Mexico City lawmakers approved same-sex marriage Dec. 20—making it the first measure of its kind passed in Latin America, according to AFP. The new measure modified a civil-union statute already in Mexico City.
Assemblyman Davi Razu said, "It was approved overall by 39 votes in favor and 20 against, with five abstentions."
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Members of the Democratic Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , which has ruled Mexico's capital for the past 12 years, fully supported the measure. The country's ruling National Action Party ( PAN ) opposed the bill.
The new law alters the meaning of marriage from "a free union between a man and a woman" to "a free union between two people."
