Gay marriage becomes legal in: Mexico City

[Caliga]

  

Mexico City legalizes same-sex marriage, adoptions
December 21, 2009 8:41 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- Mexico City, one of Latin America's largest metropolises, on Monday legalized same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples.

By a vote of 39 to 20, the city's legislative assembly approved revisions to the civil code to permit same-sex marriages. Five legislators abstained.

In a separate motion, the assembly voted 31 to 24 in favor of legalizing adoption by same-sex couples, with nine abstentions.

The revision will change the definition of marriage to a union between two people, instead of the current version, which specifies a union between a man and a woman.

Civil groups in favor and opposed to the vote had gathered since early in the morning outside the legislative building.

In 2007, the legislators approved same-sex civil unions.

Mexico City is the second major Latin American city to legalize same-sex marriage.

In November, a Buenos Aires, Argentina, court legalized same-sex marriages. The first marriage to be held under the new law, however, was delayed over legal wrangling in the courts.

CNN en Español's Rey Rodriguez contributed to this report.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Now Marty and Neil can at last seal the deal on years of internet flirting.

[Jaron]

WTF we talk about mexico city and for some reason MY face comes up?

[Caliga]

The board is racist against Mexicans in that it lacks any emoticon directly referencing them.  Therefore I was forced to use an icon depicting a Mexican-American. 

[Jaron]

:katmai: how about that?

[citizen k]

WTF we talk about mexico city and for some reason MY face comes up?

Tell me of your homeworld, Jaron.

[Eddie Teach]

:katmai: how about that?

Or :timmay:

[Caliga]

Jaron, Jaron, Jaron... this thread isn't about you, hon, it's about Mexican homos. 

[Neil]

Reprehensible.

[Faeelin]

Tell me of your homeworld, Jaron.

Ah, you should have seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south, the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver. When they caught the light every morning, they lit the forest on fire, under a burnt orange sky...

[Neil]

Tell me of your homeworld, Jaron.

Ah, you should have seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south, the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver. When they caught the light every morning, they lit the forest on fire, under a burnt orange sky...

Did the second sun set in the north, or did it just sort of nip over the horizon and then back under?

Also, a silver leaf would be extremely disadvantageous.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Mexican Gay weddings would be El FreakyDeaky!

[katmai]

:katmai: how about that?

Or :timmay:

Motherfucker!

[Caliga]

Or :timmay:

Tim's a Puerto Rican.  Are you trying to say Puerto Ricans are the same as Mexicans?  Raciss.

[Josquius]

So does this mean Mexico is better than the US now?