Mexico City mayor sues Catholic prelate
Marcelo Ebrard, mayor of Mexico City, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, archbishop of Guadalajara, for his claim that Ebrard bribed the country's Supreme Court into backing a gay marriage law approved by Mexico City's legislative assembly last December.
Mexico's federal government, currently headed by the conservative PAN Party, had challenged the law, arguing that it was detrimental to children. But in three consecutive decisions the court found the law to be constitutional, upheld its gay adoption provision and ruled that all of the country's 31 states must recognize gay marriages performed in the capital.
In an August 15 press conference at which he referred to gay men as "faggots," Cardinal Sandoval said that the judges would not have "come to these absurd conclusions" had they not been paid off with "gifts" from "Ebrard and international organizations."
