Mexico Supreme Court upholds gay marriage law

[depakid]

Source: LA Times

Mexico's Supreme Court has upheld a landmark law permitting same-sex marriages in Mexico City, rejecting the conservative federal government's claim that the law is unconstitutional because it threatens the institution of the family. The justices, in an 8-2 decision, with one jurist absent, cast their opinions on one of two grounds: First, individual states (including the Federal District, as Mexico City is also known) can define or limit marriage through their legislatures; or second, Mexico's constitution is vague on the definition of "family."

Mexico City's law is an anomaly in the heavily Roman Catholic country, where the church hierarchy and the ruling center-right National Action Party (PAN) have vehemently opposed same-sex marriage.

Thursday's ruling was greeted as another victory in the international gay-rights community and came the day after a U.S. federal judge struck down Proposition 8, a ballot initiative in California that banned same-sex marriages there. Argentina last month passed a sweeping same-sex marriage law, making it the first country in Latin America to give gay couples the same rights as heterosexuals.

Mexico City's legislative assembly voted in December to allow same-sex marriages within the Federal District. An estimated 300 gay and lesbian couples have been married since the law took effect in March.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/08/supreme-court-mexico-gay-marriage.html

[Bobbieo]

1. Does anyone look upon same sex marriage as a form of population control?

[Posteritatis]

4. Not really. (nt)

[FLAprogressive]

7. I don't think it's "population control" one way or the other because it's not like equal marriage

creates more gay people.

[xchrom]

8. What a weird thing to say. Nt

[David Zephyr]

11. Indeed.

.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. No. Some percentage of the population is naturally gay, and this doesn't increase or decrease

that percentage one iota.

[izquierdista]

2. They were right back in the '60s!

There is a Domino Effect!

[EFerrari]

3. 1968 didn't only happen here. It was global.

That's why blaming "hippies" is silly. There were political insurgencies all around the world.

[Wilms]

5. I never blamed hippies.

The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=285487&mesg_id=285487

[EFerrari]

9. You know, I have to do that to my truck.

:rofl:

[xchrom]

6. Delete

[aquart]

12. What a nice Supreme Court.

I hope our Supreme Court is as nice as theirs.

[Vidar]

13. Even Catholic Mexico is "progressing" faster than Puritan America. "Forward into the Past!"