Blog 4: Society Ready for same-sex marriage: activists

Summary

Taiwan government has experienced pressure from its society and gender rights advocates to go ahead and make same-sex marriages legal. According to the Taiwan alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights there should be no issue in going forward with this procedure because Government officials say that it should be based on society consensus and the majority of the society is ready.  There was an issue brought up by a lady and her same sex partner that used ectogenesis abroad as a way to have a child but according to Taiwan laws their child was not theirs and would not be given the same legal rights as other children if the worst took place with her and her partner.  The partners exclaim there was family support from both sides and wanted to know “was the government ready?” for same –sex marriage. Further steps are being taken in order to meet with Taiwan’s premier Jiang Yi-huah in order to discuss this issue in more detail.

Analysis

Same-sex marriages has been an on-going social issue as it has affected many individuals human rights and has involved an overwhelming amount of attention from both the church systems and government systems. Although the church was not brought up in this particular news story, other factors are still contributing to whether Taiwan’s government allows such act to be legalized.  The issue with family is how children’s lives are effected in addition to those that are considered the caregivers, as we seen in this news story that children aren’t granted same legal rights which is out of their control to begin with and creates a much larger social issue among many other families that are fighting for this right.  Taiwan as well as many other countries across the globe is being faced with this difficult decision as they have to take into consideration human rights, religious beliefs, the direction in which they want their country to go and other political issues.  Families are being directed effected by either decision as some may have to face sacrifices for the best interest of their child and relationships such as moving to where this is illegal which causes financial burdens.

 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/02/27/2003584466
published February 27th, 2014