Since her name was announced as the future Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves receives partial treatment of Brazilian media. Instead of badyzing the facts and decisions made by her, they preferred to attack the fact that she was a pastor and attempted to ridicule her faith by highlighting excerpts of testimonials given to her. church in Brazil.
his name in a strategic file and was known to be closely watched by social movements, mainstream media have tried to call him "religious fanatic", taking into account the context of their lives and how, in as a child victim of pedophilia, saw Jesus on a guava foot
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The memes and distortions of this fact angered the future representative of the country. In an interview with the newspaper Estado de São Paulo, published Sunday (23), Damares said he was surprised by Jair Bolsonaro's invitation.
Anyone who knows the story of the future minister knows that she has a comprehensive curriculum in the areas of human rights advocacy, issues Aboriginals, Abortion and Pedophilia, and was a national lawyer for Senator Magno Malta (PR / ES), but her tireless Congressional work in favor of conservative policies did not go unnoticed by the President. elected. Bolsonaro knew who Damares was and what his potential was, in addition to recognizing a speech made in many of the banners he had raised during this year's campaign.
The Church That Transforms Society
Due to the lack of evangelical missionaries in the northeast, where she was raised, Damares became a very young pastor. He was ordained by the Foursquare church in which his father was founder. He is currently at the Lagoinha Baptist Church. In 2013, during one of the services that she preached, she asked: "The evangelical church has grown too much, amen, but what does it really make to change the society?" Then she herself answered in a prophetic tone: "God is preparing us for a new phase, which is the transformation of society".
Federal representative Sóstenes Cavalcanti (DEM / RJ) reveals that Damares is admired in the evangelical environment. for "his commitment to value life, human rights and conservatives". He thinks that is the wish of the majority of the Brazilian people. "She has the technical skill and experience to be a minister in perfect harmony with Bolsonaro."
Parliamentary Counsel Luiz Carlos Bbaduma, who worked with Damares, said it was in his decision that FUNAI became the responsibility of the who will lead. "I told him, you did not look for him, you did not plead, you can not deny it." It is a spiritual call to fulfill a mission in the nation. "
Damares regards the function of Minister of State as a divine mission, even in this respect he agrees with Bolsonaro, who made a similar statement throughout the campaign and reiterated after the
That does not mean that it will turn the ministry into a church or something like that, and in the first interviews she gave after she was appointed, Damares made it very clear that it did not happen. had nothing to do with the label of "intolerance" that they had tried to impose on him, for example, he vigorously opposed the argument that the portfolio would become a mission agency. "This affirmation of the evangelization of the Indians is absurd. Whoever takes this ministry is a lawyer and a human rights activist. The minister is present Sunday in the church, "he badured, pointing out an important demarcation line.
As a state minister, Damares met with indigenous leaders, LGBTQ groups politicians from a variety of backgrounds and pressures, her legal training is aware of the laws in the country, she has adopted a conciliatory speech, saying that the role is to defend the rights of Human Rights of All Brazilians, in Accordance with the Constitution
His personal convictions, as evangelicals, have always led him to struggle against various types of social injustice, precisely she understands the struggle for justice is a biblical precept.This is all the more obvious as it wants a "Brazil without abortion." After all, the "right to life" should be the third of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the man, but it is provided in the fifth article of the Federal Constitution