Love Sees No Borders - Sample Letter

Sample Letter to Brazilian Ambassador

Dear Mr. Rubens Antonio Barbosa:

The undersigned organizations and individuals publicly repudiate the pitiful stance adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Santa Catarina State (LASCS), through its Requerimento no 402-01 mandating its delegates at the federal level to position themselves against the Civil Partnership bill introduced by former federal MuP Ms. Marta Suplicy. By affirming their "conviction that the only solution to homosexuality, bisexality and lesbianism is repentance and the abandonment of such practices", Santa Catarina representatives are violating the citizens' fundamental rights and the respect due to differences, sexual orientation among them. The Legislative power, as well as the Executive and the Judiciary, has the duty to guarantee the right to full citizenship, to diversity and to individual freedom. We cannot allow any public organism such as the Legislative Assembly, and its representatives -who are kept in their places by taxes the population pays with the work it does- to hold such backwards positions, that implies to move several steps back in the right of people to live their sexual orientation without prejudice and discrimination. We invite all democratic sectors and those who fight for full social equality in this country to reject the position assumed by LASCS and to discuss ways to stop the Legislative and other public services and bodies to be utilized as sources of discrimination and prejudice.

Respectufully,