{"id":1962,"date":"2015-06-14T18:26:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2015-06-14T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T23:50:47","slug":"progress-made-in-same-sex-marriage-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1962","title":{"rendered":"Progress made in same-sex marriage in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two pieces of news came down this week that are good news for same-sex marriage in Mexico. First, the Mexico Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2015\/06\/mexico-supreme-court-declares-same-sex-marriage-bans-unconstitutional\/\">ruled that it is unconstitutional <\/a>for the Mexican states to bar same-sex marriage. However, the ruling is a jurisprudential thesis and as such does not invalidate any existing laws. The ruling found that any law that predicated procreation as the major function of marriage to be invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Mexico&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2015\/06\/11\/70034\">largest state of Chihuahua <\/a>in the north central part of the nation?(picture above) has lifted all restrictions to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Two pieces of news came down this week that are good news for same-sex marriage in Mexico. First, the Mexico Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for the Mexican states to bar same-sex marriage. However, the ruling is a jurisprudential thesis and as such does not invalidate any existing laws. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[137,138,136,101],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-chihuahua","tag-judicial","tag-mexico","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}