Mexico fully legalizes gay marriage – Yerevan – Armenia News
Lawmakers in the border state of Tamaulipas voted to legalize same-sex marriages, becoming the last of Mexico’s 32 states to authorize such unions, Independent reported.
It took seven years for the state to fully legalize gay marriage.
The measure to amend the state’s Civil Code passed with 23 votes in favor, 12 against and two abstentions, setting off cheers of “Yes, we can!” from supporters of the change.
The session took place as groups both for and against the measure chanted and shouted from the balcony, and legislators eventually moved to another room to finish their debate and vote.
The president of the Supreme Court, Arturo Zaldivar, welcomed the vote. “The whole country shines with a huge rainbow. Live the dignity and rights of all people. Love is love,” he said on Twitter.
A day earlier, lawmakers in the southern state of Guerrero approved similar legislation allowing same-sex marriages.
The Supreme Court had deemed the ban on same-sex unions as unconstitutional back in 2015. Since then, the country’s states have legalized gay marriage one after another. That process took the longest in Guerrero and Tamaulipas.