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US Threatens to Deny Visas to Dominican Republic Lawmakers if They Don’t Legalize Abortion: Bishop
LifeSite News ^ | 2/25/22 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 02/26/2022 5:59:53 PM PST by marshmallow

Dominican Republic Bishop Víctor Masalles described some of the international pressure the country faces to legalize abortion and write LGBT 'protections' into law.

BANÍ, Dominican Republic (LifeSiteNews) — Legislators in the Dominican Republic “received a warning from the American embassy that if they don’t legalize abortion” and write LGBT protections into law, “they’re gonna be without visa[s],” one of the nation’s Catholic bishops said.

Bishop Víctor Masalles of the Diocese of Baní told LifeSiteNews that the pressure the Dominican Republic is facing to legalize abortion is intense.

In the Dominican Republic, “the government knows the Congress is pro-life, and that’s a beautiful thing,” said Masalles, but “the president of the Senate [and] the president of the representatives” have been put on notice by the U.S. that they need to liberalize their laws or face diplomatic sanctions such as the loss of visas, said Masalles.

UNICEF is lobbying Dominican Republic politicians, too, the bishop said.

“We don’t have discrimination” in the Dominican Republic, said the bishop, but there is nevertheless a campaign to write supposedly anti-discrimination LGBT protections into the law.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillerbiden; evil
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1 posted on 02/26/2022 5:59:53 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Better to be banned from the United States because you took a stand against the murder of innocents than to be banned from Heaven because you valued the approval of men.


2 posted on 02/26/2022 6:02:16 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

Obscene.


3 posted on 02/26/2022 6:02:36 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: marshmallow

I don’t think Russia is doing this. We are. Keep in mind when criticizing Russia.


4 posted on 02/26/2022 6:03:14 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: marshmallow

If true, how dare we. If not true,how dare he.


5 posted on 02/26/2022 6:03:59 PM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: marshmallow

Oh … the scum in the administration want them to bow and scrape to the poofters too! Just noticed that. Murder of innocents isn’t enough for the Biden administration!


6 posted on 02/26/2022 6:04:15 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

And yet truly intelligent liberals here in America say that conservative complaints about a culture war are not true, and that we Christians are just complaining about nothing.

Ephesians 6


7 posted on 02/26/2022 6:05:08 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy

Dominican Republic.
Biden Nominates Georgia House ‘Dean’ Smyre as Ambassador https://www.globalatlanta.com › biden-nominates-georgia-house-dean-smyre-as-ambassador-to-dominican-republic
October 1, 2021 | Trevor Williams Calvin Smyre has been nominated as U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. President Joe Biden has nominated fellow Democrat and longtime Georgia State Rep. Calvin Smyre of Columbus as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.


8 posted on 02/26/2022 6:13:24 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

Our government is pure evil, when I call them the evil ones, it’s literal.


9 posted on 02/26/2022 6:23:25 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Rurudyne
Mark 8:36: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
10 posted on 02/26/2022 6:31:12 PM PST by Fungi
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To: marshmallow

If the US does this, then some of the US embassy staff could be expelled.


11 posted on 02/26/2022 6:37:19 PM PST by Truth29
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To: marshmallow
"We want to be able to kill your fetuses at will. Especially those negro ones. Especially those negro ones!"
12 posted on 02/26/2022 6:43:01 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: All

“Bow and worship Moloch or else”.


13 posted on 02/26/2022 6:51:38 PM PST by BipolarBob (The roar of the masses could be "Let's Go Brandon".)
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To: marshmallow

Seems the U.S. has become the Evil Empire.
Or one of them. We can only keep ourselves clean and our families, as well as we can. I’m beyond sickened. I’m sure there were a few good Jews in Israel when God gave them over to Pharoah and 400 years of sorrow.
Can saved souls escape the physical judgement God must surely have planned for us?


14 posted on 02/26/2022 6:52:46 PM PST by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: marshmallow

Hang on till November, things are going to change.


15 posted on 02/26/2022 6:54:36 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: marshmallow

Well, the Dominican government rules, and the US State Department (and JRB, Jr.) can eat my boogers.


16 posted on 02/26/2022 6:55:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Rurudyne

Very well said.


17 posted on 02/26/2022 7:09:03 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: marshmallow

“Our values” and “who we are” and “democracy” at work yet again.


18 posted on 02/26/2022 7:11:27 PM PST by cdcdawg (Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
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To: marshmallow

The democrats love, LOVE, killing babies and won’t be happy until everyone can kill their babies.


19 posted on 02/26/2022 7:37:54 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: marshmallow

A bad day for Major League Baseball.

In the recent past, more than 10% of MLB players came from the Dominican Republic!

From memory, during that period, there were more D.R. players than Black American players!


20 posted on 02/26/2022 8:11:17 PM PST by zeestephen
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