Landmark ruling will mean country is first in Asia to allow gay couples to marry and cements reputation as beacon of liberalismTaiwan is to become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage,after the island’s constitutional court ruled current laws defining unions as between a man and a woman are invalid.
Taiwan’s highest court, the council of grand justices, or said barring gay couples from marrying violated “the people’s freedom of marriage” and “the people’s proper to equality”.
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Source: theguardian.com