Mexican court upholds adoption by gay couples

[JI7]

Source: ians

Mexico’s Supreme Court has upheld a Mexico City ordinance allowing same-sex couples to adopt children, saying there was no evidence that homosexuals were worse parents than heterosexuals.

By a vote of 9-2, the judges gave gay and lesbian couples the same rights to adopt children as heterosexual couples.

‘It was not able to be demonstrated that the fact of being raised by homosexual parents harms children, or that homosexual parents would be worse parents than heterosexuals, or that these children would be put at risk, in turn, of becoming homosexuals,’ said magistrate Arturo Zaldivar.

Another judge, Margarita Luna Ramos, said the question of adoption was not a matter ‘of gender’ but rather one ‘of people’. She said the requirements for adopting are all suitable because adoption authorities would take into account personal qualities, education and the level of ‘commitment’ of the couple to the prospective adopted child.

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[madmax]

1. Simply put.

'...adoption was not a matter ‘of gender’ but rather one ‘of people’.

Viva Mexico

[provis99]

2. dandy. so third world Mexico is more culturally advanced than us.

We really live in a stupid redneck country.

[JI7]

3. These are the Courts , not vote by the people

hopefully the same will happen here. Kennedy is the big question. but i would feel a lot more comfortable if Scalia or one of the others on that side would leave and be replaced.