Originally published in the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo (in Portuguese)
Cláudia Collucci from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Almost two months after the STJ (Superior Court) to recognize that gay couples have the right to adopt, 51% of Brazilians say they are against this practice. Another 39% are in favor of adoption by gays.
This was revealed Datafolha survey conducted between 20 and 21 May with 2660 respondents across the country. The margin of error of two percentage points more or less.
Women are more tolerant of gay adoption than men: 44% vs. 33%. Just as young people in relation to older people: aged between 16 and 24 years, the practice is supported by 58%, while among those 60 years or more, only 19%.
"It's a breakthrough. In the Middle Ages, were burned. Then, taken as criminals and patients. The fact that almost 40% of the population support gay adoption is great news," said Toni Reis, president of ABGLT (Brazilian Association Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender).
He acknowledges, however, that prejudice is still great. "It will require many parades and marches to convince people that we are citizens who deserve the right of fatherhood and motherhood."
The rate of people in favor of gay adoption grows with income (49% among those receiving more than ten times the minimum wage from 35% among those earning up to two floors) and education (50% among those with higher education and 28% elementary education).
For lawyer Maria Berenice Dias, Chief Judge of the Court of RS, the trend is that the decision from the Supreme Court serves as a case for future actions and that it gradually motivate more people to approve the adoption by homosexuals.
"Most of the Brazilian population is still conservative, but it was worse."
Between religions, Catholics are the most "progressive": 41% declare themselves in favor of gay adoption and 47% opposed. Among Pentecostals, disapproval reaches the highest rate: 71%, versus only 22% favorable.
Father Luiz Antônio Bento, adviser to the commission for life and family CNBB (National Conference of Bishops of Brazil), states that adoption by homosexuals violates the right of the child to grow up in a family environment made up of father and mother, and this can bring "psychological problems for the child."
Psychologist Ana Bahia Bock, a professor at Catholic University of São Paulo, disagrees. "The issue is cultural. If a child lives with people who see a natural [the sexuality of parents], it gives a positive meaning to experience."
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Police investigating the action of skinheads against gays in Rio de Janeiro
Originally published in the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo on 7/06/2010.
Counting points gangs as responsible for attacks in the south, in Nova Iguaçu and in Niteroi.
For police, the group may be linked to torture and murder of 14 year old boy in Sao Goncalo, two weeks ago.
ITALO NOGUEIRA
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Posters in defense of the "straight pride" and pamphlets against the bill criminalizing homophobia were scattered around the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro by groups of skinheads.
For the Rio police, these gangs are responsible for a series of attacks on homosexuals in the south zone of Rio, in Nova Iguaçu, Niterói and São Gonçalo.
Police say they do not know how many gays were victims of skinheads, who organize the web. But if he determines Alexander Ivo, 14, tortured and killed two weeks ago in Saint Mary, was the victim of homophobic attack.
He and friends attending a party when he started an argument with another group. After the fight, with verbal and physical, the friends of Alexander went to the police station to register complaints and returned to the party.
Around 1:30 a.m., the boy left alone. Has not been seen. The next day his body was found in a vacant lot. He had been suffocated and had lesions in the skull, possibly caused by rocks and beatings with iron bars.
The police came to suspect by the Hotline. Determines whether the crime was motivated by homophobia or the fight. For the mother of Ivo, Ivo Angelica Vidal, 40, he "suffered the aggression being around homosexuals."
The three involved, Allan Siqueira de Freitas, 22, Andre Luiz Macola, 23, Eric DeBruim, 22, arrested preemptively deny the crime and links with skinheads.
The State Secretariat for Human Rights follows the investigations of Rio and NGOs organized march against crime. Ivo's friends say, however, who were threatened. "Someone called me and said it would kill me if I came," said one boy.
The Office for the Repression of Crimes Computers claims to systematic patrols to shut down sites that advocate homophobia.
"We got no defense when the clear assaults or murders, because it is incitement to crime. But a law against homophobia, as there is racism, it would facilitate our action," says Helen delegated Sardenberg.
HOMOSEXUALITY
By e-mail, a representative group of bald Rio Brazil (present in at least nine states) told Folha do not feel hatred for homosexuals, but "as much intolerance as any Catholic or evangelical." The group denies involvement in the death of Ivo.
"Our position is against homosexuality, not against homosexuals."
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I, as an evangelical Christian, I have the same position that the Bible has on the subject. But I find it unacceptable that people are tortured and killed for being or having ideas different from ours.
In Brazil, the bill against homophobia, which makes homophobic attacks amounting to crimes of racism, a felony. But the project is controversial and a very large number of Christians are against it. While discussing the attacks motivated by victim's sexual orientation may be considered biased attacks framed the law of racism, young people are dying like this. This must end.
Counting points gangs as responsible for attacks in the south, in Nova Iguaçu and in Niteroi.
For police, the group may be linked to torture and murder of 14 year old boy in Sao Goncalo, two weeks ago.
ITALO NOGUEIRA
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Posters in defense of the "straight pride" and pamphlets against the bill criminalizing homophobia were scattered around the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro by groups of skinheads.
For the Rio police, these gangs are responsible for a series of attacks on homosexuals in the south zone of Rio, in Nova Iguaçu, Niterói and São Gonçalo.
Police say they do not know how many gays were victims of skinheads, who organize the web. But if he determines Alexander Ivo, 14, tortured and killed two weeks ago in Saint Mary, was the victim of homophobic attack.
He and friends attending a party when he started an argument with another group. After the fight, with verbal and physical, the friends of Alexander went to the police station to register complaints and returned to the party.
Around 1:30 a.m., the boy left alone. Has not been seen. The next day his body was found in a vacant lot. He had been suffocated and had lesions in the skull, possibly caused by rocks and beatings with iron bars.
The police came to suspect by the Hotline. Determines whether the crime was motivated by homophobia or the fight. For the mother of Ivo, Ivo Angelica Vidal, 40, he "suffered the aggression being around homosexuals."
The three involved, Allan Siqueira de Freitas, 22, Andre Luiz Macola, 23, Eric DeBruim, 22, arrested preemptively deny the crime and links with skinheads.
The State Secretariat for Human Rights follows the investigations of Rio and NGOs organized march against crime. Ivo's friends say, however, who were threatened. "Someone called me and said it would kill me if I came," said one boy.
The Office for the Repression of Crimes Computers claims to systematic patrols to shut down sites that advocate homophobia.
"We got no defense when the clear assaults or murders, because it is incitement to crime. But a law against homophobia, as there is racism, it would facilitate our action," says Helen delegated Sardenberg.
HOMOSEXUALITY
By e-mail, a representative group of bald Rio Brazil (present in at least nine states) told Folha do not feel hatred for homosexuals, but "as much intolerance as any Catholic or evangelical." The group denies involvement in the death of Ivo.
"Our position is against homosexuality, not against homosexuals."
*-*-*-*
I, as an evangelical Christian, I have the same position that the Bible has on the subject. But I find it unacceptable that people are tortured and killed for being or having ideas different from ours.
In Brazil, the bill against homophobia, which makes homophobic attacks amounting to crimes of racism, a felony. But the project is controversial and a very large number of Christians are against it. While discussing the attacks motivated by victim's sexual orientation may be considered biased attacks framed the law of racism, young people are dying like this. This must end.
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