The Mexican President wants same-sex marriages – and all that comes with it. What about Mexicans?

By Marianna Orlandi, Ph.D. | May 19, 2016

On Tuesday, May 17th, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his intention to change the Constitution to allow same sex marriage.

His decision follows a 2015 Mexico’s Supreme Court’s opinion, stating that it is discriminatory to define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. The Court did not go as far as to legalize same-sex marriages; but the recent move of the President shows how powerful judges can be. As it happened in the United States, Courts’ opinions are eroding the powers of the legislatures all around the world. Thus, democracy is being eroded; with democracy, the will of the people too.

The Mexican leader wants to protect a “new” family by amending the country’s Constitution. He wants to offer safeguards and public aids (spouse’s pensions, just to name one) to a “family” which is indisputably incapable to generate children and that is based exclusively on the reciprocal feelings of the partners.

Furthermore, the Mexican head of state announced the proposal of a new regulation for birth certificates, so that they may report the “gender identity” of the individual, regardless of his/her biological sex. This move, which is equally consistent with the LGBT agenda, poses serious questions of both health and security, amongst others.

As for security, the fact that an individual’s self-identification as man or woman might soon be sufficient for issuing him/her an identity document seems problematic in a time of worldwide terrorism’s risings, and in area where transnational criminal organizations are, still, extremely powerful.

With reference to health, one may simply imagine how difficult it would be to provide the “right” gender treatments to the new “self-identified” patients, especially in cases of emergency. Sex-reassignment surgery, in fact, is not sufficient to change the biological nature of the individual. Moreover, experts suggest that “mental distress and rates of suicide after surgery are as great as the distress and suicidal thoughts before it”.

The Mexican President said that he wants to remove “any form of discrimination” from the national laws. Besides homosexual adoption, this may soon mean: gender-neutral bathrooms; transgender teachers employed in religious schools; private companies compelled to offer their services for homosexual marriages, for homosexual adoptions, etc. No slippery-slope argument here: these things are happening now, wherever the LGBT agenda is “running free”.

President Nieto’s decision seems to run counter to the opinion of the Mexican people with 80 percent of Mexicans identifying as Catholic. The legalization of same sex marriage clearly violates the Church teaching and ignores  recent calls by Pope Francis for the protection of the family worldwide.

The Mexican Conference of Bishops issued an immediate response to Nieto’s proposal, with a statement signed by its president, Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, saying that de-facto and same-sex unions cannot be assimilated to marriage.

The vote of the people, however, may be irrelevant. Nieto needs a two-third majority to amend the Constitution and many believe that he could already get it, since his party already controls nearly half the seats.

Mexicans who want to protect the family, to protect the children, and to protect their democratic freedom must act, now. They must joint their forces and manifest their oppositions in new and effective ways through grassroots initiatives. CitizenGo is there. Doing this now.

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