, origin, race, skin color, marital status, family situation or age. The only exception is the hypotheses of protection to minors foreseen in the clause XXXIII of the caput of the article 7 of the Federal Constitution”. (NR)
Art. 12. This Law goes into effect in the date of its publication.
House of Representatives, November 23, 2006.
Relator
Translation: Julio Severo
To understand how this threatening bill has been resisted in Brazil, read this article by Julio Severo:

Monday, May 09, 2011

Brazil supreme court defies Constitution, grants homosexual civil unions

Brazil supreme court defies Constitution, grants homosexual civil unions

BRASILIA, May 6, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal has ruled that homosexual unions are equivalent to the “stable unions” of heterosexuals under national law, despite the Brazilian Constitution’s clear limitation of such unions to heterosexual couples.
“Stable unions,” which are roughly equivalent to “civil unions” in English-speaking countries, are arrangements “between a man and a woman”  who live together “as a family entity” according to article 226 of the Brazilian Constitution. Couples in stable unions have access to over one hundred privileges also given to married couples.
But the judge who had principal charge over the case, Carlos Ayres Britto, justified extending the explicitly heterosexual language to homosexual couples based on the Constitution’s prohibition of discrimination based on sex, and the fact that the Constitution does not prohibit homosexual relations.
“In the understanding of the judge, if gay unions are not prohibited by Brazilian legislation, they are automatically permitted, and because homosexual unions are permitted, they should have the same rights guaranteed for stable unions of heterosexuals,” wrote the Brazilian newspaper Estadao to summarize Britto’s reasoning.
Maria Berenice Dias, vice president of the Brazilian Institute of Family Law, told the press that the decision would extend to homosexual couples 112 rights and benefits that were formerly only recognized for heterosexual couples in stable unions.
The new ruling is expected to grant homosexual couples a stronger legal basis for adopting children, as well as partner pension benefits, inheritance rights, tax benefits, social insurance benefits, and even days off following the initiation of the union.
The court’s ruling comes after years of failed attempts by homosexualist organizations and politicians to establish gay civil unions through the national legislature.
As LifeSiteNews recently reported, a strong majority of Brazilians, 60 percent, reject the establishment of such unions. Their representatives have repeatedly voted against homosexual civil union legislation.
Conservatives complained that the homosexualist lobby would stop at nothing to force their agenda into law despite public opposition.
“To those who defend abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’ the means employed to achieve their goals is of little importance,” wrote pro-family activist Fr. Luiz Lodi da Cruz in mid-April, before the decision was issued.
“If the National Congress, composed of representatives of the people, refuses to approve a bill that permits abortion…or a ‘civil union,’ ‘registered couple’ or ‘marriage’ for people of the same sex…they will have recourse to the judiciary to substitute for the legislature.”
Divulgation: Julio Severo in English: