Supreme Court Judge Wants to Allow Same-Sex Couples to Adopt Children Nationwide Ioan Grillo - GlobalPost
go to original July 14, 2015

SCJN Associate Justice Margarita Luna Ramos (Borderland Beat)

Mexican Supreme Court Judge Margarita Luna has announced that she will present a motion to make it unconstitutional to deny adoption to same-sex couples.

This would make adoption laws already approved in the Mexican capital, a heartland of socially liberal reforms, effective throughout the country, including in much more conservative states.

In June, Mexico’s high court also ruled it unconstitutional to deny marriage to people of the same sex — shortly before the US Supreme Court did exactly the same thing.

Under a leftist city assembly, Mexico City became the first place in Latin America to legalize gay marriage with the 2009 reform. Adoptions by couples who married under this law have been taking place since 2010.

The northern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas, also legalized gay marriage, in September 2014. And last month, two women became the state’s first same-sex couple to adopt a child.

Still, nationwide, Mexico is not exactly the bastion of liberalism it may sound like. Eighty-two percent of Mexicans identify themselves as Catholic, according to the census. And more staunchly conservative parts of the country are pushing in quite a different direction from Coahuila and Mexico City.

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Related: Famed Mexican Gay Couple Helps Blaze Adoption Trail (Agence France-Presse)

La otra familia; son la primera pareja del mismo sexo en adoptar (ElUniversalTV)

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