Rejection of Same-Sex Marriage Proves Mexico Still Has Much to be Learned Janila Castaneda - Konbini
go to original November 15, 2016

Mexicans march against gay marriage law (Al Jazeera English)

Donald Trump’s election and the possibility of a wall (physical and metaphorical) at the border between Mexico and the US was not the only shameful piece of news Mexicans received last week.

After years of struggle and movements that promoted integration and tolerance, the Mexican Congress declared itself against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposal to consolidate in the Mexican Constitution same-sex marriage.

According to comments by deputy Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo to AFP, the initiative proposed the following:

“Marriage is in between people, and not only in between men and woman as the old mind set dictates.”

After a series of riots supposedly held to support pro-family values that basically just defended conservative catholic biases, deputies from three political parties (PAN, PV and Encuentro Social) voted against this “extension of the 4th article of the Mexican Constitution.”

Despite the fact that same-sex marriage was legalized in Mexico City in 2009 – the first city in Latin America to do so – this rejection presents a step backward in our fight for tolerance.

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