translated from Spanish: “I am trying to be sick”: Ossandón defends himself from criticism and advances that will reject LGBT adoption in the Senate

This week the House of Deputies rejected the indication of the Executive-who sought to prioritize the “role of Father and mother”-and gave the green light to the adoption LGBT and homomaternal in Chile.
Now, reform of the adoption system will have an agitated debate in the Senate, and voices already resonate in what could be a historic change in the country. One of those voices is that of Senator RN Manuel José Ossandón, who forwarded in an interview with the third, who will reject the initiative and defend the “role of father and mother.” The parliamentarian and former presidential candidate said that for him this is not the defense of the right or the left, are issues that have no political color or religious creed. “I hope the values defense is not a fight between good and bad. That does not mean that we have a duty to defend what we believe, and I believe that the Government must insist on defending the option of father and mother as the first order in the adoption, “he said.
In that same line, Ossandón was emphatic in pointing out that the currency “must be clear in insisting on its position of the role of father and mother, those roles are key”.
Ossandón insists and believes that “the role of father is masculine and that of mother is feminine, so I think that for a lesbian couple it is much easier to raise a child than for two men. Men are different, even if they try to say that we are equal or that they are cultural things, it is not so. We do not give birth, we do not breastfeed, we do not have a lot of virtues and instincts that women have with children. ”
It should be mentioned that this last point had already been pointed out by Ossandón. After the vote in the house, the senator showed his qualms and said that “nobody here talks about the rights of children (…) To psychosexual development, attachment capacity and parental skills. ”
“They’re trying to get Me sick”
The statements of Manuel José Ossandón have earned him a myriad of criticisms, including the qualifier of homophobe against him.
In the face of this, the senator of National Renewal believes that “to tell me homophobic because I think differently is a disqualification; Homophobia is a disease, they’re trying to get me sick. I have not said that they are “heterofóbicos”, I have not said that they are sick, have every right to think differently. ”
Finally, on the support that the project of adoption LGBT and Homomaternal has had in sectors of right, like Evópoli, Ossandón ensures that it “respects”, adding that although it does not rule out that a woman can fulfill the role of dad, “we are making a law that You have to look for the ideal, not the exceptions. ”

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