Mexico City's In!

Wow, just last week I was writing about Washington, DC's council's new legislation allowing for same-sex marriages, and now Mexico City has done it too, changing the definition of marriage to the rather liberating: the free uniting of two people.

¡felicidades!

And there are parallels:

1) The Roman Catholic Church continues to be the uninformed party-poopers. Armando Martinez, the president of the College of Catholic Attorneys, said:

They have given Mexicans the most bitter Christmas. They are permitting adoption (by gay couples) and in one stroke of the pen have erased the term 'mother' and 'father.'

Amazing powers that same-sex couples have, eliminating the terms "mother" and "father"! Wow. Actually, it will be used together just as often, but complimented by the terms "my mothers" and "my fathers."

2) Just as US lawmakers can allude to our nation's elimination of anti-miscegenation laws in 1967 in Loving v Virginia, Mexico City lawmaker Victor Romo, a member of the mayor's leftist party, said:

For centuries unjust laws banned marriage between blacks and whites or Indians and Europeans. Today all barriers have disappeared.

Ah, human nature. People are gay all over the world, people are prejudiced all over the world and people have reasoning skills all over the world.

Before the backlash inevitably sets in (as it did for the abortion laws Mexico City recently passed), let's enjoy Mexico City's progressivism and leadership in Latin America.

¡felicidades!