It had looked like Mexico City was poised to become the next hot spot for gay travel when Mexico City's legislature approved gay marriage on December 21, in the first such law passed anywhere in Latin America.
Now Mexico's attorney general has lodged an appeal at the country's top court against Mexico City's approval of gay marriage which had started a heated debate in this overwhelmingly Catholic nation.
The attorney general's office said in its appeal to the Supreme Court late Wednesday that the move was "anti-constitutional," as was adoption by homosexual couples, which was also approved by Mexico City's liberal authorities.
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard on Thursday called the appeal a "grave mistake."
It was not the job of the federal attorney general, Arturo Chavez, to decide the capital's laws, Ebrard said.
The initiator of the law, leftist deputy David Razu, said the move went against rights and freedoms, and was without legal basis.
Powerful religious groups and conservatives, including President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, have strongly opposed gay marriages.
The Mexican capital authorized civil unions for homosexuals in November 2006 and decriminalized abortion in April 2007, in contrast with mostly conservative policies across the rest of the largely Catholic nation.
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