Cuba legalizes identical-sex marriage in referendum, will permit gay partners to undertake

Brady Knox

September 26, 06:30 PM September 26, 06:30 PM

Cuba voted to legalize similar-sexual intercourse marriage in a referendum, also generating it lawful for homosexual partners to adopt children.

The referendum handed with 94% of votes currently being counted at a virtually 2 to 1 margin, with 3,936,790 voting in favor and 1,950,090 towards, CNN noted. The vote in favor will see an overhaul in the family members code, which has been the law of the land because the communist revolution in 1959. The new family members code, at 100 pages, went as a result of more than two dozen drafts and several hours of debate, according to the BBC.

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The legalization is a far cry from the persecution gay persons faced in Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s, when they were being sent to labor camps for "re-schooling." Homosexuality was legalized in 1979, but homosexual folks however complain of open up discrimination.

The opposition to the referendum came mainly from conservatives and religious teams, such as Cuba's evangelical churches.

The referendum is thought of to be an effort and hard work by the Cuban govt to cleanse up its human legal rights file subsequent a brutal crackdown on protests very last calendar year, in accordance to the BBC.