Mexico City assembly legalizes same-sex marriage

[Kadie]

Mexico City assembly legalizes same-sex marriage
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press Writer

Monday, December 21, 2009


(12-21) 13:56 PST MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --

Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.

The bill passed the capital's local assembly 39-20 to the cheers of supporters who yelled: "Yes, we could! Yes, we could!"

Leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the Democratic Revolution Party is widely expected to sign the measure into law.

The bill calls for changing the definition of marriage in the city's civil code. Marriage is currently defined as the union of a man and a woman. The new definition will be "the free uniting of two people."

The change would allow same-sex couples to adopt children, apply for bank loans together, inherit wealth and be included in the insurance policies of their spouse, rights they were denied under civil unions allowed in the city.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/21/international/i131903S07.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0aMl89t2x

[t0dd]

1. They just approved gay adoption too!

:woohoo:

[mnhtnbb]

2. Good for Mexico City!

[Gwendolyn]

3. Excellent news!

:applause:

[YOY]

4. I guess in some parts of the world the Catholic Church has better things to do.

n.t.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. You'd be wrong

and it was a tough fight...

By the way they are having their way in other areas of the country.

That said separation of church and state in Mexico is far more real than in the US... it is a long history.

[Maine-ah]

5. KNFNR

:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:

[Toasterlad]

7. Yet Another Third World Locale More Advanced Than the Supposed Human Rights Leader of the World.