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President Enrique Peña Nieto proposes legalisation of same-sex marriage in Mexico | President Enrique Peña Nieto proposes legalisation of same-sex marriage in Mexico |
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President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed that same-sex marriage be legalised in Mexico, following a progressive move in the country toward marriage equality. | |
Mr Peña Nieto announced his proposal at a Tuesday event marking the national day against homophobia. After meeting with LGBTI groups, he said, the president said he signed initiatives that would secure marriage equality in the Mexican Constitution. | |
"I reiterated the commitment of the [Mexican government] to combat all forms of discrimination, including the motivated by sexual preferences #SinHomofobia," he tweeted. | |
Mexico legalised same-sex marriage in 2009, and four of the country's 31 states have followed suit - although Campeche, the latest state to adopt marriage equality laws, has not yet implemented them, the AFP reports. | |
The Mexican Supreme Court ruled that bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional in June 2015. That did not bring forth an official legalisation throughout the country, however. | |
To the contrary, Estefanía Vela, a law scholar at a university in Mexico City, said that because all of the states had not legalised same-sex marriage did not necessarily mean it was illegal. | |
“Without a doubt, gay marriage is legal everywhere," Ms Vela told the New York Times last year. "If a same-sex couple comes along and the code says marriage is between a man and a woman and for the purposes of reproduction, the court says, ‘Ignore it, marriage is for two people'.” | |
Mexico would become the fifth Latin American country to legalise same-sex marriage, should the country enact the president's proposal. | |
Colombia legalised same-sex marriage in April. |
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