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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | May 2005 
Group Protests Gay Adoptions
 The Herald Mexico
| | Gay couples have been campaigning for change. |
Mexico City - A small group of protesters from the nation's scandalwracked National Pro-Life Committee delivered a letter to President Vicente Fox demanding a ban on adoptions of Mexican children by couples in countries that allow gay marriage.
The conservative, anti-abortion group known as Pro-Vida seized on the issue after legislators in Spain approved gay marriages on April 21. The activists, about a half-dozen of whom delivered the letter, said they were also concerned by U.S. states that allow gay marriage.
"We are here to defend the rights of children, who should be in families that consist of a man and a women," said Pro-Vida activist Lourdes Delgado, before delivering the letter to employees of the president's office.
"Starting with the enactment of the (Spanish) law, a Mexican child who is orphaned and offered for adoption abroad, could be given to two homosexuals or two lesbians," the letter stated. "For that reason, we are asking that adoptions to Spain be banned, given that the children could be given to a couple of homosexuals, rather than a family made up of a man and a woman."
Miguel มngel Salazar, another Pro-Vida activist, said "we reject the idea that this is a campaign against gay people, it isn't." But he claimed that children raised by gays would be more prone to suicide attempts or experiments with a homosexual lifestyle.
The American Psychiatric Association has said that most children being raised by gay parents get over any problems that arise because of their home environment, and "are as likely to be healthy and well-adjusted as children raised in households with heterosexual parents."
The Spanish bill, which must still be approved by the country's Senate, would make it the third country in Europe, after Belgium and the Netherlands, to legalize gay marriages.
Gay weddings began in Massachusetts a year ago, sparking a national backlash in the United States. Pro-Vida stopped short of calling for a ban on U.S. adoptions. |
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