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Eugene

(61,939 posts)
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:13 AM Sep 2022

Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage

Source: BBC

Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage

26 September 2022

Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a national referendum.

About two-thirds of the population voted to approve reforms in a new Family Code, which will also allow surrogate pregnancies and give gay couples the right to adopt children.

It marks a big moment for Cuba, which saw gay people persecuted and sent to work camps in the 1960s and 70s.

However, there was significant opposition to the reforms among religious groups and conservatives.

The referendum on Sunday was for a new Family Code - a 100-page document which went through more than two dozen drafts and hours of debate in community-level meetings.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63035426

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Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
Castro forced them to vote. Marcus IM Sep 2022 #1
meanwhile we are slowly losing ours . good on them. AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #2
Elections in Cuba? Marcus IM Sep 2022 #3

Marcus IM

(2,219 posts)
1. Castro forced them to vote.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:24 AM
Sep 2022

Castro wrote the referendum.
Castro hand-picked the candidates.
Cubans are only allowed to vote one way.
Etc, etc, etc, etc, ad infinity.



Bravo Cuba! l

Marcus IM

(2,219 posts)
3. Elections in Cuba?
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 01:30 PM
Sep 2022

How many times have I read experts here that there’s no such thing on the dark island of the evil Dr Castro?


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