"Es una falta de respeto, de consideración, que nos envíen esa clase de persona como embajador", dijo por su parte el vicario, monseñor Pablo Cedano de la República Dominicana. _______________________________________________ Appointment of gay US ambassador On 27 June 2013, when he was being interviewed after the blessing of a government office during its reopening, a journalist asked him about Barack Obama 's appointment of James "Wally" Brewster, an open homosexual, as U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic (D.R.), Lopez Rodriguez expressed his opposition to the appointment of a homosexual ambassador, claiming that what is sought is to promote the approval of same-sex marriages in the D.R. Moments later another journalist asked him about a diplomatic and commercial impasse between Haiti and the D.R. after Haiti, claiming the presence of bird flu in the D.R., vetoed the import of Dominican poultry meat and eggs. Cardinal López Rodríguez laughe
