OTTAWA, August 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s outspoken women’s organization on life and family issues has slammed Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird for imposing what it says is “his own perspective on homosexuality” in foreign countries such as Uganda, Kenya, and Russia that have passed laws aimed at preserving the traditional family structure.
“Just who does John Baird think he is, using taxpayers’ money to promote his own personal agenda and endeavouring to set standards of the laws of foreign countries?” asked Gwen Landolt, National Vice-President of REAL Women of Canada, in a press release yesterday.
REAL Women criticized Baird for awarding $200,000 of Canadian taxpayers’ money by way of the Department of Foreign Affairs to special interest groups in Uganda and Kenya that promoted homosexual activity as a right.
Last October Baird denounced Uganda at an international summit in Quebec City for violating gay rights and oppressing homosexuals. Uganda has consistently stood against pressure from international gay activists and the UN to accept Western sexual values, passing in 2005 a constitutional amendment that criminalized same-sex ‘marriage’ and specified that “marriage is lawful only if entered into between a man and a woman.”
The speaker of the Ugandan Parliament accused Baird at that time of harboring a “colonial attitude” towards African nations and meddling in the country’s internal affairs. (more...)
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