Mexican Supreme Court says states have no right to sue against homosexual ‘marriage’
MEXICO CITY, January 25, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Mexican Supreme Court ruled this week in a 7-4 vote that the states of Jalisco and Baja California do not have a legitimate legal interest in their suit challenging Mexico City’s homosexual “marriage” law, which also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.
The two states sued on the grounds that the Mexico City law, by way of the Constitution’s “full faith and credit” clause, requires them to accept homosexual marriages and adoptions within their own jurisdictions, despite the fact that the states do not recognize homosexual “marriage.”
Mexico's Supreme Court
Six out of 11 justices signed a decision yesterday claiming that the states have no basis for suits against the law because they are not required to change their own laws.
However, Luna Ramos, one of four judges who dissented from the majority decision, observed that the Supreme Court’s previous decision requires other states to accept laws that run contrary to their own.
Two other dissenting judges observed that the decision by the majority leaves open the extent to which Mexico’s 31 states must comply with the terms of Mexico City’s homosexual “marriage” law.
Noting that the states “already know” that “you have to regard them (homosexual ‘marriages’) as valid,” Minister Jose Ramon Cossio added that it had not been determined if “you have to give them the same effect that you give to marriages between people of different sexes without discriminating.”
The ruling is similar to one given in February of 2010 regarding the states of Tlaxcala, Morelos, and Guanajuato. However, at that time the Supreme Court had not yet required other states to give “full faith and credit” to “marriages” contracted between homosexuals.
