Mexico City - The Mexican Supreme Court has ruled the same sex marriage ban in the state of Sinaloa was unconstitutional. The ruling on April 15, 2015 is in response to an amparo, a petition for legal recourse in Mexico, that a gay couple filed in Sinaloa.

Sinaloa's family code section 40 and 165 defined marriage between a man and a woman - and was declared unconstitutional.

The Mexican Supreme court declared, "The contested provisions are clearly discriminatory because the relationships in which homosexual couples engage can fit perfectly into the actual fundamentals of marriage and living together and raising a family. For all of those relevant effects, homosexual couples can find themselves in an equivalent situation to heterosexual couples, in such a way that their exclusion from both institutions is totally unjustified."

Gay marriage in Mexico has been legal in Mexico City since 2010 and in the state of Coahuila since 2013. Marriage outside these states has been allowed, but requires the couple to file an amparo.

The Mexican Supreme Court has supported LGBT rights throughout all of Mexico. Here is a summary of their support:

On August 18, 2014 the court issued a landmark protocol to guarantee the rights of the LGBT community and their access to justice in Mexico; Colima was ordered to approved a gay marriage in June 2014; in April of 2014, the Court ruled in favor of more than three dozen people who challenged Oaxacan law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. They also ruled in 2013 in favor of three same-sex couples who separately sought to marry in Oaxaca.

Also in June 2013, the Supreme Court declared a gay couple from the city of Mexicali could legally marry. The two men, Victor Fernando Urias Amparo and Victor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza, finally married in January 2015 after local officials repeatedly blocked them from exchanging vows.

To read the Supreme Court ruling, (in Spanish) click HERE.