By John Mack Freeman
Victor Manuel Aguirre and Fernando Urias have become the first same sex couple to legally wed in the Mexican state of Baja California. The couple had previously been denied a marriage license three times. The third time occurred last week when the couple’s were denied mandatory counseling by a religious figure who then told the court that they were too “crazy” to get married.
The couple’s lawyer filed a complaint against the city of Mexicali. Via Gay Star News:
The pair then went to the Supreme Court and got an injunction authorizing their union.
The pair was however rejected a second time by the Civil Registry saying bureaucratic procedures had not been followed.Their third attempt was unsuccessful when their ceremony slated to take place on Jan 10 was cancelled due to a complaint that the two men ‘suffer from madness.’
Angelica Guadalupe Gonzalez Sanchez, president of the Coalition of Baja California Families, who with her husband gives mandatory pre-marital talks to couples, said the pair had been ‘aggressive and impertinent’ after she refused to certify their attendance in her talk. Her husband had reportedly told them that the sessions were intended for heterosexual couples, the San Diego Union-Tribune said.
The couple’s lawyer Jose Luis Marquez Saavedra then filed a complaint on Friday accusing the mayor, two municipal workers and a state employee of failing to fulfill their public duties.
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Watch the video of this historic wedding below:
