Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Panama, asking the Supreme Court of Justice to rule in favour of the traditional family in the face of some lawsuits filed by homosexual couples seeking ‘recognition of their union’.
The demonstration was called and organised by pro-family entities, led by the Panamanian Alliance for Life and the Family. Evangelical leaders supported the march and encouraged the participation of fellow believers. Some of them spoke during the event.
‘Panamanians do not believe in another marriage formula that is not a man and a woman’, said José Luis Delgado, President of the National Committee for the Family of Panama.
With Panamanian flags and wearing masks, thousands of protesters defending the family ‘sent the judges a loud, clear and strong message’, Delgado said. ‘We are here so that the magistrates, once and for all, after almost four years, rule in favour of the constitutionality of Article 26 of the Family Code, which says that marriage is between men and women’, he stressed.
Delgado recalled that Panama ‘guarantees and gives protection to marriage between a man and a woman, because it is the only way to guarantee that there will be new citizens’.
Three cases of same-sex marriages celebrated abroad in 2016 are still pending a ruling in the Supreme Court of Justice and in the Electoral Court of Panama. Two of them seek to invalidate the Family Code and legalise homosexual marriages.
