‘It is not for me to impose religious rules’

Father Fábio de Melo defended the civil union between homosexual couples during a live show on Thursday night (29). The statement was made when asked about the position of Pope Francis, who recently also argued that homosexuals should be protected by civil union laws.

“In 2013, I gave an interview and was reproached by the most conservative wing of the Catholic Church. The union between two people of the same sex is not a religious question, it is a civil question. It is a right. I have always considered it an injustice and it is not for me to judge, it is not for me to impose religious rules on others. The question is about the State, ”said Fábio de Mello during the conversation with businessman Marcus Montenegro.

The priest also recalled the friendship he had with the transvestite Luana Muniz, whom he met in the Mangueira court in 2015. Luana was an LGBTQIA + activist. He died at 56, in 2017, from kidney and heart problems.

“Luana was a great friend and I suffered when she died. We have to take in those who need us. We don’t have to ask ourselves this question:” What do you do with life? “. I do not want this religiosity. I broke with that. At one point in my life, I suffer a lot from these ruptures, but I feel more and more comfortable, I want to be in a place where I think is a place of my truth, and I don’t I feel better than anyone, to be a hypocrite and to impose burdens on others that I have not resolved within myself ”.

In the chat, the religious spoke about his first contact with art:

“The first thing that flourished in me, in art, was literature. When I was a child. And I already liked writing very much. I am in a great hurry for authors. I was a very poor child and we did not even have television in Then, the book was my first place of redemption, but parallel to that, my house has always been very musical, I had an influence from my mother who always liked Brazilian popular music and my father with country music. But I never planned an artistic career, but it happened I never knocked on the door of the record company. Someone did it for me. “