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December
02, 2008
"Family
life is changing ... welcome to the new era."
This is truly frightening. But that is where homosexual
activists, supported by the First World, by liberal
governments, by pro-choice judiciaries, and by the
EU and UN bureaucracies, are taking us. Make no mistake
about it. Their efforts are consistent, persistent,
and will stop at nothing to achieve their agenda.
They will use the law and international pressure to
force their agenda, to intimidate not just individuals
and groups but whole nations, to isolate and penalize
those who oppose them.
We
must speak out boldly. We must act decisively.
God
bless.
frank
p.s.
Our brethren in Poland, and indeed throughout Europe,
can write IKEA to register our objection. You can
even threaten to boycott. This has worked before.
Such companies value their bottom line more than their
misguided advocacy.
IKEA’s
Polish Catalogue Introduces “Ian and Steve”
as a Model of the New Family
By
Hilary White
December
1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ad campaign
in the latest catalogue by the Swedish furniture giant,
IKEA, purporting to depict “modern” life,
includes twelve portraits of “families”
that promote a “new model of living together.”
Among these is the domestic arrangement of “Ian”
and “Steve,” under the slogan, “the
family is ... two sister souls.”
“Ian
and Steve,” the ad says, have no intention of
having children, but enjoy their “command centre”
IKEA kitchen and herb garden.
The
catalogue, says a pro-family Christian group, “promotes
the extreme ideology of homosexual activists.”
Fronda, a Catholic magazine, is encouraging readers
to write to the company to protest and reports that
readers have already sent hundreds of e-mails and
faxes to IKEA demanding an explanation and that the
company alter the catalogue.
Nevertheless,
the IKEA spokesman in Poland, Karolina Horoszczaková,
said that homosexuals are part of modern society and
the company will not change the ad. “Homosexuality
is one of the elements of life in modern society.
Our company cannot ignore this.”
The
ad tells customers, “Family
life is changing ... Welcome to the new era.”
Grzegorz
Upper, Fronda editor in chief, said that IKEA is promoting
a lifestyle “which is not worthy of public promotion.”
“This
[ad campaign] is connected with the strategy
of accustoming people to homosexual relationships
and then of legalising such relationships. This is
done to establish their image in society as equal
and then to legalise them.”
Fronda,
a monthly Catholic magazine, is the work of a group
of young Polish writers, philosophers, poets, artists
and literati. The editors say their journal “takes
Catholicism seriously and tries to strengthen it through
a bold choice of topics, authors, and arguments.”
They
have offered readers a model for a letter to be sent
to IKEA, encouraging them to boycott the popular company
with the simple message: “Your company ... quite
clearly aligns [Ian and Steve] as one of the acceptable
models of the family. For me, your customer, this
is not acceptable.”
“The
promotion of homosexual unions adversely affects the
institutions of the family, motherhood or fatherhood
that are so important for the public.” The letter
tells the company that the erosion of the value of
natural marriage, “which in accordance with
the law is a union between a man and a woman,”
is unacceptable, “especially at a time in which
the family is in crisis,” particularly with
the births of fewer and fewer children. The letter
warns IKEA that the drop in the birth rate will affect
the company’s future business in Poland.
Strongly
Catholic Poland is under constant
pressure from high-powered homosexualist lobby groups,
entrenched in the European Union and United Nations
bureaucracies, to accept and legalise homosexual relationships
as the equivalent of natural marriage. In 2007,
in a debate in the European Parliament, Poland was
denounced as “hateful” and “repulsive”
for its defence of the family when the country refused
to allow the promotion of homosexuality in schools.
A
vote was held approving an EU Parliament resolution
chastising Poland for “homophobia” and
calling for a fact-finding mission to be sent to Poland
and for the “worldwide de-criminalisation of
homosexuality.” The Parliament threatened to
take the country to the international courts for failing
to implement the homosexualist agenda in its laws.
In
April this year, an international committee at the
UN Human Rights Council in Geneva questioned the Polish
delegation on their country’s refusal to legalise
same-sex partnerings and abortion, calling it a
violation of human rights.
To contact the IKEA representative in Poland:
+48 22 720 46 46
Read
related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
European
Parliament Passes Resolution Vowing to Take 'Homophobic'
Countries to Court
Poland
Pressured on Abortion and Sexual Orientation by UN
Human Rights Committee
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