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Leftist activists to greet pope with gay ‘kiss-in’, SlutWalk protests in Rio

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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 24, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Gay rights and feminist groups are planning to stage protests during Pope Francis' stay in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day. The pope has already been subjected to a homosexual "kiss-in" along the papal motorcade route on Monday when he arrived in Rio. Video clips from the protest on July 22 showed lip-locked demonstrators, some of them topless, while others waved rainbow flags, according to a U.S.News report . Various media reports say that a gay rights group is planning another "beijaco" or kiss-in during a speech Pope Francis will give on Copacabana beach on July 25. The group is protesting against the Catholic Church ’s stance on homosexuality and gay “marriage.”  Pope Francis greets the crowds in Rio after his arrival Monday. Meanwhile, a group of Brazilian feminists, the Brazilian Women Association, is planning a " SlutWalk " to be staged on Copacabana beach on July 27, to pr

Three-person ‘stable union’ registered in Brazil

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August 29, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Two women and a man living together in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo have registered their relationship as a “stable union,” according to local media sources. The action follows a decision by the nation’s Supreme Tribunal to allow homosexuals to enter into such unions, despite the fact that they are defined in the Constitution as a union between a man and a woman. The decision led to a lower court decision extending the eligibility for homosexuals to marriage itself, although the verdict has not yet been recognized throughout Brazil . “Stable unions” exist in Brazil to regulate cohabiting couples who are unmarried. The homosexualist Brazilian Family Institute (IBDFAM), which openly favors polygamous unions as well as same-sex ones, welcomed the most recent decision. “We have to respect the private nature of relationships and learn to live in this pluralistic society recognizing different desires,” said the group’s vice-preside

LSN reporter Matthew Hoffman speaks to Brazilians about dangers of homosexual movement

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  Latin America Correspondent Matthew Cullinan Hoffman has recently returned from a two-week Brazilian speaking tour on the dangerous rise of the homosexual movement and its link to the corrupted sexual morals of heterosexuals. Hoffman spoke to a large number of Catholic bishops and priests, as well as Evangelical ministers and laity, who received his message with gratitude. Three of the talks were live-streamed on the internet and a fourth was recorded for possible distribution by a Protestant family ministry. Hoffman speaks at the Campos dos Afonsos Baptist Church in Rio de Janeiro . Two of the talks can be found  here  beginning at 1:03:30, and here  at 15:20 (the second talk lacked audio until that moment). “The topic of homosexuality has become a very sensitive topic in recent years,” noted Hoffman in his opening remarks. “The reason tha Image by Getty Images via @daylife t it a sensitive topic is that the homosexual movement has been very successful in its approach, in its p