It may be Good Friday and the streets of Oaxaca may be blocked while processions marking the Stations of the Cross pass by and Mexico may be overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. BUT, when it comes to politics, the Mexican constitution demands the church must mind its own business.
After Mexico court ruling, gay couple weds in Oaxaca
Two women became the first same-sex couple to marry in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca after the Supreme Court found the state’s definition of marriage unconstitutional, a gay rights group said Thursday.
Mexico City is the only jurisdiction in the deeply Catholic country that has authorized same-sex marriage.
But in December, the top court ruled that Oaxaca’s civil code, which states that marriage is only between a man and a woman for the purpose “to perpetuate the species,” violates the constitution.
The Oaxaca Front for the Respect and Recognition of Sexual Diversity, which had taken part in the legal challenge, announced Thursday that two women got married on March 22 during a private ceremony.
The two women, along with two other gay couples, had appealed to the Supreme Court after Oaxaca state authorities refused to marry them.
Gay rights groups have voiced hope that the court ruling would pave the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage across Mexico.
Argentina is the only Latin American country to authorize such marriages, while Uruguay is considering a similar law.
Mexico giving the USA a lesson in the separation between church and state. U.S. Supreme Court, are you listening?
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