No wonder Taiwan seems messed up to most of you guys!

[E Irizarry R&B Singer]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... x-marriage

Taiwan's top court rules in favour of same-sex marriage
Landmark ruling will mean country is first in Asia to allow gay couples to marry and cements reputation as beacon of liberalism
Activists hug outside the parliament in Taipei as they celebrate after the court ruled in favour of same-sex unions.
Activists hug outside the parliament in Taipei as they celebrate after the court ruled in favour of same-sex unions. Photograph: Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty
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Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong
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Wednesday 24 May 2017 12.34 BST First published on Wednesday 24 May 2017 10.01 BST
Taiwan is to become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after the island’s constitutional court ruled current laws defining unions as between a man and a woman are invalid.

Taiwan’s highest court, the council of grand justices, said barring gay couples from marrying violated “the people’s freedom of marriage” and “the people’s right to equality”.

“Sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic that is resistant to change,” the court said in its ruling. “The freedom of marriage for two persons of the same sex, once legally recognised, will constitute the collective basis, together with opposite-sex marriage, for a stable society.”

The island’s parliament has two years to amend or enact laws addressing same-sex unions, otherwise gay couples will automatically be allowed to register under the current framework. Two of the 14 justices dissented and one recused himself.


The debate over the past year on same-sex marriage and the court’s ruling is unique in Asia, where attitudes towards gay couples remain hostile in many countries.

The ruling comes after Chi Chia-wei, who has been campaigning for LGBT rights for decades, sued when he was barred from marrying his partner of 30 years, with the city government of Taipei supporting the lawsuit.

“I am very happy about this result. I have been waiting for justice for 42 years,” Chi said in an interview after the ruling, marking the date he came out as gay in 1975, when Taiwan was under martial law.

“At last the government will be able to modify the law within two years, or sooner if the Democratic Progressive party pushes harder,” he added, referring to the island’s ruling party.

Supporters of marriage equality gathered outside the court in the capital, Taipei, and erupted in celebration after the ruling, shouting: “We can marry now!” while opponents tore up flyers and threw them at the court in disapproval.

“It’s one major step towards legalisation and yet another sign that Taiwan is ready to assume a leadership role in the defence of human rights in the region,” said J Michael Cole, a senior fellow at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute.

“This goes beyond the extension of rights to LGBT individuals: it’s about the young generation’s identity as Taiwanese.”


The Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, openly supported legalising same-sex marriage during her campaign, but in the year since she came to power and amid low approval ratings, she declined to aggressively push for amending the law.

Legislation stalled in parliament after it was introduced last year and the current parliamentary session ends on 31 May. Opponents of the bill spearheaded by religious groups threatened to turn out against any legislator that voted in favour of gay marriage.

Tsai’s attitude had cost her support among younger members of her party and young people in general, Cole said.

The apparent suicide of a French professor in Taiwan in October, after he failed to marry his partner of 35 years, galvanised the fight for gay marriage.

In the same week as the Taiwanese court ruling, two men were caned in Indonesia for consensual gay sex and a South Korean military court convicted a soldier for having a same-sex relationship in what rights groups called a “witch-hunt”.

[xiongmao]

Wow, I looked at this article and Google Ads is showing me an ad for a gay hotel.

It's the thin end of the wedge.

At least Winston is now legally able to marry a ladyboy.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Things are getting so bad in the "developed" world that I can envision the day when people marrying children will be legalized. It might seem far-fetched today, but in my younger years, LGBT marriage would have been inconceivable.

[starchild5]

What I don't understand is the Gay People's undying need to be accepted in Lamestream Society.

This is exactly what is called Contradiction. Being Gay itself is going against the social norms and now you want society to accept you. What the F ??

Look at your D**ck Man...and now Look at a womens P***y...The debate ends right there...

The thing called Marriage was started by Lamestream as a way to keep sanity in society and give a healthy life & birth to newborn babies.

Gay people are totally a Tool of the Zionist.

The Institution of Marriage itself....is designed to GIVE ALL YOUR POWER AWAY to the state. Its not a perfect system...It's just to maintain the Status Quo on Earth.

Why don't the LGBT come up with their own thingy called Gariage where they never have to worry about marriage at all.

Anyways, nobody is stopping you from sleeping around, living together, you can even adopt kids if you are single atleast in India through surrogacy.

Why the undying need for them to be married in the most traditional way possible is baffling.

Got Breast Milk or you gonna go with Powder Milk to make the corporates rich...Now that we have come this far...Why don't you do some surgery to grow breasts as well in your tits and give healthy breast milk to your adopted babies or would that be going too far ???

[Falcon]

It's seriously easier to find a gay boyfriend in the US than it is to find a girlfriend, at least in the State of Gay-lifornia. I tell that to girls in Asia who ask me why the US isn't a womanizing paradise for me.

And now Taiwan has just joined the list too.

[Man With a Plan]

Not sure why grown men are triggered by fags. More p***y for you all, right? Unless there is something deep down that you're not admitting to yourselves.

Hmm...what could it be?