Hillary Clinton in Lima Pushes Abortion, Gay Agenda

'In a region plagued by extreme poverty, economic crisis and unemployment, industries threatened by giants such as China, instability and insecurity about the arms race or border issues, drug trafficking, assaults on democracy everyday, etc., we had to use the limited time to listen to a woman claiming her right to lesbianism'

FRONT ROYAL, VA (Population Research Institute) - From June 6 to June 8 of this year, member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) met in Lima, Peru, and declared once again their "commitment to peace, security and cooperation" among its members.

The reality is quite different.

Those who look carefully will find that OAS is paying little attention to the implementation of "mechanisms to deal with threats, traditional and new, that affect the region."  On the contrary, when we at PRI attended the meeting, we witnessed political lobbies working to focus public attention on fabricated "crises," while neglecting real emergencies in economic and social development.

The attempt to make the concept of "sexual orientation" binding through the OAS, one of the Clintons' big initiatives, has little or no support in Latin America.  In fact, such a move has already been proven to have no roots in popular demand in any of our countries. For example, the 2008  Ibero-American Summit for "Youth and Development" in El Salvador was expressly rejected by the host country, as well as Nicaragua, Panama and Mexico.  This was because subscription and ratification of the Ibero-American Youth Convention included questionable content related to sexual orientation. From that date, the ratification of this document by the other countries ground to a halt.

The 40th OAS General Assembly seemed certain to go better for them.  Its promoters were empowered by the participation of Hillary Clinton, a  champion of so-called reproductive and sexual rights (read: abortion).  Even in private dialogue sessions held on the Monday before the event, "sexual orientation and gender identity" were discussed as needing urgent approval.

One of the participants of the event, a production sector representative, complained that event members showed clear preferences for non-traditional sexual orientations (i.e., lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual tendencies).  "In a region plagued by extreme poverty, economic crisis and unemployment, industries threatened by giants such as China, instability and insecurity about the arms race or border issues, drug trafficking, assaults on democracy everyday, etc., we had to use the limited time to listen to a woman claiming her right to lesbianism," he lamented.

The key play of the LGBT lobby was the draft resolution, pre-approved in the OAS Permanent Council.  That resolution was actually part of a comprehensive package of resolutions to be discussed in a very short time, a package that came to a whopping 105 items.

Seeing as it wasn't humanly possible to have time to seriously pose each of these matters, the adoption of this package of draft resolutions by the General Assembly became a mere formality, a charade with no possibility of debate.  In fact, the General Committee met in private and worked it all out before lunch on June 8, the last day of the event.

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Despite the heavy-handed way that the resolution was pushed forward, many of those present expressed their fundamental disagreement with it.  Several participants, among them Peruvian congresswoman Fabiola Moralis, pointed out to Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde that following the resolution meant using internal channels of the OAS to violate local laws, and supersede the functions of legislative powers.  The Peruvian diplomat responded, almost casually, that these resolutions were "not of great importance."  However, he then immediately corrected himself, saying that, while they are "not binding, we should follow them."

If the host of the General Assembly himself has this to say about the proceedings, the question remains: is the OAS even important at all?  Or is this simply the modus operandi of a bureaucracy that uses meetings like this to advance their anti-family and anti-life views? 

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Carlos Polo is the Director of the Latin American Office of the Population Research Institute.

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