The Congress of Chiapas approved this Thursday, December 26, with 30 votes in favor and four abstentions, equal marriage in the State; making it the penultimate to approve the union between people regardless of their sexual orientation, leaving Chihuahua and Guanajuato, where marriages are allowed only by decree.
During the ordinary session, the plenary of the Legislature approved reforms to articles 144, 145, 169 and 174 of the Civil Code of Chiapas to include in marriage all people regardless of their preference or sexual practice.
‘HISTORICAL OMISSION’
Deputy Marcela Castillo, from the Morena legislative group, said that with the reform to the Civil Code “a historical omission” is corrected, and it is recognized that marriage “is the union between two people regardless of their sexual orientation.”
This recognition, said the member of the gender equality commission from the Tribune, is not only a legislative act, but one of justice and dignity towards all people.
“Today we are correcting a historic motion. Today they are being given social justice, their rights are being recognized to the LGBTIQ+ community, a struggle of years to obtain access to their basic social rights such as medical care,” said the deputy.
EQUAL MARRIAGE IN MEXICO
Since 2015, she specified, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) declared unconstitutional the laws that limited marriage.
Equal marriage is the result of the struggle of decades of civil organizations, “that even with everything and a sentence to access their rights had to promote amparo trials so that the institutions would respect and validate such recognition,” said Castillo.
By court order, he added, seven years after the Court’s ruling, legal recognition occurs, so in Chiapas “never again will any person be left defenseless because of their sexual orientation.”
The Civil Code accused that it continues “dragging discriminatory language that does not reflect the values of equality, respect for rights or the humanism of the new era.”
Castillo pointed out that Chiapas will be the penultimate state to guarantee the rights of all people without discrimination based on sexual orientation.
In addition, “the Supreme Court will not be allowed to correct the Congress of Chiapas, on the contrary, this Legislature has been characterized by positioning the progressive agenda with sectors that have had long-standing debts.”
Source: vanguardia
