The United Nations (UN) is under fire today for a recent ad campaign which features Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her words to promote a new public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.
LifeSiteNews is reporting on the story written by Susan Yoshihara of C-FAM, The Center for Family and Human Rights, which describes the UN’s new “Free and Equal” campaign which features two pictures of Mother Teresa on its “World Leaders” page. Her pictures and words are included on a list of UN bureaucrats that include the names of controversial leaders such as South African Anglican prelate Desmond Tutu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Beneath her pictures are the words, “If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other,” and “What can you do for world peace? Go home and love your family.”
Yoshihara calls the ad misleading: “It’s not truthful to use that quote from her in this campaign, when the family she is referring to is clearly one with a mother and a father loving their children.”
The whole campaign is a fraud, she says, but is not surprised that the UN would mislead people by suggesting that someone as devout as Mother Teresa would have ever embraced the homosexual agenda.
Instead, Mother Teresa fully embraced Church teaching on homosexuality and showed nothing but love and care for the homosexuals who crossed her path.
“She loved homosexuals, and the Missionaries of Charity of San Francisco were helping victims of AIDS before anyone else would touch them,” Yoshihara pointed out. “The Missionaries of Charity in Manhattan have been caring for AIDS victims for decades.”
She added: “If what this campaign stood for was really true, they wouldn’t need to lie about Mother Teresa, who was always faithful to the Magisterium [the teaching authority of the Catholic Church].”
Mother Teresa is scheduled to be recognized as a saint next year, something that never would have happened if there was any hint that she embraced the homosexual lifestyle.
In fact, the Sisters of Charity in India are currently involved in a dispute with the government for withdrawing from the adoption business because of efforts to force them to arranging adoptions for single persons.
Sister Amala, who serves as the head of the sisters’ orphanage in New Delhi, recently told the Indian Express that “the new guidelines hurt our conscience. They are certainly not for religious people like us. What if the single parent who we give our baby turns out to be gay or lesbian? What security or moral upbringing will these children get? Our rules only allow married couples to adopt.”
For this reason, the UN agency responsible for including Mother Teresa in their new campaign should immediately “take her down off their website because she would never have supported something contrary to Catholic teaching,” Yoshihara writes.
Father Shenan J. Boquet, president of Human Life International, agrees with Yoshihara’s position.
“It is highly offensive to Catholics that this United Nations ‘public education campaign’ would so blatantly and intentionally misrepresent Blessed Mother Teresa’s great love for others,” he told LifeSiteNews. “They know she opposed what this U.N. program is about, which is using emotional manipulation to promote a destructive and immoral lifestyle as if it were good. They owe the Church an apology, and these offensive images should be removed immediately.”
Neither the United Nations Human Rights Office nor the Missionaries of Charity responded to LifeSiteNews by publication time.
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