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
published February 27th, 2014
