The Life and Family Coalition has called on the population to join the territorial demonstration that seeks to “stop the ‘gender’ dictatorship in Puerto Rico.”
The initiative arose after Governor Pedro Pierluisi issued an executive order to implement in public schools an updated version of the “Gender Perspective curriculum,” created by the administration of former Governor Alejandro García Padilla, which was rejected by the people of Puerto Rico in public marches in 2015.
The bishops pointed out that Christians are also citizens who need to “enjoy adequate freedom and the facilities provided by the state,” and therefore, they have the same right and capacity as everyone to “claim from the legitimate authorities of the same state, their right to live and act in accordance with their convictions and their conscience.”
The Puerto Rican bishops stressed that parents and the faithful have the legitimate right to be able to educate their children “without being subjected in public schools to ideologies that directly attack their convictions and sensibilities.”
Finally, they asked the protesters to participate “without allowing themselves to be provoked, nor used by those who, even within the religious sphere, may have other agendas that lead to disrespect” to any person “due to their personal conditions, disability, origin, religion, affective tendencies.” This includes all kinds of “harassment, violence, insults and unjust discrimination.”
In December 2020 Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres of Arecibo asked Pierluisi to stop the imposition of gender ideology in the territory. In February Bishop Fernández expressed his opposition to bills 184 and 185 that seek to impose this ideology, and warned of religious persecution on the island.
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