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The Mexican Catholic church is criticizing the Northern state of Chihuahua‘s decision to eliminate adultery from its list of punishable crimes in its “Reforma Penal“:

For Bishop Renato Ascencio León, this change “is yet another manifestation that we are straying off the path” and said that “the only thing that this will cause is, if authority does not intervene, that victims take justice into their own hands.”

Personally, I had no idea that adultery was a punishable crime in Mexico. And people will take justice into their own hands whether “authorities” do or not.

Chihuahua’s penal reform, introduced in November, added child pornography and sex tourism to its list of punishable crimes, but eliminated adultery. Sounds like a decent trade-off to me.

Chihuahua’s Attorney General states that adultery was eliminated because it’s “seldom reported” while the church calls it a “serious sin” that should be “punished by the laws of men”.

Via / El Plural