Tag: marriage equailty
Taiwan makes history by becoming the first Asian country to legalize marriage equality
A May 24, 2017 ruling by Taiwan’s Supreme Court declared the country Civil Code’s definition of marriage — between a man and a woman — as unconstitutional because it failed to protect all human rights. The Court gave Taiwanese legislators two years to legalize it, but Prime Minister Tsai Ing-wen (who ran on an equality platform) and other legislators were too timid to take action.
Their inaction allowed anti-gay religious petitioners to turn the issue into a non-binding November 24 ballot...
