Jalisco Gay Community Press Charges Against Cardinal for 'Inciting Violence' EFE
go to original June 27, 2015

Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez (EFE)

Gay community organizations of the Mexican State of Jalisco have lodged a criminal complaint against Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, for "discrimination and inciting violence" by declaring that same-sex marriages are an "aberration".

"We are asking he complies with the rule of law. With his statements he is fomenting homophobia and transphobia," told Efe Carlos Becerra, a member of 'Union Diversa', one of the 12 associations that filed the compliant with the Attorney General of Jalisco.

In a nearly six-minute video released on social networks and the Catholic channel Maria Vision, Sandoval Iniguez said "according to the Christian revelation" marriage is between a man and a woman, and that "the rest is deviant."

"What you get out of this divine institution is an attack against it. It is an aberration and cannot fit in the mind of a Catholic," he said.

...The organizations that are pressing charges believe that these statements not only discriminate against the gay community, but also violate the Mexican and Jalisco Constitution, Federal Law to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination, Penal Code of Jalisco and the Act of Religious Associations and Public Worship.

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