The justice committee is expected to take up the civil union measure in coming months, but even supporters say it is unlikely to pass, in part because of strident opposition from Rosas. Rosas said nearly a million signatures against the legislation were delivered to Congress days later. Staver’s Peruvian ally, lawmaker Rosas, was one of the leaders of a “March for Family” in May against the gay civil unions bill. He successfully defended the televangelist from a complaint at the Federal Election Commission that Falwell broke federal election law by calling on his supporters to back President George W.

Staver is a hardened cultural warrior who was a friend and legal advisor to Falwell. “I urged them to stand strong” against abortion and same-sex marriage, the U.S. Staver gave the lawmaker, Julio Rosas, moral support by speaking to an audience of social conservatives at a legal conference in a hall of the Peruvian Congress last November. and Latin American Evangelicals is having some success in Peru, where a conservative lawmaker who is an NHCLC/CONELA officeholder is blocking a bill in Congress that would allow gay civil unions. The many left-leaning governments in Latin America will not be easily swayed by U.S.-backed conservatives and the fight against gay marriage has already been lost in Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico City, which have legalized it in the last four years.īut the alliance of U.S. The new group - known as NHCLC/CONELA and headed by Rodriguez - boasts a network of socially conservative pastors in Latin America who it is asking to be more politically active. That is what ultimately brought about this merger,” Staver told his Faith and Freedom radio show. “Because of what was happening in Latin America and what we are fighting here in America there needed to be a combination to be able to create a firewall for our Judeo-Christian values. Hispanic Evangelical group that they help to run took over one of the region’s oldest Evangelical organizations.

Working together, both men increased their influence in Latin America in April when a U.S.

with televangelist Billy Graham and then “putting a little salsa on top.” who describes his religion as mixing Martin Luther King Jnr. The other is Samuel Rodriguez, a dynamic Latino preacher with strong ties with Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Washington D.C. One of the Americans is veteran legal crusader Mat Staver who was both a disciple of late Moral Majority co-founder Jerry Falwell and the leader of a campaign against the removal of religious symbols from celebrations of Christmas in stores and public buildings. People pray during a ceremony held by Peru's Christian Evangelical churches with political leaders in Lima, July 30, 2014.

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