RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday accused the country’s Supreme Court of “legislating” from the bench after a majority of its justices voted to make homophobia a crime like racism. Bolsonaro, who has in the past acknowledged that he is a homophobe, was speaking at a national convention of the evangelical Assemblies of God Madureira churches. Conservative church groups have been leading resistance to LGBT rights measures and contributed to his victory in the last presidential election. They argued the ruling was to address an omission that had left the LGBT community legally unprotected. In 2018, 420 LGBT people were killed across Brazil, according to the non-profit Grupo Gay da Bahia.

Source: thestar May 31, 2019 21:19 UTC