It's Tuesday, September 27, 2022.

I'm Albert Moler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

Well, we're going to begin today in Cuba, and the two words, Cuban elections often do not rightly go together.

As you recall, in 1959, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, communists took control

of the island of Cuba and established a communist form of government driven by a certain form of ideological Marxism.

They conformed communism to their own political whims as a matter of fact, but nonetheless

the Castro regime was both a cult of personality and a Marxist regime, and like so many Marxist or communist governments,

the government repeatedly held elections, which, no surprise, the government won overwhelmingly every single time.

As a matter of fact there was often not a competing candidate to the Communist Party candidate

but nonetheless they said it is an election.

So there was a lot of quite automatic skepticism as the Cuban government put before Cuban

voters the question as to whether or not the country should adopt a new family law that would include a new marriage law

that would for the first time legalize same-sex marriage in the island nation of Cuba.

The results came in just over the course of the last several hours and we are

told that by a 60 plus percent margin the measure was adopted. Now do we have confidence in the

electoral integrity of Cuba under a communist regime? No emphatically, no. But nonetheless, this is not exactly unexpected and this leads to some very deep worldview considerations.

First of all, as we are looking at the actual headline news coming in from Cuba, we are

told that the measure that was adopted includes more than 400 articles, so we're talking

about a rather comprehensive revision of family and marriage and sexuality laws there

within the island of Cuba.

And we're also told that this family law was approved.

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