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The article presents acritical analysis ofthe discourse ofthe transcripts ofthe legislative session and the papers presented about the Concurrent Resolution of the Puerto Rico Senate #99 of 2007, which pretended to raise upto constitutional level the het erosexual marriage and prohibit similar rights to any other kind of family unions. The main purpose of the study was to identify the ideologies that guided the various social actors in this event. The theoretical approach used inthe study was the sexuality from a power perspective (Foucault, 2007). As methodology we utilized the critical analysis of the discourse exposed by Fairclough (2005) and Fairclough and Wodak (1997) cited in Lucca and Berríos (2009). The analysis was conducted on the basis of the following two thematic categories: Relationship between Church-State and Hegemonic Masculinity.