Lawmakers in Mexico City have passed legislation paving the way for the Mexican capital to become the first city in Latin America to legalise gay marriage.In a vote on Monday the city's government passed a bill changing the definition of marriage from a union of a man and a woman to a union of two people.
The changes will give gay couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.
Source: The Agencies
The changes will give gay couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.
- The city's leftist mayor, Marcelo Ebrard of the Democratic Revolution Party, was widely expected to sign the measure into law.
- However, the conservative Nation Action Party of Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, has vowed to challenge the gay marriage law in the courts.
- Many people in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America remain opposed to gay
- marriage, and the dominant Roman Catholic Church has announced its opposition.
- "They have given Mexicans the most bitter Christmas," said Armando Martinez, the president of the College of Catholic Attorneys.
- "They are permitting adoption [by gay couples] and in one stroke of the pen have erased the term 'mother' and 'father.'"
- But Victor Romo, a city lawmaker and a member of the mayor's party, called the vote an historic day.
- "For centuries unjust laws banned marriage between blacks and whites or Indians and Europeans," he said.
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