Posted on 01/12/2002 2:14:54 PM PST by GrandMoM
Appointed by our "Christian Conservative President"
If this had been a Clinton appointment this forum would be on fire about this..instead the freeple sheeple shrug..so what if we insult a Christian Nation...So What??
Ambassador Michael Guest
[Official Biography}
Michael Guest took up his duties as the new U.S. Ambassador to Romania on September 24, 2001. A 20-year career veteran of the U.S. diplomatic service, Mr. Guest has specialized in European affairs. His expertise is concentrated on security policy, including NATO, and on strengthening civic society and the rule of law.
Mr. Guest joined the Foreign Service in 1981 and was posted to the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong shortly thereafter. From 1983 to 1985, he worked on political-military issues in the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, serving for part of that period as a member of the U.S. delegation to arms control negotiations with the then-Soviet Union. He was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as a Political Officer in 1987, returning to Washington in 1989 to take up new duties as Deputy Director for Political Affairs in the Office of European Security and Political Affairs. In that capacity he exercised responsibility for political discussions at NATO; organized U.S. participation in the then-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the "Two-plus-Four" talks which eventually gave rise to Germanys reunification. In 1991, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France as Deputy Political Counselor. He later served (1996-99) as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague in the Czech Republic, working with the host government on many of the same issues that are current in Romania.
Before coming to Bucharest, Mr. Guest served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs at the Department of State from January through May 2001. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing, on a day-to-day basis, the Department of States dialogue with Congress on foreign policy issues. He served previously in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary since May 1999. Mr. Guest also has served as Assistant Press Secretary at the White House (1985-86) and, from 1994-96, as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department.
Mr. Guest holds a Masters Degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Science from Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). Before joining the Foreign Service, he also pursued postgraduate studies in international economics at the University of Toulouse in Toulouse, France.
He is 43 years old.
Would appointing a Catholic ambassador be an insult to an Orthodox nation? What about an atheist? Maybe they don't like Jews either. Or women in positions of authority. Maybe we should ask them who they would be willing to accept as the ambassador of the most powerful nation in the world, just so we don't accidentally offend them.
Well, I think it'd be pretty asinine (no pun intended) to send a homosexual as an emissary to the Vatican for the same reason why this is a bad idea.
I'm simply astounded.
Homosexuality is a severe and disturbing disorder which is typically derived from some psychological trauma so devastating that the individual can longer recognize their own sex despite the obvious evidence that God has placed in front of them.
There has never been any viable evidence to prove contrary to this fact.
The shocking nature of homosexuality is not only offensive to the savy, stable psyche, it it an affront to nature itself.
The decent into to homosexual lifestyle, the "Great Gay Lie" is a path sown with deception, depression, disease and paved with the misery of friends, family and loved ones. The corruption promoted by the militant homosexual lobby feeds this cycle of despair with the lives of our innocent loved ones.
Those afflicted with this life-destroying malady need to seek both psychological and if necessary medical help immediately.
Until such occurs on a wide spread scale, "Fluffy" is going to remain one nervous little critter...
Keep looking you miss the point
And the point is?
Well, what we have here can't prove that or it's opposite. However, if the Romanians don't care (the fact that they have Orthodox officials at every public event would indicate otherwise), then it wouldn't be a flagrant insult, at least.
I would think the people who support the EU wholeheartedly have slightly different priorities than the Eastern Orthodox Church and its adherents. As for the Romanians themselves...
Just needed repeating. Are YOU listening ruggers?
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