Overseas gay marriage fight to go to HK's top urt - RTHK

Contents:

• GAY OFFICIAL WS COURT BATTLE FOR SPOAL BENEFS HONG KONG
• HONG KONG URT FAVORS GAY UPLE LANDMARK VICTORY FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS

GAY OFFICIAL WS COURT BATTLE FOR SPOAL BENEFS HONG KONG

Grantg marriage rights to gay upl means better health and stabily for them and their children, benefs society and boosts the enomy. Homosexualy has been crimalized sce 1991 Hong Kong, a former Brish lony that returned to Che le 1997. The cy has an annual pri para and lively gay do not, however, regnize same-sex marriage and LGBTQ activists voice ncerns about wispread Kong's top urt June led favor of a gay civil servant fightg for spoal and tax benefs for his NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.

It is 2020 and we should not be biased agast gay people. We should not discrimate agast gay people, but that don’t mean that we n allow them to society or make act agast mon Wong, 15, Chiu Lut S Memorial Sendary SchoolHow to talk to someone wh different polil views whout gettg nastyScience has proved that homosexualy is a normal and natural variatn human behavur. Sadly, homosexualy is still not as openly accepted Hong Kong as is Wtern untri.

HONG KONG URT FAVORS GAY UPLE LANDMARK VICTORY FOR LGBT+ RIGHTS

It is hard for a Che society to accept homosexualy, but the most outspoken voic agast same-sex marriage e om a Catholic, I unrstand the importance of upholdg certa tradns and valu. Gay upl, too, should have the same Y, 15, St Pl’s Convent SchoolIt should fely be legal.

Gay rights should be rpected, but marriage is nsired to be holy and servg rpect, pecially bee has a nnectn wh God. Although gay people should have equal rights as everyone else, same-sex marriage should not be legal. Neverthels, is ccial to be aware of the fact that such legislatn volv a lot more than jt the uple or their addn to discrimatn and cricism om society, gay marriage fac several social welfare issu.

Gay rights activist Jimmy Sham has been given permissn to take his fight to get Hong Kong to regnise overseas same-sex marriag to the cy's top urt.

If we observe how society evolv and how people’s attus toward homosexualy change over time, legalizg same-sex marriage appears to be the product of the natural progrsn of humany. While homosexualy Cha was acknowledged as far back as the Han Dynasty, remas a taboo subject Che society, pecially among s polil class. We n learn om the evolvg views of two world lears on homosexualy.

After the World War II, legal sanctns agast homosexual behavr together wh prejudice agast gays and lbians rose to a peak the UK. For example, Alan Turg, the breaker who ciphered Enigma d msag, a breakthrough that was val to the Brish war effort agast Nazi Germany, was nvicted for beg gay 1952, was subjected to chemil stratn, and mted suici 1954. As the Brish attus toward homosexualy changed, Parliament progrsively pivoted, often wh parliamentarians playg a cril role steerg and bolsterg progrsive valu the crowd.

Parliament ratified the Sexual Offenc Act, which crimalized homosexual acts, 1967. Across the Atlantic Ocean, homosexualy was illegal the Uned Stat until the US Supreme Court elimated sodomy laws 2003.

The ath of Matthew Shepard, a 22-year-old gay stunt who was beaten, tortured, and tied to a prairie fence Wyomg, shocked the natn 1998. Durg his US Senate mpaign 2004, Obama stated that he would not support same-sex marriage, even though he believed that homosexualy is not a choice and “for the most part, is nate.

Asia Pacific|Gay Official Ws Court Battle for Spoal Benefs Hong Kong Siu/RtersJune 6, 2019HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s top urt led on Thursday that a gay civil servant and his hband were entled to spoal benefs and a jot tax return, the latt example of an Asian ernment expandg rights for same-sex lg by the Hong Kong Court of Fal Appeal found that the thori had failed to jtify an earlier cisn to ny those benefs to Ang Lng Chun-kwong, an immigratn officer the semitonomo Che terrory, and his Brish hband Stt Adams, whom he married New Zealand the lg was limed s spe and did not legalize same-sex marriage the cy, Mr. Lng’s supporters celebrated the cisn as an cremental but important urt has ma “possible for all other current and future civil servants to enjoy the rights they should be entled to, ” Raymond Chan, an opposn member the cy’s Legislative Council who is Hong Kong’s first openly gay lawmaker, wrote a Medium post after the lg was Chan noted that Mr.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: Hong Kong Court Rul for Gay Couple. BANGKOK (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Hong Kong’s top urt on Thursday led favor of a gay civil servant fightg for spoal and tax benefs for his hband the latt legal victory over equal rights for same-sex upl a cy where gay marriage is Chun Kwong, an immigratn officer who married his hband Stt Adams New Zealand, went to urt 2017 agast the Civil Service Bure that refed to grant benefs to his hband, and for the right to file tax a lower urt partially led Lng’s favor, the ernment filed an appeal and a higher urt last year overturned the judgment. The cy has an annual pri para and lively gay do not, however, regnize same-sex marriage and LGBT+ activists voice ncerns about wispread last month beme the first place Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after a long stggle but the ph for LGBT+ rights is slow elsewhere Asia.