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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2007 
Mexican Bishop Denounces Civil Unions
 Associated Press
| | The Coahuila law provides gay couples with numerous social benefits similar to those of married couples. |
Piedras Negras - Mexico's first gay civil union has upset a Roman Catholic bishop in the state where it occurred.
Bishop Alonso Garza of Piedras Negras said Friday that Mexico's first gay civil union - which occurred Wednesday in his state's capital of Saltillo - was "a disgrace" and "a show."
Karla Lopez and Karina Almaguer, both of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, became the first gay couple in Mexico to register a civil union, taking advantage of a Coahuila state law approved in January.
"This is a disgrace," Garza said, and he lamented that the state had attracted international attention for "this kind of situation."
Coahuila is the only of Mexico's 31 states to recognize such unions, though a similar measure takes effect in mid-March in Mexico City, which has most of the same powers as a state.
The Coahuila law provides gay couples with numerous social benefits similar to those of married couples.
"We have always said we respect [homosexuals'] way of thinking, but we are definitely against this show," Garza said of the media frenzy stirred up by the first union.
The conservative National Action Party of President Felipe Calderon has joined the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico in strongly criticizing the laws in Coahuila state and Mexico City. |
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