The Mexican capital’s churches have a new challenge: where to seat same-sex parents during their adopted child’s baptism.
Traditionally, the father sits on the right, the mother on the left. But since a law reform in 2009, various same-sex couples have brought their adopted children to be baptized.
“It creates confusion. So we normally seat them in the order of how they appear on the register,” says the Rev. Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the archdiocese of Mexico City.
The Roman Catholic Church is against same-sex marriage and opposes adoption by gay and lesbian couples. But . . .
