FieryIce
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Well, looks like someone's gotten ahead of us
Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that a law in southern Oaxaca state that bans same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, paving the way for same-sex couples to marry in that state and possibly in the rest of Mexico.
In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the tribunal struck down a Oaxaca state law that declares that "one of the purposes of marriage is the perpetuation of the species."
The court said in its ruling that to condition marriages to the union of one man and one woman "violates the principle of equality."
Currently, same-sex marriage is only legally allowed in Mexico City, where a same-sex marriage law was enacted in 2010.
The court's ruling comes from a lawsuit filed by three gay couples against the state of Oaxaca.
Apparently, the Mexican supreme court does not have the power to invalidate state laws en masse over one case in one state like SCOTUS does, but this will almost certainly guarantee that couples will sue in most other states to get it legalized there.  |
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | Now to just hope something like this happens in the US... these sort of bans just need to end, they're dumb.
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