Baja's First Same-Sex Wedding Forcibly Cancelled After Complaints of 'Madness' Diane Anderson-Minshall - Advocate.com | |
go to original January 11, 2015 |
Víctor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza and Víctor Fernando Urías Amparo have been fighting to marry legally since 2013. (La Cronica)
What would have been the first legal same-sex wedding in Baja California, a city hall ceremony carried that was mandated by Mexico’s Supreme Court, was thwarted again yesterday, according to Mexican news reports. The couple, Fernando Urias, 37, and Victor Manuel Aguirre, 43, have been trying to get married legally in Mexicaly since 2013, and their Saturday Jan. 10 weddig had been scheduled with the city's civil registry for weeks.
But when the men arrived at Mexicali City Hall, the doors were shut, and wedding was cancelled because, reports Dibble, Angelica Guadalupe Gonzalez Sanchez, president of the Coalition of Baja California Families, complained that the two men “suffer from madness.”
... A social media campaign, with the hashtag #MisDerechosNoSonLocura ("my rights are not insanity") has sprung up, head by Felipe Nájero, a popular actor and director who, with his husband Jaime Morales, become Mexico's first same-sex couple to legally adopting a baby.
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