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Homosexual Ambassador causing problems.
http://www.frc.org/get/n02a004.cfm ^ | January 7, 2002 | By Fred Jackson and Rusty Pugh

Posted on 01/12/2002 2:14:54 PM PST by GrandMoM

News headline Retrieved

Gay Ambassador Troubles Embassy Staff

Story: Little attention was drawn to Michael Guest's homosexual relationship with his "partner" during his confirmation process as President Bush's ambassador to Romania. However, those working under Guest in Bucharest now find it difficult to avoid his flaunting of the relationship, according to an American embassy worker who recently spoke with FRC.

Although Guest had been active in a gay and lesbian group within the State Department, he was not publicly identified as being homosexual until his swearing-in on September 18, when Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged Guest's "partner," Alex Nevarez, during the ceremony.

Nevarez, a former teacher, relocated to Romania with Guest and now lives with him there in the residence provided to the ambassador by the U.S. government.

According to our source, several families in the embassy community have expressed concern about the ambassador's living arrangement, and at least one will no longer bring their children to embassy social events because they do not want them exposed to the example set by Guest and his "partner."

For example, Guest and Nevarez escorted one another as a couple at the embassy's annual Marine Corps Ball, a highly formal event. "It's causing me to have to compromise the values I raise my family by," the source said.

The appointment of Guest to serve in Romania showed a particular cultural insensitivity, given that the country is a stronghold of the conservative Eastern Orthodox Church.

Our source indicated that the Orthodox Church is represented at virtually all government ceremonies in Romania. One Romanian professor, in a letter to a Bucharest daily newspaper, said that "Romanians . . . cannot comprehend homosexual acts in any other way but as a deviation from the natural order and the world created by the Lord," and he noted that the Guest appointment "generates bewilderment, indignation, and disgust among the Romanians."

Romanian laws relating to homosexuality were recently liberalized, but only under coercion from the European Union, to which Romania hopes to gain entrance. Although Guest has denied he will promote a "gay agenda" as ambassador, his mere presence in Bucharest is already having that effect.

Another person serving at the embassy held a meeting in November to encourage leaders of Romania's fledgling "gay movement." And some embassy employees fear that Bucharest will gain a reputation as a "gay-friendly" post, so that more homosexuals will request assignment there. Ambassador Guest's treatment of same-sex "partners" (including his own) as the equivalent of married spouses is a mere half step away from government endorsement of "same-sex marriage." Not only does this violate the spirit of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (which defines marriage as being between one man and one woman), but it is also a distraction from the important work of our embassy in Romania.


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To: NotTheDevil
Perhaps they appreciate being sent an Ambassador who is a seasoned diplomate rather than a political hanger-on. Do you find that too difficult to fathom?

If that's the only post of mine you read, perhaps you should read the others.

I'm arguing from the same side you are.

321 posted on 01/14/2002 7:53:51 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: NotTheDevil
Please quote one Romanian by name who has objected to Guest in any way.

Why don't you go read the article (One Romanian professor, in a letter to a Bucharest daily newspaper, said that "Romanians . . . cannot comprehend homosexual acts in any other way but as a deviation from the natural order and the world created by the Lord," and he noted that the Guest appointment "generates bewilderment, indignation, and disgust among the Romanians."), instead of wasting your time pushing your sodomite agenda and taking your own quotes out of context regarding the Founding Fathers and Christianity. All they're saying is that there is nothing wrong with Christianity itself, but there is when it is bastardized and used as a form of government itself, and used to control and oppress people. No duh!

(And don't say "The Romanian in the article was specifically quoted", like a little 2 year old would.)

323 posted on 01/14/2002 8:01:55 PM PST by GreatOne
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To: GreatOne
My last sentence should read: (And don't say "The Romanian in the article wasn't specifically quoted by name", like a little 2 year old would.)

Excuse me.

324 posted on 01/14/2002 8:05:05 PM PST by GreatOne
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To: NotTheDevil
Do you have any core convictions? Do you believe in concrete truths or is everything subjective on a "feel-good" utopian plane?
325 posted on 01/14/2002 8:06:20 PM PST by JMJ333
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To: JMJ333
The appointment has ramifications, one of which is legitmizatio of a lifestyle that is morally wrong.

Is it a mutually accepted relationship between consenting adults? Then it is moral. Period. End of line.

326 posted on 01/14/2002 8:55:24 PM PST by Silverdrake
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To: Silverdrake
Does post 325 apply to you also?
327 posted on 01/14/2002 8:58:48 PM PST by JMJ333
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To: JMJ333
However, fornicators and adulterers aren't trying to change the fabric of society in the same manner as the homosexuals.

There are many who are trying to change the fabric of society. Some -- you among them, apparently -- are trying to change it into a theocracy.

