Mexican states challenge gay marriage in court

AFP Montreal Gazette ^ | February 18, 2010

[La Lydia]

MEXICO CITY - Five of Mexico's 32 states have announced plans to challenge a measure that legalizes gay marriage in the country's Supreme Court. The action comes after Mexico City's leftist city assembly approved a gay marriage law on December 21, the first such measure passed anywhere in Latin America.

Powerful religious groups and conservatives, including from President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN), have loudly opposed gay marriages.

All five states — Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Sonora and Tlaxcala — have PAN governors.

PAN said in a statement late Tuesday that the states were taking action because the Mexico City law "could oblige the states to recognize and fully acknowledge the validity of marriage between people of the same sex."

Mexico's attorney general on January 28 appealed the gay marriage measure before the country's top court...

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[La Lydia]

Wonder what would happen here if the federal government -- the US Supreme Court -- all of a sudden declared such marriages legal in our country. Would the states resist? Would the Constitution be amended?

[brivette]

this is mighty revolting if you ask me.

[Antoninus]

As I have said numerous times—this debate will only end when we amend the constitution to outlaw fake marriage once and for all.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Five of Mexico’s 32 states have announced plans to challenge a measure that legalizes gay marriage in the country’s Supreme Court. ***

When Coronado made his exploration trip to Cibola in 1540, they reported finding large numbers of towns in northern Mexico filled with “Sodomites.”

[La Lydia]

Chichimecas.

[Neoliberalnot]

The rimmers and felchers may find the Mexican road a bit tougher to travel.

[OldGoatCPO]

Amazing isn’t it. Mexico could lead the way in morality, Africa will preserve Christianity and China will become the largest capitalist nation in the world. And the good ole USofA will be coping Europe while the EU goes down in flames. AMAZING

[Neoliberalnot]

Indeed it is. The perverts have gained the upper hand here thanks to the perverts in hollywood that write the scripts for disgusting promotionals of deviance masquerading as sitcoms. One doesn’t have to be from a rich nation to recognize and follow the Word of God.