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Gay marriage law takes effect in Mexico

Published: March 12, 2010

Latin America's first gay marriage law has seen the first same-sex couples take make their relations official before the court in Mexico.

Mexico City's left-leaning legislature approved gay marriage and opened the way for adoptions on December 21, provoking a wave of uproar from religious groups in the Catholic nation and conservatives including President Felipe Calderon, said an AFP report on news.com.au.

"We don't have anything ready apart from what we're wearing," said Judith Vazquez, who will wed another woman.

Vazquez and Lol Kin Castaneda were taken by surprise when the region's first gay marriage law came into force last week in the Mexican capital, and shortly after they signed their names in the city's civil register, they learned they would be the first of five couples to pass before a city judge.

The Attorney-General has lodged an appeal against the move at the Supreme Court, and a string of states are seeking to apply measures to specifically prohibit gay marriages.

Two men were recently married in Buenos Aires, the country's second gay marriage, after a judge approved the union ahead of possible legislation in Argentina, the report added.

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Mexico enacts Latin America's first gay marriage law (news.com.au/AFP)

 

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Recent Comments

  1. Poor Mexico! Ever since Our Lady converted its inhabitants to Catholicism in their millions, Satan has been taking his revenge on this country.

  2. Finally, the world is starting to progress from the dark ages

  3. How can anybody think that this is all right. It makes me very sad indeed, and I think that our Lord and our heavenly mother, Mary, will be shedding a tear or two. It is no wonder that we are breeding a generation of very confused people, where pretty much anything goes!! Satan certainly has a lot of people tricked.

  4. It's a start for equality for all. We were all created by the one God and that God of ours bestows the same love on all of us.

  5. Dear John M: What are your thoughts towards a man marrying his daughter? Because if you think it's wrong you will be seen as old fashioned in 25 years time when people are pushing for it to be legal.
    Marriage is between man and woman. That is not my rule, or Cardinal Pell's rule or the Pope's rule, but God's rule.
    Love isn't letting people do whatever they want. Your mentality holds no sway in any other moral norm in society. Governments don't let us do what we want, nor the police nor the owner od a kebab shop. Why is this so difficult to accept? Peace.

  6. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

  7. So the history books got it wrong when they said the Church led us out of the 'dark ages', John M?
    And must have been most remiss in not acknowledging the progress attributable to 'gay marriage'?
    Never mind, I'm sure there's some revisionist out there slaving away a newsworthy doctoral thesis.

  8. Dark Ages is a term used by those whose knowledge of the so-called Middle Ages derives primarily from Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.

  9. Karyn: Jesus welcomed all, even prostitutes. Should people with a medically homosexual orientation be lonely all their lives? Mind you, it should not be a marriage, but simply a union recognised by Law.

  10. Peter M: Yes, he welcomed prostitutes. And then wanted them to stop sinning! Please make sure you tell the whole story if you're going to use it to support an argument.

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