Mexico City mayor demands cardinal apologize

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico City mayor demands cardinal apologize
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 1:33 PM

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico City's leftist mayor says he will take legal action if a Roman Catholic cardinal doesn't apologize for suggesting he bribed the Supreme Court to uphold a city law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says that if Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez does not apologize by midnight, he is going to file a slander complaint.

The church opposes the Mexico City law, but the Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional.

Ebrard made the demand Tuesday after the cardinal suggested the justices may have been paid to uphold the law.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081703163.html

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You might find this Washington Post article on the mayor from a couple of years ago worth a scan:
A Freewheeling Mayor
Mexico City's Marcelo Ebrard Uses Spectacle to Court the Masses

By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, September 1, 2008

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083102293.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_tA33gQyi2mU/STXkvnORtmI/AAAAAAAABXw/L7AfT7Gg9Bw/s400/marcelo-ebrard-jefe-de-gobierno-del-df370x270.jpg http://eldefe.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/marcelo-ebrard.jpg

[Judi Lynn]

1. Related, CSM: Mexico court upholds gay adoption law. Is Mexico more tolerant than US?

Mexico court upholds gay adoption law. Is Mexico more tolerant than US?
Mexico's Supreme Court upheld a law Monday that allows gay couples in the capital to adopt children. The gay adoption decision comes a week after the court upheld the constitutionality of gay marriage.
By Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer / August 17, 2010

Mexico City

In Mexico City, on the same day that a US federal appeals court put same-sex weddings on hold, the nation's Supreme Court upheld a law that allows gay couples in the capital to adopt children. The gay adoption decision comes a week after the court upheld the constitutionality in general of gay marriage, after it was granted in Mexico City last year.

It might be mere coincidence that the two decisions came down on the same day, but it points to a question that many are starting to ask with some incredulity: Is staunchly Catholic Latin America more tolerant than the US when it comes to rights for same-sex couples?

“As California and the United States struggle with the issue of same-sex marriage at the polls and in courtrooms, Latin America is moving more broadly toward acceptance of this basic human right,” reads an Aug. 13 opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. “This is a wrenching issue for traditionally conservative and deeply religious countries, influenced by Roman Catholic and Protestant evangelical churches opposed to gay unions. But throughout Latin America, marriage is a civil institution performed by the state. The recognition that religion and civil law have different roles to perform in marriage is often painfully absent in the debate in this country; Latin American nations have hewed to that distinction and are better off for it.”

More tolerance south of the border?
Mexico's Supreme Court decision "will have resonance for courts throughout the continent for protecting the basic human rights of LGBT people,” Juliana Cano Nieto, of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

More:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0817/Mexico-court-upholds-gay-adoption-law.-Is-Mexico-more-tolerant-than-US?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+World%29

[Peace Patriot]

2. Nice pic of Mayor Marcelo Ebrard with the angel behind him? nt