“…From what can be seen, since the 1990s, there has been an expansion of the political arena with the growing participation of Evangelicals and the emergence of new actors in civil and political societies, especially the identity movements (Machado 2012 ). Disputes have intensified in public arenas in Brazil among groups polarized between those (feminists, homosexuals, intellectuals, journalists, educators, lawyers, artists, state managers, among others) that defend the establishment of public policies regarding health, education, scientific research, and legal order that would guarantee minorities human, sexual, and reproductive rights without religious interference versus conservative religious groups, which, for reasons of creed and morals, would maintain their actions within the legal-political expedients of the republican framework to assert their proposals for dismantling such initiatives from secular forces (Camurça 2017 ).…”