During a protest march organized by LGBT activists, officials in Mexicali announced that they were dismissing the accusation of “insanity” and have been able to carry out the wedding. On 17 June 2013, Víctor Fernando Urías Amparo and Víctor Manuel Aguirre Espinoza were denied the fitting to marry in Mexicali and filed an amparo. The court docket granted the plaintiff couple the best to marry, however underneath Mexico’s legal system the court resolution did not legalize identical-sex marriage statewide. Officials in Ensenada introduced they might abide by the courtroom choice and perform the marriage. On 6 August 2013, a lesbian couple, Reyna Isabel Soberanes Cuadras and Jacqueline Ramos Meza, had been denied a marriage license by the civil registrar in Mexicali, and filed an amparo in courtroom. Lawyers for the couple filed contempt of court docket proceedings towards the mayor and registrar for failure to perform the directions of the Supreme Court. On 31 October 2014, the civil registrar of Mexicali, Adriana Guadalupe Ramirez, notified the couple that the decision wouldn’t be appealed, the refusal was withdrawn, and the wedding might proceed. In late December 2017, the State Commission of Human Rights urged state officials to adjust to the choice and problem marriage licenses to similar-sex couples.
On 22 December 2016, a choose granted an amparo to another similar-intercourse couple. The citizen who made the allegation was an official who performed premarital counseling required by the city and who had refused to offer the couple the certificate that they had completed the counseling. On 31 October 2014, the Seventh District Court ordered metropolis officials to carry out the marriage. One of the three couples married on 14 May 2016 after having acquired approval by a courtroom. He committed the 4 assaults between February 2016 and April this year, getting arrested twice in the method but not being charged by police until a 3rd complaint had been made. On 23 August 2010, shortly after the ruling of the Mexican Supreme Court requiring all states to acknowledge identical-intercourse marriages validly performed in other states, state legislators proposed an modification to article 7 of the Constitution of Baja California, including the definition of marriage as being the “union between a man and a lady”.
By the end of June 2021, approximatively 350 similar-intercourse marriages had been performed in Baja California. The next table reveals the variety of identical-sex marriages performed in Baja California since 2020 as reported by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Previously, Baja California had banned identical-sex marriage each by statute and in its state structure. In early 2020, the civil registry instructed all civil registrars within the state to process marriage purposes by similar-intercourse couples in an an identical method to reverse-sex couples. Same-intercourse marriage has been authorized in Baja California since 3 November 2017 when the Secretary General of Government, Francisco Rueda Gómez, instructed the state’s civil registry to right away start issuing marriage licenses to same-intercourse couples and stop enforcement of the state’s identical-sex marriage ban. On 3 November 2017, the Secretary General of Government, Francisco Rueda Gómez, issued a decree asserting that the state would cease to enforce its ban on same-sex marriages. A 2017 opinion poll carried out by Gabinete de Comunicación Estratégica discovered that 53% of Baja California residents supported same-sex marriage, while 43% have been opposed.
On 17 January 2015, the couple turned the primary identical-sex couple to marry in Baja California. The couple vowed to fight the denial in court docket. On 25 June 2014, the Supreme Court dominated that the identical-intercourse marriage ban violated the Constitution of Mexico. On 16 June 2021, the Congress of Baja California handed legislation to remove a similar-sex marriage ban added to the State Constitution in 2011 and to amend the Civil Code to acknowledge the best of similar-sex couples to marry. On 29 September 2010, the Congress of Baja California voted 18-1 in favor of the constitutional modification. On sixteen July 2020, an amendment to repeal the identical-sex marriage ban failed in Congress, with 15 legislators in favor, 3 opposed and 7 abstentions. On 16 June 2021, Congress permitted a similar-sex marriage invoice launched by Deputy Julia Andrea González. The Commission urged Congress to explicitly amend its marriage legal guidelines to shut the loophole (as it finally did in June 2021), and reminded state officials that it is prohibited to refuse to subject marriage licenses to certified similar-sex couples. The State Commission of Human Rights noted that while similar-intercourse marriage has been authorized in the state since November 2017 several same-intercourse couples had been denied marriage licenses following legalization.
