A Marriage blessed by the People

Ximena Escobar de Nogales
3 min readSep 7, 2021

If it were up to the Swiss parliament or the Swiss government alone, same-sex couples would be allowed to marry in Switzerland. But it is the people who will have the last word. This coming 26th of September, we are called to exercise direct democracy, again. The reason we’re voting on this question is that a referendum against the parliament’s draft bill legalising same-sex marriage was launched. Most laws passed by parliament…

Ximena Escobar de Nogales

I write, to try to understand. I volunteer in prison, advice on impact investments and I run the Casa Taller El Boga, an arts residency in Mompox, Colombia