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Lee
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Mexico reaffirms gay marriages. Not hard to be more enlightened than California.
''....the Mexican Supreme Court voted overwhelmingly this month to uphold the capital's same-sex marriage statute as constitutional; to require such
unions to be recognized across the nation; and to permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children.''
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-g...
US Marines: providing enemies of America an opportunity to die for their country since 1775.
What I say before any important decision.
F*ck it.
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surfer jim
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Mexicorn
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I heard on the Colbert report last night that the GOP is contemplating putting up a fence to keep all of the Gay people in the US from crossing into
Mexico in a mass exodus!
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DianaT
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It is a very good thing----great news.
[Edited on 8-18-2010 by DianaT]
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lee
Not hard to be more enlightened than California. |
Isn't CA supposed to be the most 'enlightened' state?
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Skipjack Joe
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"Mexico reaffirms gay marriages. Not hard to be more enlightened than California"
You can't legislate people's minds. Now they have a law which virtually no Mexican believes in.
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Interesting concept - gay marriage suggests enlightenment. Where did that come from?
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MrBillM
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Where did it come from ?
Out of their Anus ?
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redhilltown
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Oh my god. Bill...WHAT a comedian! Good god man, how DOES one get so funny? Or maybe you were serious? Or maybe you just pull stuff out of...
Oh never mind.
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Mexicorn
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This thread is really getting humerous!
Doh!
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Osprey
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I see a new kind of crime wave along the border, perhaps all over Mexico. Drive-by slappings.
[Edited on 8-18-2010 by Osprey]
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bajabass
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You are dating yourself Osprey!  That is an old one. Oh, wait a minute, I
remember it. Does that mean  , yup.
Strange, such a hard core Catholic country would pass such a law. I can see
border zone wedding chapels springing up all over the place. Photo ops on painted donkeys!!! Don't forget the wild parties for the bride and bride, or
groom and groom, in the Zona Norte! Watch out Adelita's!!!
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
"Mexico reaffirms gay marriages. Not hard to be more enlightened than California"
You can't legislate people's minds. Now they have a law which virtually no Mexican believes in. |
I agree. Bigotry comes from within and one cannot legislate minds.
However, one can legislate to protect minorities and ensure their human and civil rights. The arguments against gay marriage are very much the same
as the ones used against interracial marrage in the past---that too had to be legislated in many places.
And often when the rights are granted and people see that it all the doomsday predictions do not come true, there is more acceptance.
And the idea that most Mexicans don't believe in it----well, many, many people did not believe in the granting of interracial marriages rights, but
just as in this case, the legislation was the correct thing for the protection of human rights.
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elizabeth
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This is not nation wide...only two places in Mexico where same sex marriage is legal: Mexico, DF and the state of Coahuila. The Supreme Court, in
saying that the legislation is constitutional, also said that all states must recognize marriages contracted in either of those two places without
extending the laws to the country as a whole. I don't imagine that there will be any legislation granting the right to same sex marriage in most of
the rest of socially conservative Mexico, any time soon.
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bajabass
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Oh well! So much for an influx of new businesses for TJ. 
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mercedes
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I don't think they all that "enlightened."
********.blogspot.com/2010/08/would-you-like-to-be-adopted-by-pair-of.html
[Edited on 8-20-2010 by BajaNomad]
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In California 7 million voters say ban gay marriage. In California one(1) judge overturns what 7 million citizens want. I guess Mexico has the same
mind set, screw what the people want.
And besides that, 99% of Mexicans are Catholic. The Catholic religion also says gay marriage is a no no. I guess their church is going down the tubes
too.
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TMW
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Some believe it should be and some believe it should not be. But if it is to be where would it stop or better yet where would your belief in such
stop. What about father and daughter or son, mother and son or daughter, sister and brother or sister. Throw in an uncle or aunt. The possibilities
are endless. Of course the question of children from such a union, but if the two parties can't have children should it be ban? We can get into the
animal side later.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajorge
In California 7 million voters say ban gay marriage. In California one(1) judge overturns what 7 million citizens want.
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Yes but there were 13.4 million valid votes.
Proposition 8 results:
Anti same sex marriage: 7,001,084 52.24%
Pro same sex marriage: 6,401,482 47.76%
So you could say the judge ruled in favor of what 6.4 million people want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)
But the number for and against isn't really the point.
[Edited on 8-18-2010 by k-rico]
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bajabass
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That is not democracy in action, is it?
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