Members of the Family's National Front in Mexico (FNF) protested against gay marriage at the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) offices in Tijuana. Their written demands include a 'call to reason' for PRI's national director to scrap an initiative that would allow same-sex individuals to legally marry, as proposed by Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto.
However, Tijuana's Law School rector, Román Antonio Aboytes Hernández, thinks quite the opposite. He says the state is obligated by law to validate the freedoms of their citizens, especially when these freedoms were approved by the Supreme Court.
Protestors threatened with political retaliation by pulling support from the party in these upcoming elections, confident that most of Tijuana's population is against gay marriage. "They can call it what they will, 'civil contract' even, but not 'marriage', because this affects other kinds of rights, like adopting children, down the line", said Ricardo Cano Castro, coordinator of the FNF.
These written demands were received by staffers at the PRI offices, and FNF members hope for them to reach the party's national leader, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, in Mexico City. This is the first of many planned protests against the right for homosexual individuals to legally marry in Tijuana.
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Translated by axel.alcala@sandiegored.com
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