Monday, July 23, 2012

Seeking revenge, author of gay Green Lantern will give Brazilian boyfriend to his hero


Seeking revenge, author of gay Green Lantern will give Brazilian boyfriend to his hero

By Julio Severo
DC Comics writer James Robinson declared that he has received many messages criticizing him for having homosexualized the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, who now is forced to be a homosexual. The strongest opposition, the bitter scriptwriter says, came from Brazil.
James Robinson: seeking revenge from Brazilian fans of Green Lantern
“The most hostile criticism I’ve received was hostile tweets from Brazil. I had been out and the next morning I was like ‘all right, my liver is murdering me’ and someone was like, ‘your liver is punishing you for what you did to Green Lantern,’” said Robinson according to CBR.
“So, just out of spite, when Alan Scott can love again the man in his life is going to be Brazilian,” decided the writer, who is unwilling to accept criticsm from the Brazilian public.
Although newspapers have not specified any Brazilian name from the criticism the scriptwriter received, Blog Julio Severo, in in Portuguese and English, launched an article so soon as news came from gay activists that DC Comics is succumbing to their stubborn demands. The articles against the homosexualization of the hero are these:
If the Brazilian public keeps annoying the American, he will eventually create for his homosexualized hero a harem of Brazilian gays.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Whom do you trust: God or man?


Whom do you trust: God or man?

by Don Hank
If we were to be honest with ourselves for just a brief moment, we would admit that Western society is deeply sinful and even worships sin, celebrating with carnivals and gay parades, and teaching young children how to perform sex acts in schools. Romans 1:25 accurately describes the Western world (Paul uses homosexuals as an example but this issue ranges far wider than that):
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
And the end of that discourse on sinners describes the outcome.
...men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
A graphic depiction of some of that recompense for this particular group of sinners can be found here.
which I referenced in my commentary "The recompense of their error":
So why do people deliberately engage in self-destructive practices that our superior intelligence should be telling us to avoid for the purposes of self preservation? Or for that matter, why do they pursue Keynesian economics amassing mountains of debt that no one could ever repay in a headlong rush to destroy our economy, our means of survival?
The answer is right there in Paul's discourse, and this is the part Christians need to focus on when examining the failure of Western society to manage its laws, its immigration, its social ills, its finances and economy, etc:
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Did you ever consider what that means?
It was GOD'S doing. Paul is talking about people who worship nature instead of the Creator. Why would people who once worshipped nature turn around and do something unnatural, as Paul calls this behavior in this same passage? A person analyzing this without spiritual discernment would say it makes no sense and would be at a loss to explain it in rational terms. Some spiritually blind (but otherwise very intelligent) analysts say that for this reason, Paul didn't really mean "unnatural" when describing this behavior, and they tamper with the translation from the original Greek to make it say something else. (They forget that in the 4th Century, Jerome, a fluent speaker of koine Greek, rendered this term as “contra naturam” in his Vulgate Latin Bible).
But God allows people to do the unnatural all the time. Once you turn your back on God, He abandons you and you fall into a behavior pattern designed by Satan. There is nothing natural about sinful behavior because it was not designed by God. If it is not natural, then is it supernatural?
Well, since God performs supernatural works—that is, works above nature—then Satan’s works might best be considered asa infranatural, or below nature. An animal would not destroy its own habitat and economy the way humans are now doing. Nor would an animal devote itself almost solely to the pursuit of sex, especially homosex, the way many humans do (although homosexuality is known in the animal kingdom, there are no known strictly homosexual individuals that eschew all individuals of the opposite sex).
These infranatural phenomena are exactly why we face an imminent worldwide economic collapse. Economists, supposedly specialists in math, no longer "do math." Likewise, otherwise educated people who understand human anatomy deliberately and routinely utilize a bodily organ designed as an outlet as an inlet, a lifestyle that leads to horrific diseases and death (see here.)
GOD allows this. Because people stopped trusting in Him and thought they could come up with their own answers. Look around you. How do you like the results of Western secularist, humanist political, economic, social, etc, behavior? Vote for either candidate and you will get more of the same.
This is why the West does not need more laws or a better government.
It needs a spiritual revival. And that revival will not happen without the love that Jesus taught. Americans, including the best and otherwise most civil and decent of us, are beating each other up because we think this is about people. If people do this or that, or if we make this or that law or elect this or that politician, then we can get back on track. How can this group or that group be so stupid, they say?
But again, they ignore Paul's words in another letter of his:
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
If you think this is too high-flown and ethereal to relate to your life and the world around you, consider this article on John Maynard Keynes, the author of our failed economic system (bailouts and other government intervention that kills free enterprise):
If we take to heart Paul’s message in Romans 1:25-27, we can easily see it was no coincidence that Keynes was both a sexual pervert (pedophile, homosexual, etc) and the author of the most perverted economic system known to humankind.
Portuguese version of this article: Em quem você confia: em Deus ou no homem?
Source: Julio Severo in English (Last Days Watchman): www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Outrage in Brazil as health ministry prepares to instruct women on how to perform illegal abortions


