What does the word gay marriage mean
Marriage equality
Decriminalisation of homosexuality
From the 1960s the socially gradual South Australian Labor government wanted to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality.
However, it was not until the May 1972 murder in Adelaide of Dr George Duncan, a law lecturer and gay man, that premier, Don Dunstan, assessed that the community mood was receptive to reform.
Dr Duncan’s murder led to revelations of how commonplace force and harassment against lgbtq+ people was.
South Australia’s Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Do, was enacted on 2 October 1975. It was a landmark in LGBTQIA+ rights in Australia because it fully decriminalised lesbian acts.
Equivalent law reform was passed by the Australian Capital Territory in 1976, Victoria in 1980, the Northern Territory in 1983, New South Wales in 1984, Western Australia in 1989, Queensland in 1990 and Tasmania in 1997.
Why people oppose same-sex marriage
Why do opponents of gay marriage really oppose it?
A UCLA psychology study published online today in the journal Psychological Science concludes that many people trust gay men and women are more sexually promiscuous than heterosexuals, which they may fear could threaten their own marriages and their way of life.
“Many people who oppose queer marriage are uncomfortable with casual sex and touch threatened by sexual promiscuity,” said David Pinsof, a UCLA graduate student of psychology and lead author of the study.
Such people often marry at a younger age, have more children and believe in traditional gender roles in which men are the breadwinners and women are housewives.
“Sexual promiscuity may be threatening to these people because it provides more temptations for spouses to betray on one another,” Pinsof said. “On the other hand, for people who are comfortable with women being more economically independent, marrying at a later age and having more sexual partners, sexual promiscuity is not as much of a threat because women do not trust on men for financial support.” The researchers m
Same-sex Marriage
Subsequent to the judgement of the Court of Final Appeal in Leung Chun Kwong v Secretary for the Civil Service (2019) 22 HKCFAR 127, a same-sex marriage would be regarded as a valid marriage for the purposes of the Inland Revenue Ordinance (the Ordinance).
Background
In section 2(1) of the Ordinance, “marriage” is defined to mean:
(a) (b) | any marriage established by the law of Hong Kong; or any marriage, whether or not so recognized, entered into outside Hong Kong according to the law of the place where it was entered into and between persons having the capacity to do so. |
In the same section, “spouse” is defined to mean a husband or wife whereas “husband” and “wife” mention to a married dude and married woman respectively.
Based on the above definitions, “marriage” was in the past construed as a heterosexual marriage between a man and a chick and parties in a same-sex marriage would be incapable of having a “spouse”. A same-sex marriage was thus not regarded as a valid marriage for the purposes of the Ordinance.
Judgement of Court of Final Appeal on th Same-sex marriage is marriage between partners of the identical sex and/or gender identity. For example, a marriage between two men or two women. In 2003, Massachusetts became the first state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages with Goodridge v. Department of Universal Health, 440 Mass. 309 - Mass: Supreme Judicial Court (2003), paving the way for many other states to consider legalizing same-sex marriage. Over the course of the next decade, several other states legalized homosexual marriage; and in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015), legalized gay marriage nationwide, including in the remaining 14 states that had not previously allowed same-sex couples to marry. The decision in this case was based on the court’s interpretation of the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. See also:Equal Protection and Marriage Equality [Last reviewed in July of 2021 by the Wex Definitions Team] Wex Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that could have a dramatic impact on the future of homosexual marriage. In one, the court is asked to examine whether California’s voter-approved ban on lgbtq+ marriage violates the U.S. Constitution. In the other, the court will resolve on a question to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which blocks same-sex married couples from receiving the same federal marriage benefits as heterosexual married couples. The Supreme Court takes up the issue as support for gay marriage is at an all-time upper. A Washington Post–ABC News poll conducted last month reported that 58 percent of Americans consider gay and womxn loving womxn couples should be able to wed legally. And the percentage is even higher (81 percent) among young adults, ages 18 to 29. Only 36 percent of those polled say queer marriage should be illegal. This week’s “YouSpeak” asks: “Should homosexual marriage be legalized nationally?” If you have a suggestion for a question you’d love us to question, post in the Comments section below.
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YouSpeak: Same-Sex Marriage
Supreme Court takes up the issue as the country watches
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