Benjamin Medrano, Mexico's First Openly Gay Mayor, Does Not Back Gay Marriage Manuel Rueda - ABC News
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Benjamin Medrano, center, raises his arms with other unidentified people during a campaign event in Chichimequillas, Mexico, Friday, June 7, 2013. Medrano, the first openly gay mayor ever elected in Mexico, is scheduled to take office in the rough, violence-plagued state of Zacatecas in September. (Benjamin Medrano/AP)

Benjamin Medrano is the first openly gay mayor in Mexico. But he opposes gay marriage.

Medrano, 47, recently won the election in Fresnillo, a conservative and largely rural county in Zacatecas state. He thinks it´s too early (and perhaps politically unsavvy) to support this cause.

"I'm not in favor of gay marriage," Medrano told the AP explaining that "we are still a very small town ... we're not prepared, in my view."

Medrano said that as a Catholic, he wished the church had "a different view" on that matter, but added: " I cannot go against doctrine ... I respect my church, and I don't want to dig any deeper beyond what's permitted and what is appropriate."

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