China judge rules against gay marriage recognition

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A judge in China has ruled a gay couple cannot register as married, in the country's first case of its kind.

Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang filed a lawsuit against Changsha city authorities after their application to register a union was rejected.

In January a district court agreed to hear the case, a first in China.

China does not legally recognise same-sex marriage but there is growing awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

On Wednesday, there were cheers for Mr Sun, 27, and Mr Hu, 37, when they entered the court, from hundreds of supporters who had gathered outside. Authorities allowed about 100 of them inside.

The court dismissed the case a few hours after the hearing started.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36032383

 

[SissyFromSpace 20,884]

shouldn't china worry about their air contamination, pollution, radiation, hazardous area's, etc

 

the only ~safe~ area's are where the tourists visit.

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they'll get it legal eventually 

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china! What are you doing? 

[kizurl 1,801]

Same-sex marriage is actually good for China logistically. Think about the overpopulation, pollution, rat race culture. Forget about the social/ethical aspects, normalizing gay people seems like a practical solution imho.

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On 4/14/2016 at 8:23 PM, kizurl said:

Same-sex marriage is actually good for China logistically. Think about the overpopulation, pollution, rat race culture. Forget about the social/ethical aspects, normalizing gay people seems like a practical solution imho.

I've always kinda thought homosexuality is nature's built-in mechanism of population control. 

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4 minutes ago, Legalize Chris said:

I've always thought homosexuality is nature's natural way of population control. 

Idk how this would work evolutionary though. Because hypothetically homosexuals can't pass on their genes, thus eliminating themselves from the gene pool. However, they could help selection by being caregivers and be a selective advantage towards a group (humans live in families).... so it's an interesting topic for sure. 

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obviously

decades have to pass before countries like China, India and Russia legalize gay-marriage

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On April 14, 2016 at 11:23 PM, kizurl said:

Same-sex marriage is actually good for China logistically. Think about the overpopulation, pollution, rat race culture. Forget about the social/ethical aspects, normalizing gay people seems like a practical solution imho.

They want the population to stay that way for probably another two decades so that the housing bubble won't burst and the social security won't collapse.. 

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On 14/4/2016 at 10:22 PM, Lance said:

shouldn't china worry about their air contamination, pollution, radiation, hazardous area's, etc

 

the only ~safe~ area's are where the tourists visit.

What do you mean? So gays should wait that all the above is fixed before asking for equal rights? Because every country that legalize gay marriage at some point could have said similar things, that they have better things to do.

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3 minutes ago, TiphEret said:

What do you mean? So gays should wait that all the above is fixed before asking for equal rights? Because every country that legalize gay marriage at some point could have said similar things, that they have better things to do.

He's saying that they're making the area of opposing gay marriage a priority, as homosexuality isn't a problem. However, pressing and legitimate issues are being ignored.

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I live in china half of the time, and I'm actually kinda impressed with how much more accepting young people have gotten towards lgbt already, and that's mostly because most people are atheists or don't care much about religion. There's still a lot to be done, but they're heading in the right direction.

There is, however, recently a really popular internet tv show that talks about a gay relationship (I watched it 3 times already on youtube, it's so good) that came out 4 months ago, and it was banned when the 13th episode came out. Well, at least they didn't ban it right when it came out...

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I always think Asia will be the last ones to progress in this issue tbh.

They always hide behind "Eastern values" to reject any progress and sees Western influence mostly as evil and crooked.

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4 hours ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

I live in china half of the time, and I'm actually kinda impressed with how much more accepting young people have gotten towards lgbt already, and that's mostly because most people are atheists or don't care much about religion. There's still a lot to be done, but they're heading in the right direction.

There is, however, recently a really popular internet tv show that talks about a gay relationship (I watched it 3 times already on youtube, it's so good) that came out 4 months ago, and it was banned when the 13th episode came out. Well, at least they didn't ban it right when it came out...

if huang jingyu were shorter, I'd stan..