Posted on 01/14/2007 1:17:01 PM PST by Coleus
The northern state of Coahuila, a mining and ranching region south of Texas, approved gay civil union Thursday, becoming the second area in Mexico to give legal status to homosexual partnerships. Legislators in the state Congress voted 20-13 for a bill that gives gays greater rights than a similar law backed by Mexico City last November.
“It is more like a civil marriage,” said Silvia Solis, a gay rights activist in the capital. She said Coahuila would grant social security benefits to both members of a homosexual union, an important demand of gay campaigners. The law was promoted by Coahuila's Institutional Revolutionary Party, which rules the state.
Coahuila once formed a state with Texas, which was part of Mexico before the United States annexed much of what is now the U.S. Southwest in the mid-19th century. The Argentine capital Buenos Aires legalized same-sex unions in 2002, in a move hailed as a first in Latin America.
So much for those "Conservative CAtholic" Mexicans we've all been hearing about who will save CAlifornia from liberalism.
Dittos
You're confusing the religion of many Mexicans with the politics of the government. The favorite pastime in Mexico since Independence has been the sport of gelding the Church.
The law was promoted by Coahuila's Institutional Revolutionary Party, which rules the state.
Look what happened back in 1926 when the Catholics decided they wouldn't take it anymore: The Cristero War.
Something like 90,000 people from both sides died. The country is Catholic. The government is not.
These homosexual Mexicans will target American social security next.
How did we go from a comment about Mexican history to guessing about slippery slopes on American cliffs?
Especially now that the Democrats have nominal control of Congress, our government is capable of any number of slip slides down your steep cliff.
Because Mexico is near to running things in the southwest.
Ok. It might be interesting to play.
By "Mexico," just who do you mean? The government of Mexico? Who, exactly, is near to running things in the southwest?
My comment was not an argument, circular or otherwise. I reported a historical fact.
All Mexicans by law are required to vote, whether they obey the law or not. The question for many Mexicans is not who votes but whose vote counts.
That's one reason Mexico spent a huge chunk of the previous century in death dealing civil war and why some think it is on the verge of repeating that history at the beginning of this century.
I'm not playing. We are losing our citizenship while the elites play.
Good old Arizona, the biggest libertarian state, is now a liberal play ground run by a Hillary-clone lesbian and Soros with regular visits by President Bush and his wife to all the illegal alien community centers.
The one thing they all agree on is that illegal Mexicans should get social security benefits.
***The northern state of Coahuila, a mining and ranching region south of Texas, approved gay civil union Thursday, becoming the second area in Mexico to give legal status to homosexual partnerships.***
Must be something in the water. According to the NARRATIVE OF THE CORONADO EXPIDITION by CASTANEDA, In 1540, when Coronado made his expidition into the unnexplored regions of the area, while looking for the seven Cities of Cibola, he found many villages of "Sodomites" in the regions there.
Oh, yes, they are soooooooo going to come here and vote conservatively (not) /s
They country has a rapidly growing Mormon population, they are not that Catholic anymore.
The anti-religious laws of Mexico were not only anti-Catholic, but provided a ban on all proselytization by foreigners. This was aimed mainly at Protestant missionaries from the US, but would also prevent Roman Catholic priests from other countries from coming to Mexico.
Latin Americans are not all Roman Catholic. In many countries, Pentecostal denominations are very active, and often they are more lively and growing faster than the Roman Catholics.
I have not seen a survey of religious practice among Hispanic immigrants to the US, but I suspect that the "no religion" category is very high. In Mexico the rural priests were largely eliminated in the wars of the 1920s, so later generations grew up with little religious influence. What religion they have tends to be rather primitive and superstitious, and has definite traces of pre-Columbian practice.
Oh Pancho!
Oh Cisco!!
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