Marriages between People of the Same Sex, Intercultural Dialogue, Identity, and Spaces of Power

(1. National Pedagogical University of Hidalgo, Maxico; 2. Universidad Politécnica de Pachuca, Maxico)

Abstract: In 2016, in Mexico City and in some states of the Mexican Republic, such as Hidalgo, Jalisco, and Guanajuato, a social movement was created against marriages of people of the same sex. The movement is headed by a conservative sector of the Catholic Church, by the political party social encounter and by a group of the Evangelical Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal church.

The document in question maintains that the voices that are expressed denying the possibility that people of the same sex join in a legal manner, represent the stench of a conservative, anti-liberal and anti-human ideology. It is also argued that this confrontation and the possibility of exercising a right and of benefiting from it, is conditioned by the power and by the social position that is occupied in the social field in which it participates (Bourdieu, 1999). The power, like the ability to influence the other to change their behavior and/or to influence decision-making is determined in turn by the political and economic capital that is at stake and have the opponents who are in a struggle and in permanent confrontation by the capital in dispute (Bourdieu, 1999).

Key words: Human rights, diversity, interculturality, equal marriages, spaces of power