Outrage in Brazil as health ministry prepares to instruct women on how to perform illegal abortions

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
BRAZIL, July 12, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — When Brazil’s lead presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff was confronted with her pro-abortion past during the 2010 elections, she protested and claimed that she was opposed to the killing of the unborn.
Dilma Rousseff and Obama in Brazil in 2011
As her poll numbers fell and her election was jeopardized, Rousseff signed a public statement promising never to introduce legislation to legalize abortion or silence critics of homosexuality.  She went on to win the presidency by a twelve percent margin.
Pro-lifers are now crying foul as reports have begun to appear in the Brazilian media of plans on the part of the Rousseff administration to instruct women on how to perform chemical abortions, in the name of “reducing the damage caused by clandestine abortions.”
Women who wish to perform a “clandestine” abortion would inform the health ministry of their plans, and receive training on how to perform the abortions, and would even be given the drugs to do so, although they are currently illegal. They will then be given free access to post-abortion medical care at state expense, according to the reports.
Although the Rousseff administration has not yet confirmed or denied the reports, Rousseff’s pro-abortion Secretary of Women’s Policies, Eleonora Menicucci, recently told the Folha de S. Paulo that it “is only a crime to practice abortion itself, but it’s the government’s understanding that it isn’t a crime to give guidance to women on how to carry out an abortion.”
Menicucci, a former Marxist activist who served time with President Rousseff while she was jailed for terrorism in the early 1970s, has publicly boasted of having performed multiple abortions on herself, as well has having received training on how to perform abortions in Colombia. Abortion is illegal in both Brazil and Colombia although it lacks a criminal penalty in a very small minority of cases.
The revelations have led to accusations by pro-lifers of Rousseff contradicting her claim of opposing abortion during the 2010 elections.
The South One division of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has issued a statement denouncing Rousseff’s about-face and asking her to fire her offending ministers.
Rousseff’s policy, they write, is to “create incentives for and to spread abortion, favoring the interests of international organizations that want to impose population control on developing countries, even if this brings the President to disrespect the will of the majority of the Brazilian people, which is against abortion, and to violate the most elemental rules of democracy.”
They call for “the immediate firing of Minister Eleonora Menicucci from the Secretariat for Women’s Policies” and the “immediate firing of the Secretary for Medical Attention of the Ministry of Health, Helvecio Magalhaes, who is coordinating the implantation of the new means to be taken by that Ministry.”
Source: LifesSiteNews, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A USAF chaplain and the promise of God


A USAF chaplain and the promise of God

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12 ESV)

