MIAMI, United States. — Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke out this Wednesday in favor of Family Codewhich will be submitted to a popular referendum next Sunday, September 25.
Raúl Castro’s successor expressed on social networks that the approval of the law would fill a legal vacuum that will benefit thousands of people.
“The Family Code is the hope of thousands of people marked by painful stories of exclusion and silence. Human beings who have suffered and suffer from the gaps in our laws. On September 25, I vote Yes. For them and for Cuba,” the president wrote in Twitter.
The new law that will take referendum has generated divisions in different sectors of Cuban society. Although some have been in favor of approving the new rights included in the Family Code, including the much publicized same-sex marriage, others maintain that voting Yes would give the Island regime a boost of legitimacy.
On the other hand, the Church has been openly against the conjugal union of people of the same sex.
“We believe that our people, in the matter that concerns us, was very clear in the discussion prior to the approval of the current Constitution of 2019. It is an undeniable finding that the majority of Cubans wanted the definition of marriage to be maintained as the union of a man and a woman, as it appears in the current Family Code of 1975”, Cuban bishops pointed out in a statement issued on September 12, 2022.
In this sense, the religious authority of the Island has made it clear on more than one occasion that the Family Code is permeated by “gender ideology”, a concept that, according to the church itself, seeks nothing more than “ distort reality.
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