Mexico’s Supreme Court endorses same-sex marriage
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- Published on Friday, 14 December 2012 11:55
- Written by Duncan Tucker
In a potential landmark decision for gay rights in Mexico, this country’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of three couples seeking same-sex marriages in Oaxaca.
The tribunal agreed unanimously on December 5 that a state law banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The judges said Article 143 of Oaxaca’s Civil Code was discriminatory in defining marriage only as the union between a man and a woman.