Posted on 11/10/2016 2:41:27 PM PST by Del Rapier
MEXICO CITY -- A committee in Mexico’s lower house of congress has voted down a proposal by President Enrique Pena Nieto to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
The measure seeking to enshrine in the constitution same-sex couples’ right to wed was defeated 19-8 Wednesday in the Commission on Constitutional Matters.
According to a summary published online by the Chamber of Deputies, commission chairman Edgar Castillo Martinez said the vote means the matter is “totally and definitively concluded.”
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar same-sex marriage. But that decision did not have the effect of rewriting any laws on the books, and such marriages remain legal only in some jurisdictions.
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Wow, what a bunch of Homophobes, we should deny them entrance to our country.
What a bunch of racist, bigot, homophobe, xenophobe transphobe savages. Mexico is even so racist they require a voter ID.
This will give the Hollyweirds an excuse to go to Canada rather than Mexico.
So does India, another poor country.
So does India, another poor country.
Amen to the their congressional committee. If you notice, the vote was not even close - 19 to 8.
And all this time I thought Mexicans were by definition diverse. I heard they not only have a border wall with Guatemala, but active military guarding it too.
Now we know why Hollyweird is moving to Canada.
Some moral sanity south of the border.
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