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In West Africa, Trudeau soft peddles his gvmt’s strident LGBT advocacy

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a two-day visit to the impoverished West African nation of Liberia this week by treading delicately around his government’s frank encouragement of homosexual and transgender status in Canada and internationally. Global Affairs Canada ’s website offers more than 130 links to projects around the world from Kashish to Manila and Dominica with which it is promoting homosexuality, but Trudeau shied from touting the issue in the heart of a region that is strongly opposed to that agenda. Yet he is signalling that he will advocate “ LGBT rights” in an address Saturday morning in Madagascar when speaking to La Francophonie , a consortium of the world’s nations with close ties to French language and culture. Trudeau came to Liberia to talk about the $11.5 million his government was spreading across West Africa over the next five years to advance the economic and social status of women. He encouraged the development of agriculture and c...

Africans will not accept Western push for gay ‘marriage’: cardinal

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Africans will not accept Western dictates to condone homosexuality and gay “marriage,” a Senegalese cardinal told the press prior to a meeting of West African bishops last month. “Beware...we are living in a world where the Western world , especially the Americans, behave like people who have to think for the rest of the world, they have to decide for the rest of the world,” said Cardinal Théodore Adrien Sarr , Archbishop Emeritus of Dakar , as reported by   Ghanaweb . “But we say that no, you can’t decide for the rest of the world,” added Sarr, past president of the Regional Conference of West Africa, which was meeting in the Ghanaian capital of Accra for its plenary. Africans must be careful to not be indoctrinated to accept same-sex “marriage,” Sarr warned. “We also have our culture, traditions and so we need to avoid the several limitations of the Western world,” said the 79-year-old cardinal. “We need to do things based in our traditions, our practices and cu...