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Taiwan's top court rules in favour of same-sex marriage
BBC ^ | 5/24/17

Posted on 05/24/2017 11:27:08 AM PDT by Timpanagos1

Taiwan's top judges have ruled in favour of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions. The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional. It gave parliament two years to amend existing laws or pass new ones. Wednesday's landmark decision came as the LGBT community faces increasing persecution in the region. In a press release following the ruling, the court said that "disallowing two persons of the same sex to marry, for the sake of safeguarding basic ethical orders" constituted a "different treatment" with "no rational basis." The court concluded that "such different treatment is incompatible with the spirit and meaning of the right to equality" as protected by Taiwan's constitution.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: romneymarriage; samesexmarriage; taiwan
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To: Timpanagos1

Sick and blasphemous.


21 posted on 05/24/2017 5:08:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I thought South Korea is still very socially conservative.


22 posted on 05/24/2017 5:12:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Timpanagos1; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; KC_Lion; stephenjohnbanker; AuH2ORepublican; ...

I assumed the new lib President had something to do with this but no, the courts.

Looks like we’re not the only country with libtard judges run amok.


23 posted on 05/28/2017 1:45:17 AM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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I assumed the new lib President had something to do with this but no, the courts.

Looks like we’re not the only country with libtard judges run amok.


24 posted on 05/28/2017 1:45:32 AM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: dfwgator

South Korea just convicted an army captain of sodomy. He fainted when the verdict was read and had to be carried out of the courtroom on a rainbow flag. He got a suspended sentence of 6 months and is gonna get dishonorably discharged.

But they have a new lib President there too.


25 posted on 05/28/2017 1:59:28 AM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; BillyBoy

More chicks for the rest of us!

As the philosopher Roosh once said: “Enjoy the decline.”


26 posted on 05/28/2017 6:44:14 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Timpanagos1
Ugh.

Meanwhile Communist China, like all other Communist and moslem countries, remains magically immune.

27 posted on 05/28/2017 6:47:41 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Viriycho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
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To: Timpanagos1
S. Korea and Japan will likely follow suite, but I don’t see China, Indonesia or N. Korea moving in the direction of Taiwan.

Of course not. Communist and moslem countries are immune. Only non-Communist, non-moslem countries are subject to this rot.

28 posted on 05/28/2017 6:50:09 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Viriycho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
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