Mexico’s president proposes constitutional amendment legalizing same-sex ‘marriage’
Mexico’s besieged president Enrique Peña Nieto
provoked jeers from many members of a skeptical electorate when he announced a
new initiative Tuesday to amend the constitution to impose homosexual and
transsexual “marriage” on the entire country.
The amendment would guarantee that people “can
enter into a marriage without discrimination for ... gender or sexual
preference,” according to the president’s announcement.
The president’s initiative appears to be an
attempt to counteract a massive popular campaign to amend the constitution to
protect the traditional family and prohibit homosexual “marriage,” which is
currently being imposed on the states by the Supreme Court. More than 240,000
Mexicans signed petitions in favor of the amendment, and the National Congress
is now considering it.
While homosexual activists and their
sympathizers praised the president’s pro-homosexual and transgender initiative,
a large number responded with expressions of contempt on his Facebook page and
Twitter account.
Under the announcement on Facebook, which
contained a photo of a government building bathed in the colors of the LGBT
rainbow, one Diego Vega remarked, “Although there are better causes to fight
for and for which to seek change, you are now legalizing this crap that only serves
to control those sectors of the population that will benefit instead of getting
rid of things that really are damaging the country.”
Marisol Glez Carrion wrote that “there are
those who will call you to account for decisions which transcend generations
and which were your responsibility to guide in an ethical and responsible way!
I see that you don’t take into account what God thinks and you’re only thinking
about what man thinks ... please consider well the implications of this ... you
will be held accountable by God.”
The comments occupied the number two and three
spots below the announcement in number of “likes.”
The president, who is widely seen as an inept,
do-nothing administrator and a corrupt defender of special interests, has seen
his approval ratings plummet to 32 percent since his election in 2012. Although
he regards himself as a Catholic, his administration is advancing a
pro-abortion and pro-LGBT agenda in apparent response to heavy international
pressure.
Recent polls have continued to show that a
large number of Mexicans oppose homosexual “marriage,” with percentages against
it ranging from 44 percent to 62 percent over the last three years, and
percentages from 36 percent to 52 percent in favor. A majority of Mexicans
continue to oppose the legalized killing of the unborn in most cases as well.
Juan Dabdoub Giacoman, president of the
National Council for the Family (ConFamilia), which is leading the campaign to
amend the constitution in favor of the traditional family, said that his group
welcomes a debate with the president.
ConFamilia “welcomes the President of the
Republic and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to the debate
initiated by our people through the first Initiative of Citizen Constitutional
Reform in the history of Mexico, over natural marriage and the natural family,
presented to the Senate of the Republic last February 23, accompanied by
240,000 signatures,” said Dabdoub in a press communique.
“The initiative promoted by President Peña
Nieto, supported by his party, the PRI, is a proposal that positions him and
his party in an anti-family stance that that violates the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights,” added Dabdoub.
