Not sure how I missed this but Mexico City Approved Same-Sex Marriage Quote:Mexico City approves gay marriageBy Jennifer Gonzalez (AFP) – 1 day agoMEXICO CITY — Mexico City's legislature has approved gay marriage, an aide to a city lawmaker told AFP, in the first such law passed anywhere in Latin America."It was approved overall by 39 votes in favor and 20 against, with five abstentions," said a spokesman for the bill's chief sponsor, assemblyman Davi Razu, on Monday.Spokesman Oscar Oliver said the city's majority leftist legislators also defeated an opposition amendment to the gay marriage bill that would have prevented same-sex couples from adopting children."For centuries, unjust laws prohibited marriage between whites and blacks or Europeans and (indigenous) Indians," Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) lawmaker Victor Romo said."Today all those barriers have come down."The new measure modified a civil union law already on the books in Mexico City, as in other Latin American nations including Uruguay and Colombia.In Argentina the Supreme Court is to rule on a court-approved gay marriage that was challenged earlier this month.The Mexico City law changes the meaning of marriage from "a free union between a man and a woman" to "a free union between two people."Mexico City's gay marriage bill was fully backed by lawmakers from the PRD, which has ruled Mexico's sprawling capital since 1997. It was opposed by the country's ruling National Action Party (PAN).The vote was preceded by a lively, three-hour debate during which President Felipe Calderon's conservative PAN issued a statement calling the gay marriage bill "an electoral ploy by the PRD that mocks and abuses the gay community."Outside the city's assembly building, about 100 gay rights activists demonstrated in favor of the marriage bill, some holding up signs saying: "Be Happy, Be Gay.""We've got to celebrate. It's a social and cultural breakthrough that acknowledges a historic debt owed the gay community," said Antonio Medina, an activist and editor for the gay-news agency Notiese."Let's hope the conservatives won't manage to reverse it by taking it before the Supreme Court of Justice," he told AFP, as some homosexual couples celebrated the law by hugging and kissing.Under the new law, same-sex marriages can be officiated 45 days after the approval of the measure, beginning in February, gay rights activists said.Before Monday's vote, Mexico City was among a handful of Latin American cities that allowed gay unions.An opinion poll in September showed the city population divided on the issue of gay marriage, with 48 percent in favor and 46 percent opposed.The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico has strongly opposed the gay marriage bill since it was taken up by the city legislative assembly in September.Vatican former health minister Javier Lozano Barragan, a Mexican cardinal, earlier this month said that homosexuals and transsexuals "will never make it to the kingdom of heaven."Buenos Aires, known for its active if low-key gay movement, became the region's first city to approve civil unions for gay couples in 2002, granting them some but not all the rights enjoyed by heterosexual married couples.Elsewhere in Latin America, the Mexican state of Coahuila and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul also allow civil unions for same-sex couples.In late 2007, Uruguay became the first country in the region to legalize civil unions for gays. In January 2009, the Colombian Constitutional Court recognized a series of civil union rights for homosexual couples, including social welfare rights.But no Latin American country authorizes marriage between gays.
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Mexico City Approves Gay Marriage
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Quote:Mexico City approves gay marriage yay!!!
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I think this is really sad. Kinda scary too 'cuz God just don't mess around with stuff like this. Think Sodom and Gomorrah and if you're not religiously savvy, look it up. It wasn't pretty.
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Originally Posted By: bionicweenieI think this is really sad. Kinda scary too 'cuz God just don't mess around with stuff like this. Think Sodom and Gomorrah and if you're not religiously savvy, look it up. It wasn't pretty. Sodom and Gomorrah? Who are they?
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Originally Posted By: bionicweenieI think this is really sad. Kinda scary too 'cuz God just don't mess around with stuff like this. Think Sodom and Gomorrah and if you're not religiously savvy, look it up. It wasn't pretty. lol, here we go again again, maybe you should look it up and read it instead of regurgitating other, common interpretations of the story.meh, nuff said :pWhat's interesting here is that it's a city that passed the law. It's usually a state, Provence or country. I wonder if this is a first.OH NO, it is the new Soddom and/or Gomorrah! Shit, and I thought it would actually be Tijuana... the most fabulous place on earth!
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Good for Mexico City; maybe they should also approve Gay Marriage in China..... after all there are more men then women!
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LOL! the same China that'll lock you up for saying anything that goes against the government? the same China that eats fetuses and leaves dying children on their streets? neva in life...
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Where did you hear such a thing? I travel to China all the time, and in some respects China is more modern then the US, and in other regards - the US is ahead of China. They are getting better in there human rights. As far as the dead babies in the street.... I have never seen any! They collect their garbage every day... where in the US - we are lucky if our "City Workers" even get too it - once a week! Oh! As far as speaking out against the government... they speak out, but in a different way. When they had the earthquake in China; the government gave assistance in less then 1 day; after Katrina in New Orleans, it took the US Government 5 days to figure out what to do!! Let's not get into politics's!
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LOL sorry I'm biased against China for many personal reasons. I have several friends who live there and many of them who are Christians attend underground churches because they can't risk being seen in public. Many of my Chinese and Taiwanese friends sent back some devastating pictures from within their own neighborhoods. China has there dark secrets. Their own natives will tell ya.
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I know that China does have some dark secrets! But, the new government policy is that the government does not condemn Religion nor do they condone! Buddhist and Christians are free to practice there religion in private so long as they do not openly preach (unlike in the US - where we have openly free Religion) There are several historical Christian Churches and Buddhist Temples open to the public. In Beijing there is a Cathedral and a Catholic Cardinal that has services once or twice a week. There are Bibles in every Holiday Inn. You gave me your opinion and I respect that, but these are my observations from my many travels within China over the past 10 years.
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America vs China
two countries with both fantastic wonders and great evils.
