Mexico state lawmaker wants ban on public gay nuptials
Mexican Democratic Revolution Party lawmaker Rafael
Mendoza has called for public gay nuptials to be banned, saying they
will confuse children, but his own party has rebuked him
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A state legislator has been rebuked by his own party after he called
for a ban on same-sex couples holding public nuptials to formalize their
relationships.
Rafael Mendoza has been called to retract his comments by his own Democratic Revolution Party after he said society was not ready for same-sex weddings to be held in public.
‘Parents are coming to me, to my house, to tell me they are against the city carrying out these weddings in public,’ Mendoza said according to the Associated Press.
‘I am not against these civil unions; the only thing is I don't want them in public.’
Mendoza was his party’s leader in the Colima state congress but has said he will step down – buthe still maintains he has not done anything wrong in making the comments.
Colima voted in May to allow same-sex couples to formalize their relationships via civil unions.
Mendoza has been called out by Democratic Revolution Party colleague and mayor of Cuauhtemoc Indira Vizcaino over his comments.
‘He is discriminating,’ Vizcaino said.
‘He is claiming that it creates a bad image for children and young people to have these gay weddings in public.’
Vizcaino has been pushing to make same-sex marriage legal in Colima and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party has been at the lead of efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Mexico.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Mexico City and the state of Oaxaca, while civil unions are available to same-sex couples in Coahuila and Colima.
Rafael Mendoza has been called to retract his comments by his own Democratic Revolution Party after he said society was not ready for same-sex weddings to be held in public.
‘Parents are coming to me, to my house, to tell me they are against the city carrying out these weddings in public,’ Mendoza said according to the Associated Press.
‘I am not against these civil unions; the only thing is I don't want them in public.’
Mendoza was his party’s leader in the Colima state congress but has said he will step down – buthe still maintains he has not done anything wrong in making the comments.
Colima voted in May to allow same-sex couples to formalize their relationships via civil unions.
Mendoza has been called out by Democratic Revolution Party colleague and mayor of Cuauhtemoc Indira Vizcaino over his comments.
‘He is discriminating,’ Vizcaino said.
‘He is claiming that it creates a bad image for children and young people to have these gay weddings in public.’
Vizcaino has been pushing to make same-sex marriage legal in Colima and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party has been at the lead of efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Mexico.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Mexico City and the state of Oaxaca, while civil unions are available to same-sex couples in Coahuila and Colima.
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