Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera categorically denounced the Mexico City government´s attempt to grant legal recognition to homosexual unions.
The Democratic Revolutionary Party´s plan to legalize homosexual unions fizzled anyway, after it failed to gain political support from the National Action Party (PAN) or the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Mexico City is a federal district with its own legislature. Proponents of the plan had expected to introduce the measure to the legislature next week.
Cardinal Rivera Carrera, archbishop of the capital, called the proposal «an attack on and degradation of the family institution, recognized by the civil laws and the Mexican Constitution.»
