PERU: Thousands Rally For Civil Unions

Thousands of Peruvians rallied in Lima's Plaza San Martin on Saturday following last week's rejection of a civil unions bill by the national legislature.

(Via Andres Duque)

PERU: Congress Rejects Civil Unions

Translation: "Civil unions: rejected. It's a shame to see how homophobia takes power in Congress. Let's show our outrage on the streets! Everyone to Plaza San Martin now!"

PERU: Monsignor Calls Gay Politician A "Faggot" As Civil Unions Vote Nears

The Peruvian Congress is about to vote on civil unions, prompting Monsignor Luis Barbaren to call the bill's sponsor, Rep. Carlos Bruce, a "faggot." Barbaren: "He said he's gay, but gay is not a Peruvian word. The word is maricon (faggot)." Barbaren's words came at a ceremony held today to honor the Catholic victims of the terrorist group Shining Path.

UPDATE: Follow Rep. Carlos Bruce on Twitter. The vote should take place sometime within the next couple of hours. The hashtag for the civil unions vote is #UnionCivilYA.

CORRECTION: Google Translate identified Barbaren as an "archbishop" but it appears that he is merely a bishop. I've changed the headline and text of this post to use the title in the original text.

PERU: Evangelist Michael Brown Exports Anti-Gay Hatred To South America

Jeremy Hooper reports for GLAAD:

The sad trend of American anti-LGBT activists traveling across the globe in order to "warn" them from making the pro-LGBT "mistakes" of America continues. The latest example comes from Peru, where vehemently anti-LGBT activist Michael Brown recently spoke to local members of congress, as well as passed out copies of his propaganda book, A Queer Thing Happened to America. This new trend is chilling, frankly. From Jamaica to France to Russia, and many map stops in between, a who's who of American anti-LGBT activists, feeling defeated and increasingly marginalized here at home, are seizing the chance to stir the pot in any nation that might be willing to see them as soothsayers. It is, to the letter, the strategy we saw in Uganda a handful of years ago, when Scott Lively and other Americans started dropping into the nation and telling locals how downright awful we LGBT Americans are. We all know how that one played out.

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Mat Staver Exports Liberty Counsel's Anti-Gay Hate To Peruvian Government

"I recently returned from Peru and it was quite an eye opening experience. I was invited there and I had an opportunity to speak to Congress and also the head of the attorneys and the head of the judiciary and the head of all the educational accrediting body as well. And one of the things that they are concerned with is that America is trying to undermine that Judeo Christian foundation, particularly the Obama administration is funding through the State Department and other ways pro-abortion initiatives, pro-LGBT initiatives, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, etcetera, and same-sex marriage initiatives.

"My message was about worldview and two different worldviews, one with God and one without God and how it makes a difference in law and policy. And then I took it down to specifics such as abortion and marriage and that these are part of God's natural created order, that there's a sanctity of human life because we are created in God's image and marriage is part of God's natural created order and it is part of the very first form of government and that we must protect those and I encouraged the Peruvians to stand strong. So after that, we got an ovation, a standing ovation there, and to my amazement then, the next part of the ceremony was they awarded me a Congressional Medal of Honor." - Hate group leader Mat Staver, getting an award from a foreign government for encouraging them to oppress their own people.