If you think there is not a threat to Christianity coming in the U.S. look at the bill the Brazilian Senate is considering. It already passed their house without debate. The homosexual perverts not only spread diseases of the body they apparently spread disease of the mind. And here I thought this country was 73 percent Catholic. Does Catholicism have any real moral influence anywhere in the world or is the whole religious act of Catholics just a show?
Brazilian law would prohibit Christian teaching on homosexuality
Rio de Janeiro, Jul 15, 2008 / 01:36 pm (CNA).- The Brazilian Senate is considering a bill approved unanimously and without debate by the country’s House of Representatives that aims to promote homosexuality and prohibit Christian teaching on the issue, under the guise of combating discriminatio
he bill would also impose prison sentences on any kind of moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices. In this way, “a priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained,” the association said.
I’m not suprised by this move at all. The gay parades in places like Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro are major sources of income to the local gov’t as well as businesses just like their annual carnivals. So it’s in their interest to give the LGBT perverts more rights. It’s “good” for the economy… That way they can allow for more of these perverted and lucrative activities to take place throughout the year. It also draws many rich (sex) tourists. For all the talk of discrimination and homophobia, the fact is that homosex is BIG business.
However, I think that the majority of Latin Americans still isn’t that permissive of homosexuality though, thanks to the influence of Catholicism or other groups of Christians, and the machismo in Latin culture. Mexico’s president Calderon is a practising Catholic and a staunch social (and fiscal) conservative. Honduras has banned same-sex unions and same-sex “marriage” in their constitution since 2005. It remains a taboo in most other Latin American countries, including in those that have already adopted some form of anti-discrimination laws. Sometimes the situation is rather dubious, with the country having some anti-discrimination laws but the police disrupting gay parades and queers being banned from the military (as it should be).
I suspect that one of the “whitest” and most anti-American countries in Latin America, Argentina, will be one of the first to give queers full legal recognition and grant them the right to marry. Most of the Central American and some Andean countries will probably be the last to do so. I think that in most of these countries there will always remain a significant proportion of the people that will keep opposing it (e.g. Colombia).
In any case, the fact that even these traditionally social conservative countries are now adopting anti-discrimination laws and discussing legal recognition of same-sex couples tells us a whole lot about the times we live in.