Moderator of Metropolitan Community Churches
Hails the Passage of Marriage Equality
in Mexico City

Mexico City became the first city in Latin America to legalise same-gender marriage on Monday, December 21st, with a revision to its civil code, defining marriage as “the free uniting of two people.”

“Many of our brothers and sisters worked hard for this day,” said The Rev. Elder Darlene Garner, Regional Elder serving Metropolitan Community Churches throughout Latin America, ” and I join my voice to the chorus that chanted before Mexico City legislators during yesterday’s historic vote, ‘!Si, se puede!’” — Yes we can! was the chant that greeted those who voted nearly 2 to 1 in favor of marriage equality.

In a separate vote, legislators also extended adoption and inheritance rights to lesbians and gay men, as well as the right for gay couples to cover each other on health care policies and to secure bank loans together.

In 2002 Buenos Aires became the first Latin American city to offer same-gender unions.  Mexico City followed suit in 2007, but yesterday’s vote went beyond the limited benefits of civil unions to ensure full marriage equality.

While some in prevailing religious traditions have received this blessing of the holiday season with a promise to pursue the restoration of inequality through the court system, we in Metropolitan Community Churches reaffirm once again our strong and Biblically based conviction that God is on the side of full human equality and that one day our LGBT siblings across the globe will be able to universally celebrate with the words of that angelic choir, “Peace on earth and goodwill among all!”

//signed

+The Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, Moderator

Metropolitan Community Churches