Homosexual Ambassador causing problems.

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

[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.

[RnMomof7]

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.

Appointed by our "Christian Conservative President"

If this had been a Clinton appointment this forum would be on fire about this..instead the freeple sheeple shrug..so what if we insult a Christian Nation...So What??

[Looking for Diogenes]

Ambassador Michael Guest

[Official Biography}

Michael Guest took up his duties as the new U.S. Ambassador to Romania on September 24, 2001. A 20-year career veteran of the U.S. diplomatic service, Mr. Guest has specialized in European affairs. His expertise is concentrated on security policy, including NATO, and on strengthening civic society and the rule of law.

Mr. Guest joined the Foreign Service in 1981 and was posted to the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong shortly thereafter. From 1983 to 1985, he worked on political-military issues in the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, serving for part of that period as a member of the U.S. delegation to arms control negotiations with the then-Soviet Union. He was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as a Political Officer in 1987, returning to Washington in 1989 to take up new duties as Deputy Director for Political Affairs in the Office of European Security and Political Affairs. In that capacity he exercised responsibility for political discussions at NATO; organized U.S. participation in the then-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the "Two-plus-Four" talks which eventually gave rise to Germany’s reunification. In 1991, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France as Deputy Political Counselor. He later served (1996-99) as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague in the Czech Republic, working with the host government on many of the same issues that are current in Romania.

Before coming to Bucharest, Mr. Guest served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs at the Department of State from January through May 2001. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing, on a day-to-day basis, the Department of State’s dialogue with Congress on foreign policy issues. He served previously in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary since May 1999. Mr. Guest also has served as Assistant Press Secretary at the White House (1985-86) and, from 1994-96, as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department.

Mr. Guest holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Science from Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). Before joining the Foreign Service, he also pursued postgraduate studies in international economics at the University of Toulouse in Toulouse, France.

He is 43 years old.

[dennisw]

hhahaha

[Looking for Diogenes]

so what if we insult a Christian Nation...So What??

Would appointing a Catholic ambassador be an insult to an Orthodox nation? What about an atheist? Maybe they don't like Jews either. Or women in positions of authority. Maybe we should ask them who they would be willing to accept as the ambassador of the most powerful nation in the world, just so we don't accidentally offend them.

[Pistias]

you're actually saying that gay people should not hold down public service jobs

Well, I think it'd be pretty asinine (no pun intended) to send a homosexual as an emissary to the Vatican for the same reason why this is a bad idea.

[nomad]

You are missing the point Ruggers, its the Romanian people who seem to object the most to this "arrangement", but I suppose tolerance for other culture`s views only applies to P.C. ones. If they object to gay ambassadors then we should not be sending them gay ambassadors, we seem to bend over backwards for turd world despots in Africa, South America, Asia,and the Middle East. Could this lack of cultural sensitivity from the pro-PC crowd stem from the fact that not only are these people Christians, but also European whites? Bush is caving in to the left and thats not the man I voted and marched for, or (if he keeps it up) will again.

[Caipirabob]

The restraint of the Romanians is remarkable. Their tolerance for our countries diplomatic slap in the face in unbelievable. We send a couple of deviants as representatives of the American people to a country that still has a sense of decency?'

I'm simply astounded.

Homosexuality is a severe and disturbing disorder which is typically derived from some psychological trauma so devastating that the individual can longer recognize their own sex despite the obvious evidence that God has placed in front of them.

There has never been any viable evidence to prove contrary to this fact.

The shocking nature of homosexuality is not only offensive to the savy, stable psyche, it it an affront to nature itself.

The decent into to homosexual lifestyle, the "Great Gay Lie" is a path sown with deception, depression, disease and paved with the misery of friends, family and loved ones. The corruption promoted by the militant homosexual lobby feeds this cycle of despair with the lives of our innocent loved ones.

Those afflicted with this life-destroying malady need to seek both psychological and if necessary medical help immediately.

Until such occurs on a wide spread scale, "Fluffy" is going to remain one nervous little critter...

[hoosierham]

Anyone actively living a homosexual life does not represent me or the great majority of Americans; we have been forced by the power of unrestrained government to publicly tolerate that deviant behavior, we do not like it.

[RnMomof7]

, just so we don't accidentally offend them.

Keep looking you miss the point

[RnMomof7]

Bump

[Looking for Diogenes]

Keep looking you miss the point

And the point is?

[victim soul]

Agreed. You have to earn my vote.Actions speak louder than words.

[Pistias]

I'll bet it's the same in Romania

Well, what we have here can't prove that or it's opposite. However, if the Romanians don't care (the fact that they have Orthodox officials at every public event would indicate otherwise), then it wouldn't be a flagrant insult, at least.

[Pistias]

Romanian political leaders believe his particular areas of expertise will speed the nation's entry into the European Union

I would think the people who support the EU wholeheartedly have slightly different priorities than the Eastern Orthodox Church and its adherents. As for the Romanians themselves...

[realpatriot]

"Anyone actively living a homosexual life does not represent me or the great majority of Americans; we have been forced by the power of unrestrained government to publicly tolerate that deviant behavior, we do not like it."

Just needed repeating. Are YOU listening ruggers?

[Rome2000]

The State department should know enough to send all the homosexual ambassadors to the European Union countries.

[DoctorMichael]

Shaking-my-head-in-disgust Bump.