A Mexican leader last week told supporters that gay couples cannot marry because they don't face each other while having sex.

Ana Maria Jimenez Ortiz, a local deputy of the PAN Party in Puebla, said during a forum on whether to legalize gay marriage in the state of Puebla that “marriage should only be considered as those relationships in which the members have sex while facing each other.”

Jimenez Ortiz said that this “does not occur between gay couples,” Mexican media reported. She added that blind people are also in that category, but it was unclear whether she was talking about legally blind people or those who prefer to have sex with the lights off.

She said that this was based on the scientific method, asserting that only eye contract at time of copulation creates a true union.

“Who pretends to love decently using the favorite position of dogs!” she said. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit our video library for more videos.)

PAN is one of three main political parties in Mexico. The right-wing party holds pluralities in both houses of Congress.