Mexico City Gives Gay Couples More Rights; Legalizes Marriage

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Gay, matrimony-dom, News

Mexico City is now among the few places to officially legalize same-sex marriage:

Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. The bill passed the capital’s local assembly 39-20 to the cheers of supporters who yelled: “Yes, we could! Yes, we could!”

Leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the Democratic Revolution Party is widely expected to sign the measure into law. The bill calls for changing the definition of marriage in the city’s civil code. Marriage is currently defined as the union of a man and a woman. The new definition will be “the free uniting of two people.” The change would allow same-sex couples to adopt children, apply for bank loans together, inherit wealth and be included in the insurance policies of their spouse, rights they were denied under civil unions allowed in the city.

“We are so happy,” said Temistocles Villanueva, a 23-year-old film student who celebrated by passionately kissing his boyfriend outside the city’s assembly. Only seven countries allow gay marriages: Canada, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium. U.S. states that permit same-sex marriage are Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and New Hampshire.

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  • Nique

    ummm…ok

  • Nique

    Doesnt this country have bigger problems?? War on drugs??

  • DMO

    Ridiculous. These flamers are more concerned with gainiing marriage rights than getting a job. Disgusting…….

  • Trixxie

    1st and no comment

  • Toni

    Dude for real…people need to read the bible, The Book of Enoch, and all the other Apocraphyl books. Gay is not of God. Gay is not like being black does not and should not get the same value as a race. I’m not a hater of gay people, but I do not and will not support the life style. But no one’s life is more valuable than another…

  • drenk

    congrats, just wrap it up boys

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  • drenk

    @ Toni

    why read the white mans book and believe it?

  • KeepNit2Real

    “Ello. My name eez Pedro an’ I love Joseeeee. I deenk you should ley us geh married cuz nobody give us benefeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeets…”

  • Lioness

    Why is this site so homophobic? The sad thing Im sure all of you have someone within your family who is gay and has been terrorized by someone else because of it. This is a step in the right direction for the whole and if Mexico can see it then so can the U.S. Its funny how black people bash gays for wanting rights but not too many years ago they were on the streets marching for the same reason. “Equal Rights”

    As far as the war on drugs comment. The U.S. has been fighting that same war since before I was born. And all that did was put a whole bunch of black males in Jails. So get over it.

  • Mock Rock Star

    Hey good for Mexico City!!!

  • Doc

    i like your Christ I dont like you christians!

  • WTF

    God if ur reading this…Please come n kill us all…y are we embracing their actions? Pure Nonsense!

  • Sage

    Good for the gays, it is about time they get the same marriage rights as everyone else.

    All you brainwashed bible thumpers need to burn that book of fairy tales and come back to reality.

  • LaDiva

    @ Sage

    U might feel it’s a book of fairy tales but one of us is going to be wrong when we breathe our last breath. And I’d sorely hate to be wrong…

  • blacktreasure

    Why do people love getting worked up about gay marriage? There are other issues in society that are way more important than two loving individuals getting married. The world would be a much better place if people would just mind their own damn business.

  • Sage

    @ LaDiva

    You do not believe in god, you are just playing to game to be a part of the multitude.
    It is always easier being part of the herd than being an individual.

    If you were born in a place void of religion would you be religious?

    I guess the answer would be NO.

    Religion is a learned behavior not an innate one.

    Stop being a sheep…

  • Inteligencia

    well good for anyone seeking happiness and for all you who wanna talk about god jesus and the baby jesus

    JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED

  • GotYou

    I’m just wondering those that are using the Bible to defile homosexuals doesn’t it say anything in the Bible about hate and not accepting others? Doesn’t it say in the Bible also that one sin isn’t greater than any other? Seems that many of you pick and choose what’s important to follow in the Bible. Whether you like it or not none of you have the power to judge. I believe everyone needs to be treated fairly and equally. Especially as minorities who have been oppressed why would we want to oppress others? Interesting.

  • drenk

    @ KeepNit2Real
    how do you know what the bible says is what god thinks? because people bothered to write it down and force it on others? it seems so arrogant and self centered for humans to think we can comprehend gods’ thoughts and feelings.

    if someone today says they hear the voice of god, theyre locked up wearing a straight jacket, how do you know theyre not really hearing god also?

  • drenk

    @ GotYou

    there are too many weekend christians trolling this website its not even fun to debate when they start quoting their mighty book, they might as well keep repeating “I’m rubber you’re glue…”

  • BapBarbie

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  • LaDiva

    @ Sage
    Sorry darling but I love me some God…
    And I believe in the Father, the Son and the HOly Spirit…
    Everyone, regardless of what corner of the earth u are in will know Jesus…So as to your question the answer is yes..
    Homosexuality is a learned behavior not an innate one…That is a fact.