By Julio Severo
In 1987, Dr. Arthur Vincent, a Lutheran minister and theology professor, visited Brazil for a ministers’ meeting. Even with his advanced age, he traveled the whole world, from Nigeria to Philippines, to encourage and build the people of God in the important mission of taking the Gospel to a lost world. He even participated in the Lausanne Congress for World Evangelization. His passion is evangelism.
His visit to Brazil was not different: He wanted to encourage ministers. And I, who was not a minister, was there among ministers because, as Dr. Art told me, God wanted me there.
Dr. Art had a long life experience, having been a USAF chaplain during World War II. More of that experience was revealed when, in a very small group of ministers that was praying, the Holy Spirit spoke prophetically through another American minister, saying to Dr. Art, right in front of me, that “because you honored your father, I will increase the years of your life on Earth.”
It was an interesting promise, considering the American chaplain’s advanced age: 69. Showing gratitude to God, he told how in 1930, in the most severe financial crisis in America, he worked to support his family, while his father was an active alcoholic. He was only 12 years old, and he was working for his family.
However, he didn’t revile his father. He didn’t despise him. He always respected him.
And there is a promise in the Word of God for those who honor parents: “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12 ESV)
With the passing of years, I lost all contact with Dr. Art. We had not corresponded for almost 20 years. But last week, I felt a desire to communicate with him. I researched Google, for the name Arthur Vincent, and there appeared some names in obituary. I thought, “At this point, he has already died.”
Yet, persisting in the research, I found an Arthur that was not in obituaries. I called and I heard a clear voice, and I said that I wanted to talk to Dr. Arthur Vincent. He answered me in a voice that didn’t seem like that of an old man. I thought, “This is probably his son!”
But by asking some questions, especially on his visit to Brazil 25 years ago, he began to remember. And I told him, “At that date, God told that you would have more years of life, and today, here talking to you, I see how God is faithful and is fulfilling His promise in your life.” At that point, he was happy.
Dr. Arthur Vincent is today 94 years old, and serving God!
Dr. Arthur Vincent: preaching and ministring the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
His visit to Brazil was a blessing from God for him. I am a living witness of what God told and fulfilled in his life. And that visit also was a blessing to me. At that time, he had brought a big, leather-bound study Bible. It was a very special Bible, and he intended to give it as a gift to a minister in the ministers’ conference. But suddenly he comes to me, in the presence of all ministers, and he says, “God told me to give this Bible to you.”
I have until today my Bible autographed by an old USAF chaplain, a man that since his childhood honored Him who honors — and he was honored.
With the incentive of that great testimony, I proclaim, “God honors those who honor Him!”
Source: Julio Severo in English (Last Days Watchman): www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Brazilian televangelist Silas Malafaia and his support to socialist politicians in Brazil


Brazilian televangelist Silas Malafaia and his support to socialist politicians in Brazil

In the lack of a Prophet Elijah or a John the Baptist in Brazil, let us make what Jesus taught us, “So practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.”

