Cuba legalizes same-sex marriage in referendum, will enable homosexual {couples} to undertake

Cuba voted to legalize same-sex marriage in a referendum, additionally making it authorized for homosexual couples to undertake kids.

The referendum handed with 94% of votes being counted at an almost 2 to 1 margin, with 3,936,790 voting in favor and 1,950,090 in opposition to, CNN reported. The vote in favor will see an overhaul within the household code, which has been the legislation of the land because the communist revolution in 1959. The brand new household code, at 100 pages, went via over two dozen drafts and hours of debate, in accordance with the BBC.

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The legalization is a far cry from the persecution homosexual individuals confronted in Cuba within the Sixties and Seventies, after they had been despatched to labor camps for "re-education." Homosexuality was legalized in 1979, however homosexual individuals nonetheless complain of open discrimination.

The opposition to the referendum got here primarily from conservatives and spiritual teams, together with Cuba's evangelical church buildings.

The referendum is taken into account to be an effort by the Cuban authorities to wash up its human rights file following a brutal crackdown on protests final yr, in accordance with the BBC.