  • LaDiva

    @ Sage,

    I will not cast any stones as I know my glasshouse is fragile..
    So like I said we will know the truth once our last breath expires.
    Peace.

  • drenk

    @ LaDiva
    Homosexuality is a learned behavior not an innate one…That is a fact.
    —————————

    thats funny scientists and doctors are still debating that and trying to figure out where it comes from, when did they announce it? I must have missed it

  • KeepNit2Real

    drenk

    12/22/09, 10:34:am

    @ KeepNit2Real
    how do you know what the bible says is what god thinks? because people bothered to write it down and force it on others? it seems so arrogant and self centered for humans to think we can comprehend gods’ thoughts and feelings.

    if someone today says they hear the voice of god, theyre locked up wearing a straight jacket, how do you know theyre not really hearing god also?
    _______________

    How is it arrogant when Jesus quoted from the Bible himself? Didn’t the Pharisees and Sadducees call him arrogant too?

    Jesus said the knowledge God holds out is for anyone to get a hold of. So if that’s being arrogant, take that up with God himself.

    He extended that invitation to all men. It’s up to you to decide if you really want to understand it as His Word to you personally.

  • LaDiva

    @ Sage
    I always noticed that the ones quick to offend someone are the ones who are the perpetrators of the word fool..
    u can paint homosexuality anyway u want and the truth is that it is a sin.
    Just as there are a million other sins but it is a sin no less..
    we can argue until u turn green and guess what it will still be a sin…
    Don’t chastize me about the middle east…
    Take China for instance, did u know that there is an underground church full of christians worshipping God. U can only imagine why they are in hiding..Therefore what u just spoke about is without merit.

  • LaDiva

    @ drenk
    that’s funny considering scientists are still trying to convince mankind that we evolved from monkeys…hmmm i’m still waiting for that monkey to turn into a human…guess i’ll be waiting a lifetime as that will never happen…

  • LaDiva

    @ Sage

    Had u had been paying attention I did say there are a million other sins and also that i would not cast stones as my glass house is fragile…
    Clearly you are not coherent to what has been said.
    And yes religion is nonsense..I do not have a religion.
    I have a belief in Christ and that makes me a Christian.
    There is a big difference btwn religion and a belief..
    Perhaps u should establish the difference on your own time.

  • drenk

    @ LaDiva

    monkeys wont turn into a human, scientist THINK that humans and apes share a common ancestor. they get this idea from fossil EVIDENCE dating back thousands of thousands of years

  • LaDiva

    @ drenk
    perhaps u need to listen to them more often as they are real quick to say that they are our ancestors… I know I didn’t evolve from no ape or monkey…lol

  • lisa

    @toni sounds like the only thing u know from the bible eh…u sound lost… misinformed

  • ddmlibra

    @ Sage

    Reading the bible has nothing to do with it. I can read anything and see no proof of it, but when I have manifestations of words I shared privately with God, I can’t deny that. If you can believe in the nightly news without being part of the actual story, why not believe, no excuse me, how come you don’t KNOW that God is real, and that Jesus is real.

    Also you sound embittered against people that believe in God. Strange, but not really because the devil also was embittered. His job as God’s personal ‘weedwacker’ is to turn people away from God, one of the devices he uses is to try and make them think that the bible is a book written by ‘madmen’.

    I see buddhists, muslims, mormons, etc. even devil worshippers and I see no reason to attack and denigrate their beliefs, I KNOW what’s up, I don’t need to fight them, Jesus wins…but it makes me wonder when people who claim that the bible and God are fake need to attack people who know about God, what or WHO is compelling you to fight against someone who’s not there. You better ask somebody.

    Oh, and dont’ call yourself ‘Sage’ sage implies wisdom, and God is the beginning of wisdom.

  • LaDiva

    @ KeepNit2Real

    Your words touched my heart as u don’t know.
    God you are soo awesome.
    Many have tried to silence your words but they will never be silent..
    Jesus u are the truth, the way and light..

  • see

    ok, let’s try this. to all the people quoting the bible and defining which sin is greater and which one will send you to hell the fastest, try getting your life in order and making sure you are ready when the time comes. some of you sisters might need to take out the micro braids and get rid of the louis and coach bags. if no sin is greater than the next, you will be in the same hell you condemn homosexuals to. read 1 corinthians. and to those who go by the new testament only, i thought gods word was gods word, regardless which testament it’s in

  • GotYou

    @drenk some of these people are fools and their inability to see the error of their ways and that there thoughts are a clear contradiction of the Bible isn’t worth debating. Those perpetuating hate will be judged on their day as we all will be so you’re right it makes no sense to respond to the foolery to which they participate in.

