Mexico's Christians Are Determined to Win an Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment in Miracle Move

Julie Brown Patton : Sep 8, 2016 : http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/66371/20160906/mexico-s -religious-conservatives-seek-anti-lgbt-constituti onal-amendment.htm - Gospel Herald

The mobilization is historic in Mexico because never before has a religious organization succeeded in presenting a bill. It's being considered "a miracle."

(Mexico)—[ http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/66371/20160906/mexico-s -religious-conservatives-seek-anti-lgbt-constituti onal-amendment.htm - Gospel Herald ] An evangelical organization, For Life and Family, recently gathered 300,000 in support of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from getting married in the country. The signatures were presented to the Chamber of Deputies after a march. The initiative would also add bans against abortion and sex education in schools into the constitution. (Photo: Facebook/via Gospel Herald)

Marriage equality has been spreading steadily in Mexico, thanks to a long-term legal strategy by activists who have brought case after case to the federal courts to win injunctions for couples, leading to legal and state-level legislative victories, reports Religion Dispatches.

From a report in El Norte: "Hugo Eric Flores, who is also leader of the PES, considered that God must become the focus of national policy. Once a spiritual government for all of us, seeking the face of the Lord asking Him to have mercy on this nation is established, you know what will happen? That [it will] just be lifted..." he said. Evangelical leaders added that mobilizing to San Lazaro was historic because never before has a religious organization succeeded in presenting a bill. This, they said they felt, was a miracle.

Catholic bishops reportedly have been vocal opponents of the initiative, though the Archdiocese of Mexico put out a statement that it is not among the organizers of the anti-marriage rallies planned by the National Front of the Family.

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