By Julio Severo
Notice to English-speaking readers: To know more about Silas Malafaia, click here to read a New York Times article on him.
“Ahab for King of Israel. Sponsor: Prophet Elijah.” Such message would never have appeared in a political poster of old Israel, not only because there were no posters on that time, but also because Prophet Elijah never supported politically King Ahab.
Elijah’s mission was to come to the king and say, “Thus says the Lord…” And he fulfilled his calling faithfully, delivering divine messages, which were usually reproofs.
Prophets of God gave their lives for their ministries. They spoke to the kings what should be spoken, no matter who might feel hurt. And it did hurt. And they paid dearly.
I can imagine Elijah in our days, coming to Brazilian socialist presidents, and saying with authority, “You are sinning against God and against the people of Brazil. Your administration has been promoting abortion and homosexuality, which are abominations in the sight of God. Repent and stop your politics of wickedness!”
I can see those red men blushing of fury, and saying, “Insolent! How do you dare to rebuke me? Just for that, I will order the revoking of your TV and radio license.”
So Elijah would break completely the Brazilian tradition of evangelical leaders supporting politicians to receive favors. The prophetic reproof of Elijah to the rulers would make him lose everything!
However, Brazil has no daring Christian leader to come to the “kings.” All of the ministers, bishops and other leaders only come to the “kings” of Brazil to get favors, in a way or other, not to deliver divine messages, much less divine reproofs!
Why to deliver messages and lose everything?
We have a mission to accomplish, even in the political ream, but often we forget it, and God can use the most unexpected people to remind us of our call.
Reinaldo Azevedo became one of those people. He is a Catholic that works as a columnist in Veja magazine (the Brazilian counterpart of Time magazine). He supports gay adoption and is very fond of social democracy, but, by the Brazilian standard, he is a “conservative” and very critic of the Brazilian socialist government. He is not a prophet, but he made some “revelations” that are important for Christians in Brazil. He declared that one of the most sinister men of the ruling Workers’ Party:
1. Has revealed there is no longer any opposition for the advancement of the socialist goals of the Workers’ Party in Brazil. Opposition to socialism in Brazil has been annihilated.
2. Has made clear that today the only opposition is the mass media churches—which belong mostly to neo-Pentecostal televangelists.
3. Has declared that the Workers’ Party is getting ready for a confrontation with those mass media churches.
I wanted Brazil to have some Elijahs for that confrontation, men with the integrity of John the Baptist, who was not afraid of telling a king, “You are sinning against the Law of God when you commit adultery!”
The Workers’ Party, with its obsession of institutionalizing abortion and homosexuality, is getting ready for a future confrontation with churches, but we Brazilians have no Elijah or John the Baptist.
Everything that we have, generally, are two types of evangelicals:
1. Churches and leaders that follow the Workers’ Party for opportunism, because they do not want to lose their radios and TVs. Most of them are neo-Pentecostal.
2. Churches and leaders that follow the Workers’ Party because, brazenly or not, they are socialist for ideological reasons. Most of them are not neo-Pentecostal.
It is in that reality of a spiritually sickened leadership that evangelicals in Brazil have to lead their lives.
In response to the declarations from the sinister man of the Workers’ Party, Silas Malafaia said, “I demonize no political party. As everybody knows, I have already voted for [Brazilian socialist politicians] Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula and José Serra.”
Silas Malafaia
Can such a declaration reflect the spirit of a prophet? Elijah never had his name registered in a poster of political support to King Ahab. In contrast, Malafaia didn’t just vote for pro-abortion and pro-sodomy politicians. Only that would already have been a mistake sufficiently disturbing for a Christian leader. He did much more than this: he gave his name for pamphlets supporting those politicians. He led, by his wicked example, crowds to vote for the most pro-abortion and pro-sodomy politicians in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. It was, for instance, what happened in 2002, when he, with many other evangelical leaders, signed a public document supporting Lula, with all of the consequences that today we know very well and that a genuine prophet would have seen from a distance.
In that time, I denounced the evangelical pro-Lula alliance involving the union of traditional churches (Baptist Nilson Fanini, Presbyterian Guilhermino Cunha, Anglican Robinson Cavalcanti, etc.), Pentecostal churches (Jabes Alencar, Silas Malafaia, etc. [both Assembly of God]) and neo-Pentecostal churches (Marcelo Crivella [Kingdom of God Universal Church], Estevam Hernandes [Reborn in Christ], Robson Rodovalho [Heal Our Land], etc.).
While the most powerful evangelical leaders in Brazil were supporting Lula and the future administration of the Workers’ Party, I was crying out in the wilderness. (In 2002, the president of an evangelical denomination asked me not send him anymore e-mails “attacking” Lula and his ideological record, making clear that he, as a member of the Workers’ Party, was very offended by my alerts.)
Even after seeing all the anti-family attacks by the Lula administration in his first term, Malafaia supported his reelection, showing an obstinate and blind side of his evangelical character. In that point, in 2006, Lula’s pro-homosexuality obsession was patent, national and internationally. If he were trying to be a modern King Ahab, he achieved it. Nevertheless, instead of delivering reproofs to Lula, Malafaia preferred, consciously, giving him political support. If he were trying to be a prophet, he did not achieve it.