    I make it a point to not judge anyone’s journey because I don’t want mine to be judged. I’m just shocked that it’s easy for (so called) CHRISTIANS to perpetuate hate while in the same breath praise GOD. Well it is what it is and I have to accept their ignorance as that – THEIR IGNORANCE.

  • ddmlibra

    @Drenk

    Your posts are evidence of depraved thinking. I bet you personally identify with child molesters, murderers, and you probably believed George Bush when he said Saddam Hussein had WMD. I’m not even trying to be insulting, just ‘guestimating’ your mind based on these posts.

    As far as the subject at hand, gays are people, their sin is at the same level as other peoples sins. But it’s still ugly, to see a man with a hard face with make-up like a woman. Or some female trying to act like a dude with another woman. The contrivance, the ‘wanna-be’ essence…it’s a hard life to live,I’m sure, and I’ll take the sins that I have versus those ones any day….

  • KeepNit2Real

    LaDiva

    12/22/09, 11:47:am

    @ KeepNit2Real

    Your words touched my heart as u don’t know.
    God you are soo awesome.
    Many have tried to silence your words but they will never be silent..
    Jesus u are the truth, the way and light..
    __________

    truth. And all people have to do is read the Bible for themselves and stop these personal crusades to benefit themselves.

    There is nothing anyone can say bad about the Bible because their is nothing bad in it except for those who chose to disobey God.

    There is only two looming issues in the Bible:

    God’s right to be worshiped as Universal Sovereign

    Satan’s challenge that man can do whatever he pleases.

    They will be answered very soon.

  • drenk

    @ ddmlibra

    not tryin to be insulting by saying i associate with kid touchers? i can tell youre trying really hard to sounds smart, keep trying though its not working so far.

    so because i dont believe the fairy tales in the bible i associate with child molesters and murderers? And if you saw who blindly followed bush with a thirst for arab blood, you would have seen it was bible thumpers like you who were banging the war drums. So go back to psych 101 and pay more attention (but not too close cuz they say bad things about god) because i’ve never heard of anyone being analyzed from their posts on a gossip website

  • Tara (Rebel to the Madness…)

    Congrats Mexico City!

  • –==

    can people just worry about their own salvation. if someone is doing something you don’t believe in or is in accordance with your religon and your god, why stress and make a big deal about it. The truth is in the end, they will have to deal with their god and you will have to deal with yours, so let people do what they think is right because you are doing what you think is right.

  • http://www.bossip.com Blah Blah Blah

    I don’t judge but if everyone were gay, how would we multiply, oh I forgot, artificial insemenation (if i spelled that right)! But isn’t that man discovered. Anyways, I don’t judge!!! I leave it all up to God.

  • http://www.bossip.com Blah Blah Blah

    Sounds like there are a lot of athiests on this blog. Hmmmm

  • drenk

    @ Blah Blah Blah

    not believing the bible word for word makes you an atheist?

  • I think it’s time to put this pussy on your sideburns!

    @KeepNit2Real,
    “but the good thing is we aren’t expected to do those things today…lol”

    I think u said it best yourself.

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  • t

    amen to dee…put the bible down (jus for a lil bit) and pick up an educational book. white ppl put this in our ancetsors minds years ago and it has carried us through so i wouldnt say its a bad thing to be really religious, i just think when you take it to a point where you attack someone else who doesnt feel the same way or sint living according to your beliefs you get aggressive, then there’s a problem. and the bible is hard for me to decipher through because it is fact that King Henry VIII made changes in the bible and i’m at least 90% sure another “king” did as well. so the bible has been tampered with over the yrs. this isnt something i was looking for, i was just reading the history of henry viii and that was a part of his story. it was only a smal chg however it proves that man wasnt above changing the holy text. either way worry about your own judgement day and while here on earth lets all do each other a fover and read other books. preferably history. you really run into some unexpected ish reading about our history…

  • nicoletta

    And this is supposed to be some kind of Victory for humanity??

  • B. Please

    Cost you nothing pay them no mind.

    Leave them be, I have never understood why people get so riled up about gay marriage.

    If they want to get married let them, how in the world does that affect you – direct or adversely.

    If you are a bigot just say you are a bigot – why hide behind the guise of being a Christian.

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