{"id":27506,"date":"2012-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/in-the-closet-santos-and-gay-couples\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:47:57","slug":"in-the-closet-santos-and-gay-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/in-the-closet-santos-and-gay-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"In the closet: Santos and gay couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al revisar la trayectoria de Santos y lo que ha hecho (y dejado de hacer) su gobierno, la conclusi\u00f3n es que en este tema le ha faltado el talante liberal que ha tenido en otros. En la campa\u00f1a presidencial, se opuso al matrimonio de personas del mismo sexo. Ya en el poder, le ha hecho el quite a cualquier discusi\u00f3n sobre los derechos de gays y lesbianas. Adem\u00e1s, ha guardado prudente silencio frente a los cuatro proyectos de ley que circulan en el Congreso sobre las uniones homosexuales, incluyendo el del Partido de la U, que niega la posibilidad del matrimonio.<\/p>\n<p>Me dir\u00e1n que Santos es liberal de coraz\u00f3n, pero que ante todo es un pol\u00edtico; que en un pa\u00eds con tanta homofobia, hablar sinceramente del tema ser\u00eda un suicidio electoral, como Obama pensaba que lo era en EE.UU. hasta la semana pasada.<\/p>\n<p>Puede ser. El problema es que el silencio del presidente ha ido m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la cautela electoral, hasta rayar en el endoso impl\u00edcito de la discriminaci\u00f3n. Por ejemplo, ni el mandatario ni su ministro de Defensa tomaron medidas contra el comandante de la Armada Nacional cuando \u00e9ste dijo que, aunque las leyes y los fallos protejan el derecho a la igualdad, sacar\u00eda de la Armada a los homosexuales porque \u201cel honor proh\u00edbe lo que la ley permite\u201d. Con el mutismo de sus superiores, el comandante de la Armada y las dem\u00e1s cabezas de las Fuerzas Armadas tienen carta blanca para discriminar ilegalmente. La misma que ten\u00edan las fuerzas armadas estadounidenses hasta que Obama acab\u00f3 con la pol\u00edtica del silencio (\u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d), al comienzo de su gobierno.<\/p>\n<p>El sigilo gubernamental se extiende a los dem\u00e1s debates sobre los derechos de la poblaci\u00f3n LGBT, en los que la Corte Constitucional se ha quedado sola. Ni a Santos ni a sus ministros, tan elocuentes sobre otros asuntos complejos, se les conoce una opini\u00f3n sobre las adopciones por parejas del mismo sexo, ni sobre el incumplimiento de las sentencias de la Corte por parte de notarios y empresas de seguridad social que se niegan a reconocer las uniones y las pensiones de esas parejas.<\/p>\n<p>Pero Santos, como Obama, entiende la l\u00f3gica pol\u00edtica. As\u00ed como en EE.UU. la salida del cl\u00f3set del presidente fue el resultado de a\u00f1os de movilizaci\u00f3n de la poblaci\u00f3n LGBT (que hizo sentir su influencia en las elecciones y cambi\u00f3 la opini\u00f3n de la mayor\u00eda sobre el matrimonio gay), aqu\u00ed el movimiento y sus aliados tienen que fortalecer su voz pol\u00edtica. De la misma forma como las iglesias se organizan cada domingo para lanzar un mensaje contra los derechos homosexuales, los sectores igualitarios (los j\u00f3venes, las personas LGBT, los liberales de pensamiento) tienen que organizarse en redes sociales y campa\u00f1as que les recuerden a los pol\u00edticos que ellos y ellas son votantes organizados e influyentes. Las cortes no reemplazan la movilizaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, como lo ha entendido bien el Gobierno en su c\u00e1lculo electoral.<\/p>\n<p>Pero tambi\u00e9n se deber\u00eda esperar m\u00e1s de un gobierno que ha tomado riesgos en otros temas pol\u00e9micos, como la penalizaci\u00f3n del consumo y tr\u00e1fico de drogas. Como m\u00ednimo, cabr\u00eda esperar que el presidente, aunque no salga a defender los derechos de las personas LGBT, tampoco promueva su discriminaci\u00f3n. En el corto plazo, la prueba ser\u00e1 la escogencia de su candidato a la terna para la Procuradur\u00eda. Si no postula al procurador Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, el Gobierno habr\u00e1 ayudado a remover el principal obst\u00e1culo para la igualdad de derechos. Y habr\u00e1 abierto el camino para que, alguna vez, un presidente de Colombia diga frente a una c\u00e1mara que las parejas del mismo sexo tienen los mismos derechos que tenemos los dem\u00e1s ciudadanos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewing Obama&#8217;s statements in favor of gay marriage, I wondered: what does President Santos think about it? What has he said about the rights of LGBT people? 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