Mídia, religião e política : a questão moral em arranjos disposicionais tentativos acerca do Estatuto da Família

Abstract

Religion participation in politics is not a new phenomenon in Brazil. However, from 2010 on there has been some ressignification in politics by the religious conservative perspective in ways to transform moral questions into the driving force of evangelical congressmen’s actions and speeches, especially concerning LGBTQI+ rights. In Brazil what embodies and voices the complex relation between the evangelical religion and politics is the Congress Evangelical Bench, formally known as the Frente Parlamentar Evangélica. This relation creates a critical picture of conflicts between some sectors of society and the Bench itself. The conflicts’ reasons are of varied kinds but, in general terms, we highlight the use of biblical precepts in attempt to regulate some behaviors from non-christians and the biblical-christian basement of legislative processes. Among the Law Projects (LP) headed by congressmen connected to the evangelical bench, the purpose of the thesis is to analyze dispositional arrangements surrounding the Family’s Statute (LP 6583). The Project issues Family rights and public policy guidelines targeting Family appreciation and support in Brazil. In 2015 the text generated controversy by defining the Family concept as the social nucleus formed from the union between a man and a woman. Our interest is to analyze the proceedings and disputes triggered by the LP at the Congress and Facebook, regarding the Family concept. For that, we use the work of Braga (2018, 2020) and the readings the author made of Michel Foucault (1977). The interactional dispositives behave as a series of arrangements that can be translated as the subject’s attempt to create strategies and move forward some points of view. By referring to interactional dispositives, such as what we intend to analyze, Braga instigates our look to ways in which differences are positioned and treated throughout clashes in which communication is the prime material. That being said, the main analysis is divided in two moments. Willing to understand the dispositional arrangements regarding the relation between Family and religion, we’ll set our look into: (1) six deliberative reunions held by the special temporary commission elected to vote the Family Statute text (April 9th, 16th and 28th, September 2nd and 24th and October 8th); and (2) the comments interactions about the final approval of the LP text on the Facebook page of five communication networks (Época, Exame, Portal R7, UOL Notícias e Yahoo Brasil). We verified that the (always) attemptive operations of building arrangements, made by different groups discussing the meaning to be given to the family concept, give space to intolerance and hate expressions, and also contribute to the strengthening of values and beliefs that prevent dialogue in formal political spheres and digital networks. The way actors build arrangements to maintain a discursive virtue ruled by the fight against evil (the sin), elucidates a moralizing grammar that polarizes opinions and maintains in a distance the conflict between pluralities that makes democracy move forward.