Anglican Mainstream

I was intrigued to discover the existence of Julio Severo, a young Christian activist whose prophetic voice speaks to the world from Brazil. What has happened with Julio and others there reveals what is ultimately at stake and what will eventually emerge elsewhere, bar a miracle. I had often puzzled over disconcerting bits of news from that country; now, however, the dots connect. In many ways the gay agenda has had greatest success there and become a powerful, developed, operational force in the country at the institutional level. Those who continue to hope (against the odds!) that the gay agenda will not negatively impact Christian witness should take note. What has happened this past summer in Brazil must alarm all people concerned with religious or even basic civil liberty issues. Email addresses and phone numbers are at the end of the middle two articles, if you wish to respond.

For my readers, I would highlight the following trends from Brazil which are starting to appear elsewhere:

-The formal adoption of and advocacy for gay rights by political parties
-The massive influence wielded by gay activists within government itself
-The growing role of the state in the imposition of the gay agenda on a sometimes-recalcitrant population
-The increasing criminalization of being ‘anti-gay’ in public and semi-public spaces
as well as
-The continually-repeated mantra of ‘gay-as-victim’, mythology which works its magic every time!
-The reiteration of white-washed, positive gay narrative, one of the results of which serves to soften the ‘narrow, rigid’ views of disapproving ‘homophobes’
-The normalization and legitimization of homosexuality through granting it a respectable historical heritage
-The reluctance to address the explosive issue of man-boy sex
-The tiny numbers who dare dispute the gay ‘party line’ in public and the high price they pay
-The lack of corporate support for these brave souls, and in fact, the deliberate distancing from and marginalization by certain Christian denominations, churches and organizations. Some of these groups have been ‘got at’ and now say nothing or are positively gay-’friendly’; others are still orthodox in their ethics but keep well below the parapet because the cost is too high
-The professional disciplinary codes now in place against Christian psychologists who are able to help those who wish to exit the gay scene
and finally,
-The extraordinary ignorance of many ‘in the middle’ as to what is happening all around them

Sunday, June 03, 2007
Brazilian minister persecuted for alerting on the homosexual agenda
By Julio Severo

http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com/2007/06/brazilian-minister-persecuted-for.html

For more on Brazil see

Leader of Brazil Homosexual Movement Under Investigation for Pedophilia
Plan to Shut Down Blog of Brazil Pro-Family Leader Backfires
30 July 2007
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman (LifeSiteNews.com)

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07073011.html

and more recently – and worryingly,

Brazilian Gay Groups Launch Multiple Lawsuits to Silence Christian Opposition
Flurry of Lawsuits is Attempt to Prevent Criticism of Homosexual Movement
29 August 2007
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman (LifeSiteNews.com)

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07083007.html

Finally, see the excellent HETEROPHOBIA: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT…
Wednesday June 14th 2006, 8:46 pm
By the Rt. Revd. Robinson Cavalcanti*

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=376

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