So, Malafaia was limited in his public declaration, when he said, “I have already voted for [Brazilian socialist politicians] Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula and José Serra.” He forgot mentioning that he voted and promoted Sérgio Cabral, the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality governor of Rio de Janeiro.
The declaration of Malafaia should have included what he really did, “I have voted for, I have supported and I have promoted, with my signature, all of those socialist men, including Lula, the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality president in the history of Brazil.” He should also have stated, “I encouraged crowds to vote for the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality politicians in the history of Brazil and of Rio de Janeiro.” It would be hard to confirm that truth, as well as it would have been unpleasant for Elijah to say, “As a prophet of the Lord, I have voted for, I have supported and I have promoted, with my signature, Ahab, the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality king in the history of Israel, and I encouraged the whole people of Israel to vote for him.”
Malafaia also said, “I vote for people and not for parties.” Does this justify voting for, supporting and promoting systematically people that have an ideological history against family and against Christianity? Does this justify encouraging crowds of evangelicals to vote for people that have an ideological history against family and against Christianity?
It is paranoid to fight abortion and homosexuality and to vote for, to support and to promote politicians that promote those evils. It is equally paranoid to fight abortion and homosexuality and to encourage churches to vote for those politicians. It is like a man that fights a great fire, but once in a while he throws gas in the fire. It is like seeing a dog trying to catch its own tail.
Elijah was a man that fought the great fires of the social wickedness without throwing gas in the fire. But Brazil doesn’t have that kind of man.
What Brazil has, mostly, are 1) Christians that vote for and promote the Workers’ Party or other socialist parties (PSDB, PSOL, etc.) and remain silent, and 2) Christians that vote for and promote the Workers’ Party or other socialist parties (PSDB, PSOL, etc.) and don’t remain silent.
To remain silent in the presence of the institutionalization of sin is sin! To open the mouth against the institutionalization of sin while promoting those who do it is better than silence, but it is also sin.
However, because Brazil has no Elijah or John the Baptist, we are left with the imperfect option of supporting Christian leaders that at least open their mouths. That is the case of Malafaia. Although he has thrown a lot of gas in the fires that he is combatting, at least he is not like many others that equally threw a lot of gas in the fires and today remain silent or soften the dangers of the fires.
Actually, Brazil needs a man to open his mouth without throwing gas in the fire. That is God’s ideal. A man that denounces sin and says to the “kings” of Brazil, “Thus says the Lord.” A man that, even running the risk of losing his radio and TV license, would proclaim his messages in the corners of streets or in the corners of internet.
In the lack of a prophet Elijah or a John the Baptist in Brazil, let us make what Jesus taught us:
“So practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.” (Matthew 23:3 ESV)
Those words of Jesus can also be paraphrased this way:
“So practice and follow whatever they tell you in defense of family. But don’t imitate their actions of voting, supporting and promoting anti-family politicians, because they don’t practice what preach.”
Some consent only by their actions; others by their words and actions. Therefore, let us know how to discern what to do in the presence of total or partial omissions.
When they teach us against abortion and homosexuality, let us hear and practice.
But let us don’t imitate their actions. When they vote for anti-family politicians, let us don’t imitate them.
When they support and promote anti-family politicians, let us don’t imitate them.
Let us remember their words and messages in defense of family, but let us don’t imitate what they practice in election times, throwing gas in the fire. Let us ignore completely their irresponsible political recommendations when they don’t practice what they preach. After all, such was Jesus’ command: to follow their good teachings and not to imitate their hypocrisy.
Therefore, in obedience to Jesus’ words, let us follow everything that Malafaia and others teach on abortion and homosexuality, but let us don’t imitate their actions. Let us defend everything that Malafaia teaches in defense of family, but let us don’t imitate him when he throws gas in the fire. On the contrary, let us throw water in the fire, rejecting irresponsible political recommendations.
This article is not criticism, but a necessary clarification after several articles by me defending the antiabortion and anti-homosexuality stance of Malafaia.
He is doing very well in the defense of family. Only his political weaknesses have been a great trap for him and for Brazilian evangelicals.
In regard to moral values, Malafaia has been an excellent conservative: he has been conserving the biblical standard very well. But in regard to politics, he has been everything, except biblical and conservative. As a minister of the Gospel, his only role in politics is to lead wicked politicians to God and repentance, not to lead evangelical crowds to wicked politicians, as he has been doing systematically.
Above all, help Malafaia to defend family, and Brazil will be greatly blessed. But if you follow his political recommendations, you may eventually end up throwing gas in the fire, and Brazil may have other Lulas and Cabrals, crazily obsessed by the destruction of family.
Portuguese version of this article: Silas Malafaia e seu apoio a FHC, Lula e Serra
Source: Julio Severo in English (Last Days Watchman): www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
More about the Lula, the socialist politician that Silas Malafaia voted for, supported and promoted among Brazilian evangelicals:

