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小黑。Jul 15, 2023

Nepal becomes first South Asian country to allow same-sex marriage

Nepal becomes first South Asian country to allow same-sex marriage - Lemmy.world

Supreme Court judge Til Prasad Shrestha ruled marriages of same-sex and non-traditional couples must be registered as “temporary” until lawmakers come up with a new legal framework to uphold such unions permanently. In an interim ruling on 28 June, the judge ordered Nepal’s government to set up a separate register of marriages for same-sex couples, who lawyers say will have the same rights as heterosexual partners.

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baseless_discourse Jul 15, 2023

Um, unless Taiwan is not part of “south asia”, they have been allowing non-heterosexual marriage for a well. Recently they are also planning to open Child adoption for non-heterosexual partners, but I did not follow up on how it went.

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randon31415

If you want to make a conservative Chinese person’s head explode, congratulate them on being the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. When they look at you confused and say that China didn’t, say, “Oh, I was under the impression that Taiwan was part of China.”