Marriage equality wins in Cuba as voters approve LGBTQ measures

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Cuban voters have voted in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples, despite opposition from evangelicals and anti-gay communists.

Roughly 67 percent of voters in the September 25 referendum supported the measures as part of updating the island nation’s four-decade-old “family code.” It’s unclear when the revised code will go into effect.

The newly reformed code will also allow surrogate pregnancies; give greater parental rights for grandparents, extended, and nontraditional families; outlaw various forms of child abuse; offer enhanced protections for women and elderly people targeted by violence; and forbid people from encouraging minors “not to fulfill their duties related to respect for and love of the homeland.”

The vote was noteworthy because the Cuban government has..

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