Friday, July 06, 2012

Therapists who treat homosexuality ‘terrorized’ by Brazil’s psychology council says expert


Therapists who treat homosexuality ‘terrorized’ by Brazil’s psychology council says expert

by Julio Severo
Translated from the Portuguese original by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
July 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Marisa Lobo, a Brazilian psychologist who identifies publicly as a Christian, answers questions from pro-family activist Julio Severo about her struggle against Brazil’s leftist Federal Council of Psychology (CFP), which has forbidden her to publicly associate her Christianity with her identity as a psychologist, a ruling that has recently been condemned by the Religious Right and Liberty Committee of the Order of Attorneys of Brazil as unconstitutional.
Marisa Lobo
Lobo says that she was threatened with the loss of her license by the CFP in response to complaints from homosexual activists over her blog and Twitter posts condemning the “gay kit” that the Brazilian government tried to distribute to public school students in 2011, with the stated purpose of fighting “homophobia.” The kit’s explicit contents and positive portrayal of homosexual behavior provoked outrage among Brazilians and the program was suspended by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as a result.
Some of the questions of the original interview were eliminated for the sake of brevity, and paragraph breaks have been added for the sake of readability.
Julio Severo: Why is the Federal Council of Psychology threatening you?
Marisa Lobo: For revealing myself on the Internet as a Christian psychologist, for defending my faith and principally for questioning the gay kit, which for me is not a form of preventing prejudice, and is an incentive for homosexual practices. The gay kit is very explicit, and from what I understand about public policy, its applicability is not justified in such a personal way. The gay kit is a way of giving privileges and creating an even greater form of prejudice.
With children things should happen at the appropriate time, in a natural and general way. We should have kits that speak of prejudice as a whole, about bullying suffered by overweight people, nerds, short people, Evangelicals, homosexuals, ugly people, blacks, blind people, etc. In sum: if we give a privileged attention only to one category, we are discriminating against the others. That doesn’t eliminate prejudice; it is just a Machiavellian tactic for privileging and instituting a dictatorship and a superior group, and I am principally in favor of equality.
Julio Severo: If someone involved in homosexuality asks you for help to abandon the lifestyle, what do you do?
Marisa Lobo: I treat them. My oath, my code of ethics, tells me that I have to treat, to listen to psychic suffering, and if the fact of being homosexual is causing any kind of suffering, I do treat them. It’s my obligation, even if it is to change their orientation, condition, or choice, if that is their absolute desire. I could not deny it to them. I would be violating the code of ethics, would I not?  But it’s evident that, as a psychologist, I must respect resolution 01/1999 (the CFP resolution which does not permit treatment of homosexuality as an illness – ed.). The World Health Organization says that homosexuality is not an illness, however at the same time I don’t understand why there is so much pressure from gay militants who fear psychologists who do not refuse such help. Gay militants distort what we do and continue to monitor us.
What happens in the therapeutic setting should be determined by the patient. The neurosis is such that psychologists are fearful and are induced to make clear to the patient that it isn’t an illness, whether it is or not. But if he’s going to therapy it’s because he’s suffering. And if, I repeat, it is his will, I have to be a channel, without imposing, something I have never done. What they say about me is a lie and another strategy for condemning people who are Christian.
Julio Severo: Are the threats of the CFP impeding you from helping homosexuals?
Marisa Lobo: The decision of the person should always be respected. We must always keep in mind the demands of the patient. We should respect his will without pressure. A reversion (of his condition) can happen in many cases. The terrorism of the CFP does not permit homosexuals to believe this. The CFP thinks that when someone says they want to change, it is because of an imposition of religion, and, since they don’t believe in God—because God for many of them is a myth—they always are going to treat this topic with religious prejudice. I now let my patient decide. If it’s what he wants, we go there, and in the process, he will determine and even confirm if that is what he wants.
