¡Olé!

I had a different post planned for this morning, but a shout-out to the fact that Mexico City legislature’s voted to legalize gay marriage (as opposed to civil unions, which were legalized three years ago) seemed appropriate in the wake of yesterday’s post. Mexico City’s mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, is expected to sign the bill into law, changing the city’s civil code definition of marriage from the union of a man and a woman to the ‘free uniting of two people.’

The free uniting of two people — doesn’t that sound nice? The one dark spot is that Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said he will challenge the bill in the courts, but from what I can tell at least the country’s capital city seems like a pretty hip town when it comes to equal rights when it comes to marriage.