Marie Carmen Aponte
Posted on 12/16/2011 2:07:09 PM PST by NYer
December 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. Senate has blocked the appointment of a controversial homosexual activist nominee to the position of ambassador to El Salvador, in a 49-37 vote that upheld a filibuster against a vote on the nomination.
The Associated Press acknowledged that nomination of Marie Carmen Aponte failed in large part because of her open support for the homosexual agenda in El Salvador, which sparked a protest to the U.S. Senate on the part of El Salvadoran civil organizations.
The White House immediately responded with a statement denouncing the blockage of the nomination. “Today’s filibuster is one more example of the type of political posturing and partisanship the American people are tired of seeing in Washington,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
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As LifeSiteNews reported in July, Aponte outraged pro-family organizations in El Salvador by writing an opinion article for the La Prensa Grafica newspaper in which she denounced “homophobia,” which she said was “based on the lack of understanding of what it really means to be homosexual or transgender.”
In the same piece, Aponte claimed that those who oppose the homosexual political agenda are motivated by “hate” and “prejudice.” Aponte also quoted Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s slogan that “Gay rights are Human Rights.”
Aponte wrote the article while serving temporarily in the post of ambassador following a recess appointment by President Barack Obama. The U.S. Constitution permits the president to temporarily appoint nominees that have not been approved by the Senate by the time it recesses.
A coalition of 22 pro-family organizations in El Salvador responded to the article with a written protest sent to the U.S. Senate, stating, “Madam Ambassador Aponte has abused her diplomatic status, showing a clear disdain concerning our values and cultural identity, claiming to ‘guide’ us toward a shift in our way of thinking so that we may accept multiple forms of sexual behavior as legitimate, in the same way that President Obama promotes.”
The Associated Press notes that in writing the article Aponte was following a directive from the State Department urging ambassadors to recognize “Gay Pride Month.” The Obama administration has since launched an international campaign to promote the gay agenda through its embassies.
Aponte’s tenure runs out at the end of the year, but President Obama will have the option to appoint her for another temporary period during the Senate recess over the Christmas holidays, if the Senate does not definitively vote against her nomination before the recess.
Ping!
This administration is so far out in left field that they’ll drag up every radical lunatic they can find.
Typical left wing ideologues, telling everyone else how to run their lives and countries. But don’t you dare voice an opinion on it.
Maybe Hill enjoyes her “carpet grazing” but most of the rest of the world finds it revolting!
That's right,send a flaming in your face bull dyke to a Catholic country to represent us...
...so so stupid.
If I misunderstood, then perhaps he could appoint her to that position, if he doesn't get her to be The Ambassador of El Salvador!
If I misunderstood, then perhaps he could appoint her to that position, if he doesn't get her to be The Ambassador of El Salvador!
I have rarely met more hateful, mean, vindictive and spiteful people than gays.
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Please note JPG's comment about no more recess appointments. The fiend in the White House and his fellow thugs are the worst administration in our country's history. It's high time the Rs fight back in every way they legally can.
I neither hate nor am I prejudiced against the disease ridden queers, I don't want them representing me in any capacity. Living in Illinois, I already have a homo Senator, Mark Kirk. One's too many.
Appointments like this are not to advance America’s interest, they are to increase campaign contributions from gays to Obama. Evil.
Does Obama really know these people and if not how the H E 2 sticks does he find them
The only thing that would make her better in the eyes of our traitor in chief would be if she supported NAMBLA.
No-—they are trying to normalize homosexuality like it is in Afghanistan where our troops are told to look the other way when they sodomize the boys and women.
The homosexual mafia is the strongest group in America—a sodomite is CIC and they will normalize sodomy as it is in Afghanistan.
Homosexual cultures are evil and ugly—it is all about demeaning human bodies and destroying any meaning in the sexual act. It is the Marxist (Hays=communist, Friedan=communist) agenda to destroy the family so little kids are wards of the state or perverts. It will destroy the moral character (Judeo/Christian Ethic) which made Western Civilization superior to all other ideologies.
Worldview is formed healthily ONLY in one man, one women household-—children learn what is normal (reality) and they learn how to deal in future relationships with both men and women. Lesbians raise boys (Tyler) who want to mutilate their pen*s because they learn to hate males—they have no healthy loving male role model. Now the “boy” is 8 and given toxic drugs so he wont develop naturally. This artificial world of homosexuals for children is deadly and perverts little boys worldviews—exactly like muslim societies do—hate women, love sodomy and harem of boys.
Actually lesbians have a very low STD rate.
The dems are all the same. In the earlier quiet social agenda years, FDR sent an Irish Catholic, Joe Kennedy, as an ambassador to England. One would consider that a slap in the face. It became an embarrassment when Kennedy began telling FDR the Brits would fold and the Nazi’s would win the war.
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