Court Rules Article of Jalisco Civil Code Preventing Gay Marriage Unconstitutional Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original November 29, 2015

Fifty-one same sex-couples were married in a group ceremony in Mexico City last weekend. This was part of an event to declare the capital a 'gay-friendly' city. (Ukraine Today)

The First Chamber of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice ruled in favor of two gay couples Wednesday as it declared an article of Jalisco Civil Code, which prevented gay marriage, as unconstitutional.

The gay couples - two men and two women - approached the court after they were prevented from getting married in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

The First Chamber found Article 258 of the Jalisco Civil Code to be discriminatory as it restricted matrimony to union between a man and a woman. It ruled that Jalisco state authorities could not deny conjugal rights and benefits to gay couples seeking to marry.

In June, the Supreme Court had upheld the validity of gay marriage and declared laws prohibiting homosexual unions as discriminatory and unconstitutional.

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