The original 2007 text authorized same-sex marriage, however. Deputy Pastor Eurico’s project goes in the opposite direction
Last Tuesday, the 5th, the Committee on Welfare, Social Assistance, Childhood, Adolescence and Family of the Chamber of Deputies studied a bill that aims to prohibit same-sex marriage in Brazil.
The bill was drawn up by Deputy Pastor Eurico and vetoes the chance that this type of union will be compared to heterosexual marriage or seen as a “family entity”.
In 2011, the Federal Supreme Court unanimously recognized the stable union between same-sex couples as a family entity and, in 2013, the National Council of Justice decided that no registry office could reject the celebration of such unions.
Pastor Eurico’s project reverses the 2007 project that proposed the “possibility that two people of the same sex can form a same-sex union by means of a contract in which they provide for their property relations”.
If this project is approved, the Civil Code will state that “under constitutional terms, no relationship between persons of the same sex can be equated to marriage or family entity”, according to information from G1.
In the document, the pastor defended that the Constitution determines that a stable union should only be between a man and a woman and, in relation to the decision of the Supreme Court, the pastor said that “once again, the Brazilian Constitutional Court usurped the competence of the National Congress, exercising legislative activity incompatible with its typical functions”.
Furthermore, the pastor also wrote that same-sex marriage would be “against the truth of the human being”.
Source: Maxima
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