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When it comes to equal marriage, it is generally badumed that it is policies promoted by left-wing or liberal groups and formations, but in the Cuban revolution, there is still strong opposition to the same-bad union.
] Five evangelical denominations on the Caribbean Island, the Evangelical League of Cuba, the Baptist Convention of the West, the Eastern Baptist Convention, the Methodist Church of Cuba and the Church of the Evangelical Assembly of God; They made a joint denunciation this week in which they rejected the so-called "gender ideology" since it is linked to "historical leaders of the Revolution," reports the New Herald.
As if it was a paradox, this rejection of homobadual marriage occurs without renouncing Cuban socialism. "We want to sensitize the authorities to the danger that equal marriage can bring to the nation," said Dariel Llanes Quintana, president of the Western Baptist Convention, at the Nuevo Herald
CARTA MAGNA
Cuba could open the door to marriage egalitarian in his new Constitution
Sex education is promoted on the island since 1975 by the CCP, when it is declared as a state obligation.
In 2008, the Cuban government authorized badual surgeries. That year, the first of these interventions was carried out
Although the evangelical temples do not belong to the Council of Churches of Cuba, they asked the leaders of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP) not to allow the introduction of this policy. the country
In their official statement, they recall that "the ideology of gender" has no connection with the communist countries.
"You can not take from capitalism what suits you. If the country is communist, it is communist, "said Ricardo Pereira Díaz, of the Methodist Church.
" In a country like ours where education is ruled by the US, State and where there is no alternative, take a child learn something that is contrary to their faith, it is violate their free will, "added the religious, who fears that "The ideology of gender" is taught in public schools.
According to these groups, more than 60% of the Cuban population opposes same-bad marriage.
Although evangelical churches have experienced rapid growth on the island since the 1990s, some of them, like the Metropolitan Christian Church, are open to the community LGBTI
For its part, the activist Víctor Manuel Dueñas accuses equal marital opponents who have forgotten that Christians were being persecuted in communist countries. they should study a little history, "he says
CENESEX
The reaction of these religious leaders manifests itself on the one hand in opposition to ideology supposedly of the kind promoted by the Education Center. Sexual (Cenebad), led by Raúl Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro.
For years, Cenebad has already realized during the month of May the so-called "Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia".
On the last day, prizes were awarded to the English activist for the rights of the LGBTI community, Mike Jackson, and to the Spanish actress Carla Antonelli, the official Granma newspaper reported to the # 39; era.
Cenebad has also been tasked with promoting bad education. of schools and realized the Cuban Congress of Education, Guidance and Sexual Therapy, which had its eighth edition this year.
For Castro the school plays a fundamental role in teaching homophobia and transphobia, to prevent violence, rejection and abuse of children and adolescents whose characteristics do not look like what they do. they call "heteronormativity".
However, the importance of bad education is not new phenomenon in the island because since 1975 the CCP has declared that it was an obligation of the & # 39; 39; State.
In addition, in 2008, the government authorized badual surgeries. That year, the first of these interventions was carried out
CONSTITUTION
The main concern of evangelical and religious groups opposed to equal marriage are the doors that can be opened to the LGBTI community. of the Magna Carta that the new Cuban government realizes, and to which Mariela Castro is also involved.
"In the Constitution there is a space on opportunities, rights, in which LGBTI people must also be involved.", The daughter of the former president of Cuba told the AFP
Among the issues that may be subject to reform is the union between people of the same bad, according to Mariela Castro, the new Magna Carta will open a "
And President Miguel Díaz-Canel ? The current president is known for his defense of the cultural center & # 39; El Mejunje, considered as the LGBTI movement's reference space on the island.
EL PASADO CUBANO
Cuba was not always open to the LGBTI community because after the triumph of the revolution in 1959, badual minorities were persecuted by the government of the deceased leader Fidel Castro.
"Our society can not accept these degenerations," Castro said in 1963, in reference to homobaduals, What he considered a weakness of the revolution
In an interview with the Mexican newspaper La Jornada in 2010, an old Castro confessed his responsibility in the persecution that he had then undertaken against badual minorities. "If you have to take responsibility, I guess mine, I'm not going to blame others," he said.
"Yes, these are times of great injustice, a great injustice! In spite of this, the deceased Cuban leader tried to justify this persecution because at that time there were many "life and death problems", such as "escaping from the CIA ", the" traitors "or the" war with the Yankees "
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Towards a New Constitution [19659002] ] With the arrival of Miguel Diaz-Canel as President, Cuba is preparing to reform a constitution that would seek to integrate economic, political and social changes in the Caribbean island.
The current Magna Carta was approved in 1975, although it was amended by the Cuban National Assembly in the years 1992 and 2002.
L & # 39; former Cuban President Raúl Castro, who was proposed by Díaz-Canel himself, will be responsible for implementing the changes. This commission is made up of 33 members in total.
This commission, headed by Castro, recently concluded the VII Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), where they badyzed the "Draft Constitution of the Republic". the official journal "Granma".
In addition, the National Assembly requested the badysis of the project on July 21.
Despite the changes introduced in the document, the CCP plans to remain in the Magna Carta the "fundamental precepts of our socialist system".
Among the possible reforms proposed by the new document would be the limitation of two-term public and political positions, with which Díaz-Canel could only remain in charge of Cuba because of two legislatures
Another possible measure is the Introduction of the figure of the Prime Minister, a measure that has been envisaged since 2011.
Also, according to the daughter of the Castro minor, Mariela Castro, could also be included in the document marriage between people of the same bad .
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