The following comes from a Jan. 12 story in the Gay Star News.
A gay couple have been barred from tying the knot in the Mexican state of Baja California for a third time following a complaint the men are insane.
Hairstylists Victor Manuel Aguirre, 43, and Fernando Urias, 37 have been trying to get married since the Supreme Court ruled they could in June 2013.
However, when the couple arrived at Mexicali city hall Saturday (10 January), they found the doors shut and instead of registry officials, they were greeted by dozens of Catholic and evangelical Christian protesters, many wearing blue surgical masks reading ‘only a man and a woman.’
Among the opponents to their wedding was Angelica Guadalupe Gonzalez Sanchez, president of the Coalition of Baja California Families, who filed the complaint.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, she said the pair had been ‘aggressive and impertinent’ after she refused to certify their attendance at one of her mandatory pre-marital talks.
Two months ago, registry officials refused to marry the men due to ‘unresolved paperwork issues.’
Aguirre and Urias said they would continue to try and get married undeterred.
‘One day, their tricks will end, and we will never get tired of trying,’ said the latter.
To read the original story, click here.
Awesome. These precious Catholics and evangelicals are putting into action what our beautiful church has always encouraged us to do which is to be doers of the word and to go out and live the gospel. James Hartline back in the day use to encourage us Catholics to unite and make our protests be heard by attending city counsel meetings and speak up against immoral stuff advocated by city officials. My friends at New Notes, back in the day, faithful Catholics to Rome, they always took action and im sure they still do.
Por favor, Señora Dana,
No mas California ex Governor “hasta la vista” to pour even more left coast coarse salt into the departing wound. How about another temporary “Vaya con Dios” until you return?! Thank you for the prayers!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Romans 5:20 Now the law entered in, that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.
I grew up at a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness and deviant behavior that could be prevented with self-control. It appears these officials haven’t been told the terrible news, that the new ‘sane’ includes men marrying men…impossibly ridiculous, absolutely insane and utterly preposterous but happening all the time in this totally out-of-God’s plan, out of moral law, out of any sort of precedent wacko country. I’m sick of reading about these fascist bullies who would have all of us end up where they’re headed, if they could. I’ve got too many neat things to do, people to pray for (especially the Christians in Africa and Syria, China, etc) to waste any more time reading abou the moral wasteland that is California…and its Mexican counterpart. Hast a la vista for quite a spell. If I were a faithful Catholic living on the left coast, I’d move to somewhere where my tax money wasn’t supporting all the stinking garbage that passes for laws out there and let the dad bury their dead. God bless you CCD and all you faithful people. California doesn’t deserve you.
News today — Jan. 18 — is that the “marriage” finally happened, sad to say.
Return to your Catholic roots Mexico. Wm. Hamilton thanks for the update, I was wondering what came of this.