REAL Women oppose Canadian minister’s international gay rights crusade
OTTAWA, August 8, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Canada ’s outspoken women’s organization on life and family issues has slammed Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird for imposing what it says is “his own perspective on homosexuality” in foreign countries such as Uganda , Kenya, and Russia that have passed laws aimed at preserving the traditional family structure. John Baird (right) and friend “Just who does John Baird think he is, using taxpayers’ money to promote his own personal agenda and endeavouring to set standards of the laws of foreign countries?” asked Gwen Landolt, National Vice-President of REAL Women of Canada , in a press release yesterday. REAL Women criticized Baird for awarding $200,000 of Canadian taxpayers’ money by way of the Department of Foreign Affairs to special interest groups in Uganda and Kenya that promoted homosexual activity as a right. Last October Baird denounced Uganda at an international summit in Quebec City for violating gay righ