Julio Severo: Why is the CFP, which doesn’t impede Spiritist psychologists from applying Spiritist techniques in their treatment, so involved in what you do as a Christian that they busy themselves with your clients?
Marisa Lobo: Why? Look, I don’t know. It’s impossible that they still don’t know that a Brazilian Association of Spiritist Psychologists exists, or Buddhist psychology, or Jewish, or esoteric, or parapsychoology, etc. There exists a grand number [of such things]. You only need to go to Google to prove it. The Federal Council of Psychology is the most persecutory, unethical autocracy in history.  They have no moral standing to persecute me. They are activists for ideologies, policies, sexual orientation, atheism, and they vent their hatred and prejudice against Christians, principally Evangelicals.
But the response is clear: Christianity speaks openly about homosexuality. So they want to destroy us for being Christians. They combat the Bible punishing those who follow it, because of religious prejudice. It is necessary to put an end to the activism of the CFP, which should be investigated by public prosecutors, since it committs various crimes, it violates its policies, it’s hypocritical, unethical. It clearly persecutes those who oppose it. That’s why I have been persecuted. There is a war [against me] because today I question that Council and its director.
Julio Severo: If the CFP revokes your license, what will you do?
Marisa Lobo: I am not going to abandon my profession over that, nor anything else that is legal and moral.  The CFP has no morals, because it has gagged us, and no one dares to contest its decisions. We are obligated to accept them as the truth, even if they are lies.
They are social surfers, adopting themselves to the evolution of society, even if that evolution is bad, because they have lost the sense of what is right and wrong for the individual, of the family, of the necessity of rules, ethics, morality, principles. They are just surfing. As a result, family crises and inhumanity are on the increase, and now the legalization of abortion is coming, a record-breaking number of divorces, condoms in the schools, the legalization of drugs—and psychology adapts. Soon, we’re going to see sex on the beaches, and the whole world applauding because psychology is going to determine that it is a right to express one’s sexuality. That’s the direction humanity is going in.
Julio Severo: What caused the complaint against you in the CFP?
Marisa Lobo: The fact of my speaking of God in my social networks and of having asked the deputies to pay attention to the content of the gay kit, which was an aberration, with extremely inappropriate and sexualized content that in a sense eliminates prejudice, but creates even more. They didn’t like it. When they learned that it was a Christian talking, they began to persecute me, as a psychologist who categorizes herself as a Christian, and later in the process as a homophobe, because I said on Twitter that I love gays, but I prefer for my child to be heterosexual. And I still don’t understand why having an opinion instigates violence. Now I’m going to lose my right to say that I’m happy being a heterosexual, and that I prefer my children to be heterosexual?
They want society to think that I persecute gays, that I offer treatment for gays because I’m a fundamentalist, prejudiced. They decided that, and that’s that.  I don’t accept it. The truth is that they are contradictory. They are trying to use everything to qualify me as a “homophobe.” And in 15 years of work, never did any patient complain that I imposed my religious convictions in my practice. The case against me is religious persecution, religious prejudice. The CFP thought that I would shut up, because many people deify psychology.  Well I, Marisa Lobo, only have one God, and I don’t serve the insanity of these members of the Council. If they revoke my license, they are going to dig their moral grave.
Julio Severo: True Christianity is “lose for the purpose of winning.” Do you fear losing your psychology career because of Christian testimony?
Marisa: The only fear I have is that God might turn his face from me. God gave me the opportunity to be persecuted for the love of him, and I accepted. God wants to change something, and here I speak as a pastor. I am only an instrument. If my license is removed, I am going to fight in all venues. My greatest fear is that Jesus would deny me before the Father, and that will not happen, because I am not denying him before men.
Complete interview in Portuguese
Source: LifesSiteNews, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Brazilian psychology association seeks to revoke Christian therapist’s license


