A Mexican leader last week told supporters that gay couples cannot
marry because they don't face each other while having sex.
Ana Maria Jimenez Ortiz, a local deputy of the PAN Party in
Puebla, said during a forum on whether to legalize gay marriage in
the state of Puebla that “marriage should only be considered as
those relationships in which the members have sex while facing each
other.”
Jimenez Ortiz said that this “does not occur between gay
couples,” Mexican
media reported. She added that blind people are also in that
category, but it was unclear whether she was talking about legally
blind people or those who prefer to have sex with the lights off.
She said that this was based on the scientific method, asserting
that only eye contract at time of copulation creates a true union.
“Who pretends to love decently using the favorite position of
dogs!” she said. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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PAN is one of three main political parties in Mexico. The
right-wing party holds pluralities in both houses of Congress.