Brazilian activists and celebrities have condemned a court ruling that approves a “cure” for gay people.<\/p>\n
Waldemar de Carvalho, a federal judge in the capital Brasilia, backed a psychologist who had her licence revoked for offering so-called “conversion therapy”.<\/p>\n
Rozangela Justino is an evangelical Christian who has called homosexuality “a disease”.<\/p>\n
Critics have called the ruling regressive and medically unsound.<\/p>\n
Brazil’s Federal Council of Psychology banned psychologists from offering treatments that claim to change people’s sexuality in 1999.<\/p>\n
It said in a statement that the decision “opens the dangerous possibility of the use of sexual reversion therapies” and promised to fight it in court.<\/p>\n
Prominent pop star Anitta shared her disgust in an online video, which has been watched by over a million people. <\/p>\n
“That’s what happens in my country. People dying, hungry, the government killing the country with corruption, no education, no hospitals, no opportunities… and the authorities are wasting their time to announce that homosexuality is a sickness,” she said. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what happens in my country. People dying, hungry, the government killing the country with corruption, no education, no hospitals, no opportunities… and the authorities are wasting their time to announce that homosexuality is a sickness. Homosexuals and bisexuals now have a treatment for this “sickness” here. So I ask… who is the real sick person here? I’m praying God that these real sick people find the cure of these crazy minds and start to look at the real important things here. \/ O Brasil se devastando e as autoridades preocupadas com quem queremos nos relacionar. Isso precisa acabar. Deus, cure a doen\u00e7a da cabe\u00e7a do ser humano que n\u00e3o enxerga os verdadeiros problemas de uma na\u00e7\u00e3o. Pais, n\u00e3o obriguem seus filhos a procurarem cura pra uma doen\u00e7a que n\u00e3o existe, baseados neste fato pol\u00edtico. Essa busca intermin\u00e1vel sim pode deixa-los realmente doentes.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Ivete Sangolo, another of Brazil’s most popular singers, wrote on Instagram<\/a>: “The sick ones are those who believe in this great absurdity.”<\/p>\n
Her post has been liked over 236,000 times since it was posted a day ago.<\/p>\n
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On Twitter, many users shared support for the gay community, posting pictures and cartoons condemning the verdict.<\/p>\n
“Of course, because in this country it is more important to ‘cure’ human sexuality than to treat prejudice,” one man wrote<\/a> in Portuguese. <\/p>\n
“There’s no cure for what is not a disease,” others tweeted, using the hashtag #curagay (“gay cure”). <\/p>\n
That view was shared by Rog\u00e9rio Giannini, head of the Federal Council of Psychology, who told the UK’s Guardian newspaper there was no medical basis for the alleged therapy. <\/p>\n
“It is not a serious, academic debate, it is a debate connected to religious or conservative positions,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Brazil is seeing growing push-back from conservative Christians over progressive policies which they see as an affront to traditional values.<\/p>\n
They have protested against gay characters in TV soap operas, and got an art exhibition on gender and sexual diversity shut down last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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