Brazilian psychology association seeks to revoke Christian therapist’s license

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
July 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Brazilian psychologists are seeking to revoke the license of a therapist for publicly affirming her Christian beliefs on her online blog and twitter accounts, an action that the organization claims violates its code of ethics.
Marisa Lobo
Marisa Lobo, a psychologist and Evangelical who has published several popular works on psychological issues, sends Twitter messages to her thousands of followers under the title “Christian Psychology,” and maintains a website with the same name.
The Federal Council of Psychology (CFP), which has the power to regulate the activities of psychologists in Brazil, informed Lobo in February through its affiliate in the state of Paraná that she had 15 days to remove any indication of an association between her psychology practice and her religious beliefs from her website, or risk losing her license to practice.
Lobo’s posts and tweets often conflict with the sexually libertine and left-wing ideology espoused by the CFP, including denunciations of homosexual adoption, and support for sexual orientation change therapy. She claims that the process against her was spurred by complaints from homosexuals, especially regarding her opposition to the “gay kit,” a set of highly explicit materials which was to be distributed to children in public schools in 2011 as an “anti-homophobia measure.” However, the program was suspended due to public outrage.
In its warning to Lobo, the CFP cited its code of ethics, which “forbids” psychologists to exert “influence in favor of political, philosophical, moral, ideological, or religious convictions, those regarding sexual orientation, or any type of prejudice, when they are engaged in the exercise of their professional functions” or to “give services or link the title of psychologists to services of psychological care whose procedures, techniques, and means are not regulated or recognized by the profession.”
Lobo responded to the CFP with a letter stating that she has never imposed her views on clients, and claiming the code is “unconstitutional.”
“I declare to this council of psychology, that I am not going to comply with this decision. I am not going to remove from my blog, and/or my twitter, nor from my site, absolutely anything that links me to psychology and to my faith,” wrote Lobo.
“To the contrary, I want my patients to have the right to choose me as a therapist because they know that I, Marisa Lobo, am a psychologist, a professional who believes in almighty God,” she added.

Lobo defies Council on same-sex attraction therapy

In a subsequent interview with pro-family activist Julio Severo, Lobo made it clear that she does, and will continue to do, therapy for those homosexuals who wish to develop opposite-sex attraction, which appears to be forbidden by the CFP’s ethical code.
“My oath, my code of ethics, tells me that I have to treat, to listen to psychic suffering, and if the fact of being homosexual is causing any kind of suffering, I do treat them. It’s my obligation, even if it is to change their orientation, condition, or choice, if that is their absolute desire. I could not deny it to them. I would be violating the code of ethics, would I not?”
She added, however, that she “respects” the CFP’s 1999 resolution condemning the treatment of homosexuality as an illness. However, if a homosexual is “going to therapy it’s because he’s suffering. And if, I repeat, it is his will, I have to be a channel, without imposing, something I have never done … I now let my patient decide. If it’s what he wants, we go there, and in the process, he will determine and even confirm if that is what he wants.”

Council’s actions “unconstitutional,” says national bar association

Brazil’s national bar association, known as the Order of Attorneys of Brazil, also disagrees with the CFP’s actions, calling them an “undoubtedly unconstitutional” attack on Lobo’s religious freedom in a legal opinion brief published in response to a request by Lobo.
The CFP’s code of ethics “clearly shows the prohibition of proselytizing in the exercise of this profession, however it is not about proselytism in a form of personal expression of faith, and, therefore, of integrating the essence of religious liberty in the broad sense,” stated the Order in a declaration on the case.
The attention drawn to Lobo’s case by media coverage has resulted in recent congressional hearings on overturning the CFP’s ban on therapy for same-sex attraction, a practice still recognized by the World Health Organization as a legitimate response to unwanted homosexuality. Lobo testified at the hearing, where she was jeered at and interrupted by homosexuals, who chanted slogans while she sought to testify. The CFP refused to participate.
The CFP’s recent attack on Lobo follows a similar action in 2009, in which the organization publicly censured psychologist Rozangela Justino for conducting reparative therapy for homosexual clients who wished it, and ordered its Rio de Janeiro division to enforce the ruling prohibiting the treatment.
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Marisa Lobo on Twitter
Source: LifesSiteNews, via Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com