In an interview in September with SIC, a faith-based High Definition program, and assuming his sexual orientation, the defeated candidate for the leadership of the SDP paradoxically stated that he did not believe that the sexual orientation of a politician had any relation to society, stating: “In Portugal, I really do not doing. And to be honest, I don’t think this is something now that everything is easier. I don’t think it will be in the 80s or 90s. “
At the time, I wrote about Rangel’s interviews and these surprising statements, recalling, among other things, that I not only voted in 2008 against same-sex couples’ access to civil marriage, but also entered the SDP in 2005 as a candidate. to the deputy (and from there – to the leader of the bench) in the campaign for the legislature, in which his party used a letter of homophobia against then-PS leader José Socrates – in other words, at a time when he could only have lingered (painful?). Of course, in the SDP, at least, the sexual orientation of a politician was and should be in a bad sense “relevant to society.”
It is of course important to keep these facts in mind because Rangel, contrary to what he and others would like us to believe, did not just remain silent about his sexual orientation until 2021 – a right he apparently has – and did not exercise. a campaign for gay rights; he was an agent and accomplice of homophobia. By the way, continues to demonstrate this complicity in the aforementioned interview, never even using the word homophobia, thereby erasing the suffering that this cause (caused) and will cause, and excluding both his own history and the history of his party in promoting the same homophobia and therefore not cause this suffering.
This complicity – and dishonesty – of Rangela was joined by all those who resented the likes of me, who remembered this register of gay rights politicians, in other words, human rights. Therefore, it is especially ironic to see people like Publisher do Observer, Jose Manuel Fernandez, who during the “exposure” claimed that this topic did not interest him at all – “Paulo Rangel is a homosexual. What have I got to do with it?“– and that a Social Democrat, being a homosexual, was not obliged to combat prejudice against homosexuals by speaking of an “elephant in the room” to explain the defeat of PSD right-wing forces.
Saddened, Jose Manuel Fernandez now admit this bias: “I know the country in which I live.” And he goes so far as to accuse: “The Left, which was so bitter against Rangel, did not realize that they were a little reactionary.”
So the JMF, who says that a politician who is (and comes out) homosexual does not matter, that “his ideas are important,” suddenly began to think that if this politician assumes that he is homosexual, then the “left” will not be. make. do not know how to criticize your ideas?
It’s not that the strong man Observer to be known for his harsh analysis, but even for him such somersaults are laughable. Because he is known, like many of Rangel’s most famous supporters, for his tireless struggle against what he calls “politically correct”, and in general for all measures and actions aimed at combating prejudice and making life historically correct. discriminated against groups are easier, here he suddenly denounces this discrimination – because it serves as an excuse for what is unforgivable and inconvenient for him: Rangel’s defeat against Rio.
The despair and confusion of the Rangelists is so great that they even assure us (I came across this statement on Twitter from a young Social Democrat) that Rio’s victory is a victory for “everything else conservative” – because of Rangel’s homosexuality, of course.
As if Rui Rio was a conservative advocate; as if he, for example, did not support the right to euthanasia, I want to vote would you like signing a manifesto (and arrival be threatened with disciplinary proceedings party, for granting freedom to vote to the Social Democratic parliamentary bench when voting on a proposed referendum on the issue), rather than one of the three Social Democratic MPs who voted for women’s right to abortion in 1998. , then in the 2007 referendum campaigning yes… And as if Rangel, in addition to being a notorious conservative (now he has come to say that he has been advocating same-sex marriage since 2010.but nobody noticed; we do not even know what his position is on the issue of adoption, which was voted for in parliament in 2013 and 2015, when the SDP was always against, there were practically no more and more conservative names, in terms of customs, from the SDP, from Cavaco to Ferreira Leite, passing through the president of the republic, who, as is known, showed his support to humiliation by receiving him in Belem, while in San Bento Rio he failed the state budget.
It remains only to see one of Rangel’s most famous supporters, a former MP, former head of the Passos administration and current leader, nothing more than a conservative movement. Born on July 5, Miguel Morgado complains of homophobic bias against Rangel. Miguel Morgado of Leave the Kids Alone, who ripped off his clothes in 2019 in the face of news that an LGBT youth association went to a public school to give a lecture on equality to 11-year-olds empowered by their parents on sexual orientation and then signed a request for verification of the constitutionality of the gender identity diploma. Ladies: If you want to complain about homophobia, look in the mirror.
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