Posts

Showing posts with the label Dominican Republic

Dominican Catholic school bars US ambassador who brings his ‘husband’ on school visits

Image
The signs banning U.S. Ambassador James W. Brewster and his same-sex partner from St. John the Baptist College have gone down, but only, according to the high school’s highly influential principal Father Manuel Ruiz, for Holy Week. “The entry of the United States ambassador is not allowed in this Institute San Juan Bautista,” said all three signs, the first of which appeared above the Santo Domingo private school last Monday. The controversy over the signs is just the latest expression of the outrage felt by Catholic and Evangelical Protestant leaders at what they see as Brewster’s promotion of the homosexual agenda since being sworn in as ambassador in 2013, the same day the LGBT activist “married” his long time companion Bob J. Satawake. “He is violating our law every time he visits a school with his husband." “He is violating our law every time he visits a school with his husband,” Fidel Lorenzo, leader of the 9,000-church Dominican Council of Evangelical Unity told L...

Dominican Republic ‘Black Monday’ protest against Obama’s homosexual-activist ambassador

Image
The outrage of Dominican religious leaders to the Obama administration’s appointment of a homosexual activist as ambassador to the country has sparked a call for a nation-wide protest, dubbed " Black Monday ," to take place July 15. Christian leaders are asking people to wear a black arm band, to show a black banner or ribbon on cars, or to dress entirely in black on Monday, to show that the public rejects the US State Department's promotion of its homosexual agenda in their country. While US embassy spokesman Daniel Foote, currently the acting ambassador to the Dominican Republic , denied that James "Wally" Brewster would promote the US administration's homosexual agenda, saying in a brief statement to the media that "Brewster arrives as an ambassador, he's not coming here as an activist for the gay community," and stressing that Brewster was nominated because of his skills as an international businessman and his ideas on democrac...