By Peter J. Smith
AMSTERDAM, August 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dutch embassies will investigate homosexual rights in all of its 36 “partner countries” receiving foreign aid, and pressure many of those nations to decriminalise homosexual behaviour under a plan supported by the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
The Dutch journal, Volkskrant, reports that Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation, has launched the inquiry, which will require embassy officials to investigate not only the legal status of homosexuality, but also the level of social acceptance of homosexuality and how possibly to increase that acceptance in the populace.
Dutch embassies will lobby governments in countries outlawing homosexual behaviour to scrap anti-homosexual legislation. Of the Netherlands 36 partner countries, 18 penalise homosexual acts in some way and 3 others permit the death penalty.
Koenders expects to conclude his investigation within a few months; however, the Minister has been quick to emphasise that the results of his investigation will not immediately lead to any sort of financial coercion on countries out-of-sync with the Netherlands pro-homosexual agenda.
“We are not going to cut development funds or halt aid just like that,” a spokesman for Koenders told Volkskrant, saying the Minister prefers “to keep the dialogue open.”
However the information is likely to be used by Koenders to advance the Dutch homosexualist ideology in other countries. The Minister for Development Cooperation has a history of bullying the Netherlands’ “partner countries” that are at odds with Dutch social policy. Just this June, Koenders threatened Nicaragua with the prospect of cutting off foreign aid that comes from the Netherlands and the European Union if it did not reverse its total ban on abortion. (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jun/07062805.html)
The Netherlands indomitable commitment to expanding its homosexualist influence was further underlined in April, when the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that Aruba and the Dutch Antilles must accept homosexual “marriage” despite native laws and traditional morality condemning homosexual behaviour. (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/apr/07041804.html)
Homosexual “marriage” has been legal in the Netherlands since 2001.
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