328 posted on 01/14/2002 9:13:45 PM PST by Silverdrake
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To: who knows what evil?
I long ago realized that witholding legal marriage from homosexuals is a violation of their Constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law. Nor was the "Defense of Marriage Act" anything but a doubly unconstitutional caving-in to religious extremists with no basis in the enumerated powers allowed to Congress.

No one has the right to force you to worship Vishnu, or fast during Rammadan, or have your heart torn out to nourish Huizilopoctli. Where then do you get the idea that you have the right to demand everyone else live according to your religious tenets?

329 posted on 01/14/2002 9:49:41 PM PST by Silverdrake
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To: JMJ333
Yes, I have core convictions. Many of them, perhaps most of them, are found in the Constitution of the United States. Others formed from other sources:

An it harm none, do as you will.

Whatever you do, for good or ill, comes back to you three times over.

A bigot is someone who resolutely and without hesitation hates a certain class of people. I hate bigots and other people who are willfully stupid. So, I'm a bigot. You got a problem with that?

330 posted on 01/14/2002 10:35:49 PM PST by Silverdrake
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To: NotTheDevil
Quite useful for those who think Conservative means being a Colony of Britain.

1791 is after 1776.

Interesting that many of the colonies whose legal codes you so admire also had laws recognizing the buying and selling of living human beings as a legitimate economic enterprise.

Slavery was unknown to the common law.

331 posted on 01/14/2002 11:30:28 PM PST by Roscoe
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To: Looking for Diogenes
Certainly while serving, an ambassador should avoid an prsonal controversies whenever possible.

You are making a generic case, I am discussing a specific one. To support the homosexual agenda is destructive, even when at home. That was my only point.

Shalom.

332 posted on 01/15/2002 5:45:35 AM PST by ArGee
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To: Silverdrake
There are many who are trying to change the fabric of society. Some -- you among them, apparently -- are trying to change it into a theocracy.

I see. So, trying to keep the homosexual lifestyle from being normalized as a legitimate and healthy behavior makes me one who is trying to chage the society into a theocracy. That has to be the silliest rebuttal I've read yet.

333 posted on 01/15/2002 5:56:40 AM PST by JMJ333
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To: Silverdrake
Yes, I have core convictions. Many of them, perhaps most of them, are found in the Constitution of the United States. Others formed from other sources:

The founders of the constitution based this country on Judeo-Christianity. It is our foundation.

An it harm none, do as you will.

You are a moral relativist. Actions and behavior have consequences. You can either address it or continue to stick your head in the sand.

Whatever you do, for good or ill, comes back to you three times over.

I can go with that. =)

A bigot is someone who resolutely and without hesitation hates a certain class of people. I hate bigots and other people who are willfully stupid. So, I'm a bigot. You got a problem with that?

Are you calling me a bigot and saying you hate me? All because I don't want homosexuality on par with heterosexuality? No--I don't have a problem with it. I feel rather sorry for you.

334 posted on 01/15/2002 6:07:49 AM PST by JMJ333
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To: ArGee
" If the ambassador is really keeping it to himself, it doesn't matter."

If I may intrude on your conversation a little. Mr. Guest is clearly not "keeping it to himself" as this little blurb from Romania's homosexual activists show.

"His Excellency, Mr. Michael Guest, US Ambassador to Romania, sends his best wishes to the LGBT Community in Romania
His Excellency, Mr. Michael Guest, US Ambassador to Romania, sends his best wishes to the LGBT Community in Romania
He sent his message through Adrian Coman, Executive Director of ACCEPT, who had the honor to meet the US Ambassador and his partner - Alex Nevarez - at a reception offered by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and President Ion Iliescu in Bucharest, November 14, 2001. " link
ACCEPT is the first Romanian non-governmental organisation working for the LGBT people

ps- You couldn't pay me to vote for President Bush

335 posted on 01/15/2002 6:43:35 AM PST by Varda
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To: Varda
If I may intrude on your conversation a little. Mr. Guest is clearly not "keeping it to himself" as this little blurb from Romania's homosexual activists show.

You make my point. If it matters - that is, if we know - he is clearly not keeping it to himself.

If someone doesn't make a stink about it (pun intended) how do you know if he suffers from homosexual attraction?

Shalom.

336 posted on 01/15/2002 6:59:29 AM PST by ArGee
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To: GrandMoM
Where is Vlad when we really need him?
338 posted on 01/15/2002 7:25:06 AM PST by SuperLuminal
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To: Alarm Clock
SMACK DEAD and SPOT ON

Which, of course, is a guarantee that I will get flamed for saying it.

Thanks.

Shalom.

339 posted on 01/15/2002 7:35:21 AM PST by ArGee
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