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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
A law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry comes into effect on Thursday in Mexico City. The law, which was passed by the city’s local assembly in December, gives gay people full marital rights, including the right to adopt.
Several gay couples are now expected to register to get married as early as next week. Mexico City is one of the first capitals in Latin America to fully recognise gay marriages.
Judith Vazquez and partner Lol-kin Castaneda hope to become one of the first couples to marry under the new law. “It’s the end of our fight and the beginning of life in freedom in Mexico City,” Ms Vazquez told the BBC. “This is a great, historic moment for the whole of society in Mexico City,” added Ms Castaneda.
Full Story from BBC News
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The same-sex Mexican wedding will be born tomorrow as a new law puts Mexico City on the front lines of the gay marriage battle raging across Latin America.
But even as gay couples line up to tie the knot, the Catholic Church and President Felipe Calderon’s conservative party are gearing up to fight the law, the Washington Post reports.
Same-sex unions are legal in Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, and Ecuador, as well as Argentina, where two gay men wed in December, but Mexico City is the first place south of the border to formally allow gay marriage. A local cardinal blasted the law as “perverse” and Calderon said it violates the Mexican constitution, which “speaks explicitly of marriage between a man and a woman,” but advocates note there has been no popular backlash against gay marriage in the city.
Full Story from Newser
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Various civil and religious associations of Mexico, united under the organization “Man+Woman=Marriage,” are working to collect 50,000 online signatures from Mexican voters in order to stop the recently-approved law allowing gays & lesbians to marry and adopt children. Guillermo de Jesus Torres Quiroz, organizer of the project, said the initiative “aims to protect children, whose rights will be harmed by the adoption of homosexual couples instead of by a family consisting of a father and mother.”
The signatures will be delivered to the Mexico City Legislative Assembly. “We soon hope to present a plan to stop this reform that goes against the institution of the family.” The organizer added that they have had a good response so far.
Torres Quiroz said the petition will be delivered to the Legislative Assembly, where officials will review it to verify that it fulfills the legal requirements for such an initiative. Mexico City law states that a petition can be presented to the Legislative Assembly if it has been signed by 0.5 percent of the electorate.
Full Story from CNA
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected three out of five challenges to Mexico City’s gay marriage law, El Universal reported. The court said the challenges brought by the governors of three states controlled by the conservative PAN Party were “clearly inappropriate.”
The decision, written by Minister Sergio Valls, said the states did not have the legal authority to challenge the laws of another state or the nation’s federal district of Mexico City. The court’s ruling applies to lawsuits submitted by the states of Morelos, Guanajuato and Tlaxcala.
The law – approved in December and expected to take effect on March 4 – is a first for Latin America. It gives gay and lesbian couples all the rights and responsibilities of marriage, including the right to adopt children. Previously, the city government recognized gay couples with civil unions, but gay adoption was banned.
Full Story from On Top Magazine
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
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.
Full Story from The Gazette
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
As Valentine’s Day approaches, stationary stores in the old quarter of this megalopolis are awash with Cupids and hearts and the effusive iconography of romance. Ten-tiered wedding cakes spire to the chandeliers in the windows of the Ideal, the palace of such confectionary extravaganzas. Down the block, beribboned classic cars are lined up outside La Profesa, a colonial church much favored for high society weddings. Marriage is merchandise for the Roman Catholic Church – priests charge sumptuous (30,000 pesos) fees for tying the knots.
Meanwhile, Church and State, ancient rivals for the affections of the Mexican people, are nose-to-nose over who exactly can marry whom.
The Princes of the Catholic Church are aghast at the recent vote of the Mexico City Legislative Assembly to legalize same sex marriage that in their jaundiced vista has transformed this megalopolis into one monstrous Sodom & Gomorrah. This past December 21st, local legislators, led by the left-center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) which holds a lopsided majority in the Assembly voted 39 to 20 to amend the city’s civil code by modifying the definition of marriage, striking down language that restricted such coupling to a man and a woman, and upgrading civil unions (“societies of conviviality”) between lovers of the same sex to matrimony.
Full Story from Counter Punch
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Federal prosecutors in Mexico City announced yesterday they would seek to overturn the city’s new gay marriage law on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. A statement from the federal Attorney General’s Office said the law “violates the principle of legality, because it strays from the constitutional principle of protecting the family”.
The law is due to come into effect in March, after being approved in December. It also includes specific rights for gays to adopt and is the first such law in Latin America. Mexico City previously allowed civil unions but did not allow gay couples to adopt.
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the progressive Democratic Revolution Party refused to veto it, despite calls for him to do so from the Mexican Catholic Church and the conservative National Action Party, which said it would appeal to Mexico’s Supreme Court.
Full Story from Pink News
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Christian groups on Thursday said they had asked Mexico’s attorney general to overturn a newly-voted Mexico City law allowing gay marriage and the possibility of adoption, because it was “unconstitutional.” The capital’s legislature approved gay marriage on December 21, in the first such law passed anywhere in Latin America.
The Contraternice group of Evangelical churches and the College of Catholic Lawyers said they believed the new law that “allows marriage between people of the same sex and the possibility to adopt” was unconstitutional, a statement said.
The complaint was based on “Christian principles,” but also included legal issues on which the Supreme Court should decide, including possible violations of the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it added.
Full Story from the Laredo Sun: http://www.laredosun.us/notas.asp?id=2772
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Mexico City enacted Latin America’s first law recognizing gay marriage Tuesday and said it hopes to attract same-sex couples from around the world to wed. The law, approved by city legislators on Dec. 21, was published in Mexico City’s official register and will take effect in March. It will allow same-sex couples to adopt children and municipal officials say it will make Mexico’s capital a “vanguard city”-and attract extra tourism revenues.
“Mexico City will become a center, where (gay) people from all over the world will be able to come and have their wedding, and then spend their honeymoon here,” said Alejandro Rojas, the city tourism secretary.
The law, approved by city legislators on Dec. 21, was published in Mexico City’s official register Tuesday and will take effect in March. It will allow same-sex couples to adopt children and municipal officials say it will make Mexico’s capital a “vanguard city” – and attract extra tourism revenues.
Full Story from travelvideo.tv: http://www.travelvideo.tv/news/mexico/01-02-2010/mexico-tourism-secretary-invites-gays-from-all-over-the-world-to-get-married
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Inside Mexico City’s spectacular metropolitan cathedral, Cardinal Norberto Rivera conducted his last Sunday Mass of the year to packed benches. But rather than focusing on the goodwill of the holiday season, Rivera’s sermon centered on what he said was a new affront to the nation’s Roman Catholic values: gay marriage.
Calling the unions “perverse” and an “aberration,” the prelate called on his flock to fight against a new law allowing gay marriage in Mexico City — the first of its kind in Latin America.
“This perverse example cannot spread. It is necessary to constitutionally defend the family,” Rivera said in his characteristic deep booming voice. The law “is unjust, inadmissible and condemnable.”
Full Story from the Global Post: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/mexico/091230/gay-marriage-catholic-church
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