One Step Closer to Marriage in Mexico

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Gay people in Mexico City are one step closer to marriage equality now that the city put the law passed earlier this month formally on the books, the Los Angeles Times reports. The law, which also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children, was published in the official government newspaper Tuesday and will go into effect in 45 days.

The National Action Party, which controls the federal government, has joined the Catholic Church in condemning the Mexico City law. We have seen with impotence, pain, and consternation ... [this] blow to the most intimate structure of Mexican families, the institution over which our nation has built its rich history, values, and spirituality,” Cardinal Norbeto Rivera said.

On Monday two Argentine men, Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre, were wed in what was being billed as the first same-sex marriage in Latin America.

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Name: Raul
Date posted: 1/1/2010 7:55:14 PM
Hometown: El Paso

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Oh shut up, Hector. No seas mamon!
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Name: Hector Rodriguez
Date posted: 1/1/2010 7:09:39 PM
Hometown: Tijuana

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Donde esta los minutemen? No permitir los putos americanos en Mexico. Los putos molesta sexualmente los muchachos.
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Name: Bruce
Date posted: 1/1/2010 2:33:45 PM
Hometown: NY

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Why the anger Eurorant? It is because the church is still interfering with the lives of others who do not accept its teachings. The church can teach anything it wants to its own members, but trying to force its beliefs on everyone else, does bring about an angry reaction, which they did in Maine, California, etc., by giving money to and otherwise supporting legislative efforts to ban same-sex marriage. Still, I agree with your reasoned approach to equality. While we must do those things to succeed, it is also important to point out that the rigid church thinking that caused the horrific crimes of the past is with us even today. While the religious fanatics no longer have the power to burn heretics at the stake in civilized nations, the recent events in Uganda prove that that kind of horror is not unthinkable, not impossible, even today, given the right conditions.
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Name: EuroRant
Date posted: 1/1/2010 6:31:12 AM
Hometown: Brussels, Belgium

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Why all the anger? Yes, everyone is aware of the church’s past and brutal history and it is beyond reproach. Trying to work out tomorrow’s problems by blame and looking at the past is no way to move forward. They are learned guidelines not the path to advance to full liberation. Win their hearts and minds by proving yourselves able. Running up boulevards dressed as an ostrich-feathered glitter queens waving a rainbow flag in their faces and screaming "gay liberation" does little but arm the opposition and will win you nothing except that the present suppression is perhaps well deserving. In Belgium we approached the government and asked for full equal homo-rights by proving that we are sane, rational and responsible citizens not by screaming about the “church’s present/past sins and that it is shite". Please, everyone calm down, take a deep breath and go win their hearts first. "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." -- Martin Luther King Jr
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Name: Katie Murphy
Date posted: 1/1/2010 2:17:45 AM
Hometown: Chicago

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The stranglehold of the catholic church. it combined with Constantine in 400 AD. giving the world a 1000 yr dark age. the church consorted with corrupt kingss and emperors, there was zero social progress, and europe had only serfdom and Lords. And it created the Crusades against the Muslims people. 50 million died over 600 years. No wonder they still hate us. And the inquisition. - upwards of 90000 were tortured and murdered for daring to say the church was wrong - eg that the earth was not flat. And also unknown numbers - probably a million were tortured and burned at the stake for being witches. (a competing religion in the mind of the church). Allmost all women. Horribly murdered to support the machoism of the church hierarchy. And the Catholic church also gave the world the hatred of the Jews. Who knows how many million were murdered in the Pogroms . And a Catholic named Hitler murdered 50 million more, elected on a platform of hating Jews. The church of life, huh?
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Name: Roger
Date posted: 12/30/2009 11:54:28 AM
Hometown: Merida, Mexico

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Rich History... hmm I would label it destruction of culture and rich history by the Catholic Church. I mean, just travel to the beatiful city of Merida. The catholic cathedral was built using a mayan pyramid. The Catholic Church in DF was built ON TOP OF an aztec city. The catholic church destroyed the culture in mexico, and continues to cause pain and destruction wherever poor uneducated people will allow it to. I just hope getting married in DF is recognized in all the Mexican states.
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Name: St Luke
Date posted: 12/30/2009 9:05:40 AM
Hometown: Curitiba

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Fuck the Catholic church and their politicians!! The important is to keep the right that was obtained!! The americans must be pissed off cause they can't even have civil unions! Next year will be Brazil's time to have gay marriage... while in US... not even in the next decade!! On next US presidential elections, neither Palin nor Clinton will do anything about it...not even campaign promises!
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Name: Raul
Date posted: 12/30/2009 12:10:37 AM
Hometown: El Paso

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I'm not saying PRI wasn't bad, but PAN is definately worse! At least PRI tried to have some sort of seperation of church and state.
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Name: Expatriado
Date posted: 12/29/2009 11:31:16 PM
Hometown: Guadalajara

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Mmm. Because there was no corruption or abuse of power with the PRI. Tlatelolco, anyone? While I disagree with the PAN on this one, nothing is that simple.
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Name: Raul
Date posted: 12/29/2009 9:46:35 PM
Hometown: El Paso

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It's sad but true, mike. Mexico has had to fight numerous wars in order to rid the stranglehold the Catholic Church has put us in. Mexico indeed does have a rich history, but one that at times was tainted by evil, greed and fanaticism..

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