Taiwan's top court rules in favour of same-sex marriage

[BlackMageMari]

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40012047"]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40012047[/URL]

[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]

Hope is that they'll just simply extend marriage rights to gay couples in full.

Let's go boys! Congrats Taiwan!

[Crooky01]

Another step further into the future

[DogGunn]

What happens if they don't pass new laws?

[BlackMageMari]

[QUOTE=DogGunn;52268881]What happens if they don't pass new laws?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]If legislators fail to meet the court's two-year deadline, it said same-sex couples could register to marry based on its ruling.[/QUOTE]

[Animosus]

And yet still nothing for Australians yet, getting pretty sad that we have less rights than a lot of other countries now.. It's pretty damn awesome for Taiwan though, congrats to them!

[ironman17]

[QUOTE=Crooky14;52268846]Another step further into the future[/QUOTE]
And another step away from barbarism. Good job, Taiwan!

[Kube]

Good for Taiwan! Best China.

[Judqment8]

Something positive for a change. Great job Taiwan :pride:

[AtomicSans]

Republic of China is only china

[BryBreadmin]

Ayyy congrats Taiwan

[Mr.Brown]

Proud of my country, also glad that we got attention for this since nobody knows us or recognizes us