Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny.
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GAY MARRIAGE JAPAN?
Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny. The lg of the Osaka urt dashed the hop of gay rights activists who are prsurg the ernment to rethk s opposn to same-sex marriage. Japan, where homosexualy has been legal sce 1880, is relatively liberal pared to some Asian natns.
For example, gay sex remas illegal Sgapore spe growg lls to change the lonial-era law. India’s Supreme Court led 2018 that gay sex was no longer a crimal offense.
And this month, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly. The lack of regnn of their unns, they said, had unfairly cut them off om servic and benefs acrd to married upl, and they sought damag of around $9, 000 per upl argued that the ernment’s failure to regnize same-sex unns vlated the nstutnal guarantee of equaly unr the law and the prohibn agast discrimatn regardls of urt agreed, wrg s cisn that laws or regulatns that prived gay upl of the legal benefs of marriage nstuted “discrimatory treatment whout a ratnal basis.