Seventeen people were murdered at a gay party in the northern Mexico city of Torreon yesterday. The party was advertised on Facebook, where it was noted that while the event was being organized by a gay group, all were welcome. Police say gunmen burst into the room and wordlessly opened fire after blocking the exits. Investigators have not ruled out …
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Mexico City Offers Free Honeymoon To First Gay-Married Argentine Couple
Mexico City’s tourism agency is offering a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to wed under Argentina’s just-passed marriage equality law. The offer was “in recognition of tolerance, but also to promote gay friendly tourism in Mexico City,” said Alejandro Rojas, according to a statement. Argentina on Thursday became the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, …
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Rep. Steve King: Arizona Rep Has Already Ceded His District To Mexico
Moronic Rep. Steve King (R-IA) says that since Rep. Raul Grijalva is calling for a boycott of his own state, the U.S. has “already ceded” his district to Mexico. Bonus racist pandering points from Fox host Laura Ingraham in the below clip. Well, it looks like the case is that, that he’s trying to scare the businesses out of Arizona, …
Read More »Bull To Matador: Ole’ THIS
One of the world’s most famous matadors was brutally injured during a bullfight in Mexico this weekend, prompting renewed calls to ban the “sport.” You may not want to watch this.
Read More »MEXICANS GET OUT: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Racist Anti-Immigrant Bill
Facing reelection and desperate to appease teabaggers, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has just signed her state’s racist anti-immigrant bill. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the nation’s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure that supporters said would take handcuffs off police but which President Barack Obama said could violate people’s civil rights. The bill, sent to …
Read More »Catholic Bishop: It’s All Because Of Porn
Bishop Felipe Arizmendi is blaming the Catholic church’s global pedophilia scandal on television and internet porn. “With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it’s not easy to stay celibate or to respect children,” Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near Mexico City on Thursday. “If on television and on the Internet and in so many …
Read More »88 Gay Couples Married In Mexico City
So far 88 gay couples have wed under Mexico City’s new marriage equality law. A statement from Mexico City’s government says 50 of the couples were men and 38 women. It said Monday that 37 more gay couples are scheduled to be married between April and June. Mexico City’s legislature passed the first law in Latin America explicitly giving gay …
Read More »Mexico City’s First Gay Marriages
Four gay couples legally married at Mexico City’s Municipal Palace yesterday in the first such event in their nation’s history. ¡Felicidades! The mayor was there. So were the protesters. Judith Vazquez wore an ivory wedding dress. So did her bride. Vazquez and Lol Kin Castaneda on Thursday became the first gay couple to marry in Mexico under a new law …
Read More »Gay Marriage Comes To Mexico City
Today is the first day that gay couples in Mexico City can register to marry. The law, which was passed by the city’s local assembly in December, gives gay people full marital rights, including the right to adopt. Several gay couples are now expected to register to get married as early as next week. Mexico City is one of the …
Read More »Federal Gov’t Challenges Mexico City’s New Same-Sex Marriage Law
Mexico’s federal government has filed a challenge to Mexico City’s marriage equality law, saying it is dangerous to children. Or something. The federal Attorney General’s Office has challenged the law on the basis that it violates the constitution. The office has asked Mexico’s Supreme Court to void the law because it “strays from the responsibility of the government to place …
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Read More »Mexico City Approves Gay Marriage
Today lawmakers in Mexico City legalized same-sex marriage! Mexico City is now the largest city in the world to approve marriage equality and is the second national capital to do so in less than a week, following Washington DC. Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will …
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Mexico Gets It Right
Yesterday Mexico decriminalized the possession of, well, everything. Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge. The law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer …
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Mexico police are seeking two drag queens for the murders of two midget wrestlers who were found dead in their hotel room after a “drinking orgy.” Brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez, known as Parkita and Espectrito II, were found dead in a hotel room last month. Police had first said they were looking for two hookers, who are understood to …
Read More »Passports Now Required To Enter Mexico & Canada – 70% Of Americans Can’t Go
As of yesterday you now need a passport to enter Canada and Mexico – rendering 70% of the country unable to visit even our closest neighbors. American travelers entering the U.S. by land, air or sea from Mexico, Canada, Bermuda or the Caribbean are now required to carry a U.S. passport. “The basic, number one rule is that everyone should …
Read More »Texas Mayor Resigns To Move To Mexico With Undocumented Immigrant Partner
Mayor J.W. Lown of San Angelo, Texas sent a FedEx to his city council to let them know he had moved to Mexico so that he could be with his partner, who had been in the United States illegally. J W Lown was elected in 2003 as the city’s youngest ever mayor at the age of 32. He has been …
Read More »Swine Flu Outbreak Fuels Immigrant Haters On Wingnut Radio
Pam Spaulding points us to this Media Matters recap of swine flu quotes from wingnut radio blowhards Michael Savage, Neal Boortz, and Glenn Beck. Savage: “How do you protect yourself? What can you do? I’ll tell you what I’m going to do, and I don’t give a damn if you don’t like what I’m going to say. I’m going to …
Read More »Bank Teller Quits Over Mexican IDs
Christianist site World Net Daily is canonizing a Virginia bank teller because he quit rather than adhere to a new policy requiring the acceptance of ID cards issued by the Mexican consulate. A personal banker in Arlington, Va., is quitting his job after Chevy Chase Bank, one of the largest and best-known banks in the Washington, D.C., region announced it …
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