Posted on 01/16/2015 8:05:21 PM PST by Olog-hai
This city on the border with California has for a fourth time blocked a gay couple from marrying in defiance of an order from Mexico’s Supreme Court, the men’s lawyer said Friday.
Attorney José Luis Márquez Saavedra said he has filed a complaint against Mexicali’s mayor and other officials seeking to force them to let Victor Fernando Urias Amparo and Victor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza wed. He accused the city of using procedural technicalities to keep them from tying the knot.
Mayor Jaime Rafael Díaz Ochoa, a member of the conservative National Action Party, which has historic ties to the Roman Catholic Church and has opposed same-sex marriage in the past, said officials are just trying to follow the law.
The state of Baja California, where Mexicali is, does not allow same-sex marriage. …
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I Will Not Comply!
This should be what we are demanding of our representatives, our Governors, our Mayors, our Judges.
This is what WE should be doing.
We need to force our State governments to quit complying with unconstitutional edicts from Non-Elected judges.
call the cartles to get rid of the pesky lawyer in an ‘accident’
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