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appalachiablue

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2. BBC, Cuban President Backs Same-Sex Marriage

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Mon Sep 17, 2018, 01:51 PM

Sep 2018

..It comes as Cuba is in the process of updating its constitution, which had defined marriage as between "a man and a woman."
The proposed constitution will replace the 1976 national charter once a popular consultation is concluded and the draft has been approved in a national referendum scheduled for February 2019.

President Díaz-Canel's endorsement of same-sex marriage is in stark contrast to the persecution homosexuals suffered in the decades following the 1959 Cuban revolution. Official attitudes towards homosexuality on the Communist-run island have changed over the past decades partly thanks to the efforts of Raúl Castro's daughter Mariela.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cuban-president-backs-same-sex-marriage/ar-BBNrY6C

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