MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City approved homosexual civil unions on Thursday, legalizing gay partnerships for the first time in the world's second-largest Roman Catholic nation.
The capital's municipal assembly, controlled by left-wing legislators, voted for the measure 43-17 as hundreds of rival protesters demonstrated noisily outside the building.
The move paves the way for same-sex civil unions in the city of 8.6 million people early next year.
The local congress in the northern state of Coahuila, bordering Texas, began debating a similar plan this week to legalize gay unions.
"These reforms are going to cause a snowball effect that no one will be able to stop," said David Sanchez of the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, one of the few openly gay national congressmen.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Gay Unions Legalized in Mexico
If catholic Mexico has finally given in, what chance does the liberal United States have? A "snowball effect that no one will be able to stop?" He's right. Mark my words that this will eventually lead to the legalization of all sexual relationships - no matter how deviant. From Reuters:
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