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U.S. slams 'conservative gender norms'
WND ^ | Dec. 28, 2013 | Steve Peacock

Posted on 12/28/2013 7:59:06 PM PST by Steve Peacock

Obama agenda won't tolerate 'preference for heterosexuality' in other countries

Homosexuals, prostitutes, and transgendered people of Central America are about to receive another boost from the Obama administration, which is expanding an HIV program initially launched during the William J. Clinton presidency.

But chief among impediments to achieving U.S. policy goals in the region are “conservative gender norms related to sexuality and strong normative preference for heterosexuality,” a revised government planning document says.

Organizations that help “Most-at-Risk Populations,” or MARPs, therefore, will be the beneficiaries of this Phase Two initiative, according to the revised Statement of Work detailing the Central America Project for a Sustainable Response to HIV, or PASCA II...

[T]hanks to U.S.-taxpayer funded measures such as “condom and lubricant social marketing,” USAID already has helped spark behavior change among MARPs, the document explicitly says.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; centralamerica; hiv; homosexual; homosexualagenda; humanrights; lavendermafia; nannystate; obama; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; sexpositiveagenda; theuglyamerican
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To: gitmo

Thank you.


21 posted on 12/28/2013 9:13:06 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: Steve Peacock
If a "strong normative preference for heterosexuality" is antithetical to U.S. goals in the area, whatever they are, then maybe those goals ought to be what is under scrutiny here.

Words have meanings. "Norm" is heterosexual by so far a margin that it is scarcely worth pointing out except to people who want the word to mean something else. Neither does the word "deviate" carry a cachet of "gender" bigotry - that which deviates from the norm, is, well, deviate. That's it. That's what the word means.

It does not surprise me that an administration this taken with life in Fantasyland should indulge itself in this sort of semantic juggling act. However, let me make a simple observation: if health problems result from one sticking one's generative organ into someone else's rectal channel, perhaps the cause of those problems isn't bigotry. Just a thought.

22 posted on 12/28/2013 9:23:24 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Steve Peacock

Has America figured out that she’s accursed of God yet? He’s going to make it more and more obvious until it’s unmistakable.


23 posted on 12/28/2013 9:33:57 PM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Steve Peacock
It is obvious the Government wants a more receptive population for their policies.

BOHICA.

They do not represent me when they spew this sort of crap.

24 posted on 12/28/2013 9:59:50 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GeronL

Do you actually think that parents 50 years ago would have allowed public schools to sexualize their children and put vile ideas into their heads about sodomy and telling children it is “Good” and that all families are the same-—like two daddies and two mommies.

It erases Christian Ethics and Reason and understanding of Natural Laws (common sense)——flips Good and Evil....

Satire/no-—but it should be.


25 posted on 12/28/2013 11:16:31 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: savagesusie

I know, even 10 years ago this would have been seen as crazy stuff


26 posted on 12/28/2013 11:21:12 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: savagesusie

Soon there will have to be new children’s books: Richard Has the Same Parents He Always Had, Susie Has No “Other Home” to Go To, Clyde Has No Half-Brothers or Half-Sisters, Jackie’s Grandma Is Happy with How Her Grandchildren Turned Out. We were cracking ourselves up with these on Christmas. Wish I could remember them all.


27 posted on 12/29/2013 3:27:48 AM PST by firebrand
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To: GeronL

>> This sounds like satire to sane people

Excellent.


28 posted on 12/29/2013 3:30:05 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Billthedrill
Words have meanings. "Norm" is heterosexual by so far a margin that it is scarcely worth pointing out except to people who want the word to mean something else. Neither does the word "deviate" carry a cachet of "gender" bigotry - that which deviates from the norm, is, well, deviate. That's it. That's what the word means.

In looking at the statement "conservative gender norms related to sexuality and strong normative preference for heterosexuality," people may missing the real point here. It's not in the use of "norm" that really matters, but in "normative".

In analysis, "normative" is the companion of "positive". Positive means objective and based in fact. It must be testable and provable.

Normative means values-driven and opinion-based. It's subjective in nature.

So looking at the statement again, the proper way to interpret it is as saying that a societal preference for heterosexuality isn't rooted in provable, objective facts - it's opinion and values based.

In doing so it essentially tosses the notion that human sexuality is based on the biological drive and need to procreate/reproduce in order to perpetuate the species right out the window. "Heterosexuality" is simply a preference that society has chosen to adopt as a values-based standard. Not something that is hard-wired into (most of) us out of biological necessity.
29 posted on 12/29/2013 3:44:09 AM PST by tanknetter (L)
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To: gitmo

Beautiful and perfect for today.


30 posted on 12/29/2013 4:01:25 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Steve Peacock

Our dwindling tax dollars at work, messing with the cultures of other countries who still have a shred of the common sense and decency that we had before the ungodly took over America.

Hopefully, their leaders will tell us to keep our money and leave them alone.


31 posted on 12/29/2013 5:31:45 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Steve Peacock

“Obama agenda won’t tolerate ‘preference for heterosexuality’ in other countries”


And that is supposed to “mean something”....How?


32 posted on 12/29/2013 6:37:15 PM PST by ourworldawry
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