Mexico's Supreme Court upheld on Monday a Mexico City law allowing married same-sex couples to adopt children.

Mexico City's left-leaning Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, expected to seek the presidency in 2012, pushed through the legislation this year, making Mexico City the first Latin American capital to extend to same-sex couples the same marriage and adoption rights as heterosexuals.

Mexico's ruling conservative National Action Party and the Catholic Church strongly opposed both provisions, arguing they would be destructive to traditional families.

Activists see the legislation as part of a sea change in attitudes on homosexuality in much of traditionally conservative Latin America.

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