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‘Barbarities’: Ecuador’s president castigates ‘absurd’ and ‘dangerous’ gender ideology

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In his last public address of 2013, Ecuador ’s left wing president, Rafael Correa criticized gender ideology , calling it “absurd” and “very dangerous.” “That natural men and women don’t exist, that biological sex does not determine man or woman, but ‘social conditions’ do, and that one has a right to choose if one is a man or a woman. Please! Come on! This won’t live up even to a minor analysis!” exclaimed the president. Ecuador President Rafael Correa “These are not theories,” he continued, “but pure and simple ideologies.” He warned the public that these “ideologies” exist to “justify the lifestyle of those who generate them.” “We respect them as persons,” he explained. “But we don’t share these barbarities.”  He also said he was in favor of the feminist movement that seeks equal rights for men and women. “We support it wholeheartedly,” he said.  Nevertheless, he declared himself against “fundamentalisms that propose absurd things.” This, he s...

Socialist president of Ecuador rejects homosexual ‘marriage’ and adoption as contrary to nature

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Ecuador’s socialist president Rafael Correa has announced his opposition to homosexual “ marriage ” and adoption of children in an interview with the Ecuadoran television channel RTS, saying that the latter is contrary to nature and to the welfare of children. “I’m not in agreement with the adoption of children on the part of couples of the same sex, because I think that nature has to be given its due, and children should be in a traditional family, constituted by a man and a woman,” Correa reportedly said. Calling the family “the foundation of the society,” Correa told RTS that “one can’t be carried along by fashions. One must be led by principles, values, beliefs,” and described himself as “very progressive in the economic and social sense, but rather conservative regarding moral issues.” Noting that the Ecuadoran constitution already has provisions for homosexual civil unions, and that he has never supported homosexual “marriage,” Correa added that such proposals are “foolishnes...