The church - and Calderón - is reaping what it sowed.

An ever growing chorus of voices condemns the Mexican church's intolerance and flouting of the Mexican constitution:


* Rubén Moreira Valdez, PRI national deputy from Coahuila, and the president of the Human Rights Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, responds: 

"Laws that permit marriage between the same sex and the right to adoption, do not not hurt the family; the injury happens when 'thugs' irresponsibly hurl curses or insults against people and institutions."

*Raúl Plascencia, Mexico City human rights ombudsman, calls on the catholic hierarchy to be tolerant and respect Mexico's institutions. 


* Ricardo Bucio, president of the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, said he will seek talks with the church to explain them the importance of not discriminating against others. 


* The PRD in Mexico City, for its part, filed a separate complaint to IFE, the Federal Electoral Institute, against cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez and church spokesman Hugo Valdemar for calling upon people outright to note vote for the PRD, and for its many hateful statements against the political party. In my view, the party has demonstrated much patience in not doing so before. 


* Emilio Alvarez Icaza, El Universal: "Can someone tell them that the Middle Ages have ended?"

* José Cárdenas, prominent commentator, gets the final word in his column, entitled:  "Sandoval is a blight on society.""

"A blight is a scar. The product of a wound. In the body and the soul. An ailment. A vice that brands the sufferer. A blight is usually a depravedperson. Perverse. His Eminence, Cardinal Juan Sandoval, is all that. A blight on society. A homophobe. A hypocrite. Slander. He does not speak as a pastor. He speaks as a herder. Crude. He is abusive. He distorts the doctrine of christ. He discriminates. He uses the cross as a sword. He confuses religious dogma and law. He is sweeping in the sewers of the secular state. He abuses the name of  god. He poisons." 

Amen to that.