Ives Gandra, a candidate for the Supreme Court, defends the submission of women to men.

Do Justifying - The Minister of the Superior Labor Court Ives Gandra Martins FilhoOne of the leading names in the race for the Supreme Federal Court, stated in 2010, when he published an article on Fundamental Rights in the book "Treatise on Constitutional Law, vol. 1," that women should be submissive to their husbands; that marriage should be indissoluble and should only occur between a man and a woman. Furthermore, he compared same-sex unions to bestiality, using as an example a woman married to a horse.

The book features contributions from various authors on Constitutional Law. It was organized by the minister's father, Ives Gandra Martins, Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes, and lawyer Carlos Valder do Nascimento.

In the publication, Ives demonstrates a worrying view on family matters. Regarding marriage, the TST minister stated that its function is to generate children and complementarity between its members. Furthermore, Gandra Filho argues that for this to happen, it is essential that the union be between a man and a woman, and that marriage is indissoluble, that is, impossible to dissolve by law.

“Marriage has a dual purpose: a) the procreation and education of children; b) the complementarity and mutual assistance of its members. It is precisely because of this dual purpose that marriage has two basic characteristics that must be addressed by positive law, under penalty of corruption of the institution: a) unity – one man with one woman; b) indissolubility – a permanent bond,” he stated.

Same-sex unions – recognized in May 2011 by the Supreme Court – were harshly criticized by Gandra Filho, since they go against human nature, just like bestiality, that is, the union between a human and an animal. "Due to a simple natural impossibility, given the absence of sexual bipolarity (female and male), there is no such thing as marriage between two men or two women, just as one cannot speak of marriage between a woman and her dog or a man and his horse (it can be any type of partnership or union, but not marriage)."

Within the family, Gandra Filho believes that children should obey their parents and wives should obey their husbands. "The principle of authority in the family is ordered in such a way that children obey their parents and the wife obeys her husband."

Furthermore, when commenting on the divorce, the minister believes that it goes against "natural law": “Divorce, therefore, goes against natural law, and is not justified as a solution for extreme cases, since the law does not exist to generalize the exception… The admission of divorce into positive law has only resulted in: a greater number of separations (...); a greater number of maladjusted children (...); greater unpreparedness for marriage (...).”

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