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Mexican federal prosecutors have said they will try to overturn Mexico City’s gay marriage law on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

The federal Attorney General’s Office said that the law “violates the principle of legality, because it strays from the constitutional principle of protecting the family”.

Approved in December, the law is due to take effect in March. Mexico City authorised civil unions for same-sex couples in November 2006, but the new law also allows same-sex couples to adopt.

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard called the appeal a “grave mistake”, saying it was not the job of the federal Attorney General, Arturo Chavez, to decide the capital’s laws.

Ebrard, of the progressive Democratic Revolution Party, refused to veto the law, despite pressure to do so from the conservative National Action Party and the Mexican Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Noberto Rivera Carrera, called the law “reprehensible” last month.

Legislators say the law simply gives same-sex couples the same rights that heterosexual couples have regarding social security and other benefits, and that there is no evidence that children adopted by same-sex couples suffer any disadvantages.

City officials have said the action by the Attorney General Office would not prevent the law coming into force.

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