It's still illegal in Northern Ireland, despite a majority for the Assembly voting in favour of it in 2015. The DUP used the 'petition of concern' to veto it.
Not necessarily. Taiwan didn't pick a date to implement the law and might wait until 2019. Plenty of things might happen in the meantime, and it could even end up not being the first Asian country with gay marriage since Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan are considering passing the law.
I did a trekking in Nepal 2 years ago and our guide (who constantly held my hand while explaining something) 'confirmed' there are no gay people in his country... Even if they are - finally - thinking of passing that law, they still have a lot of work to do to create acceptance amongst their population.
The government should not be involved in marriage. The power to make gay marriage legal is the same as the power to make interracial marriage illegal. Our freedom shouldn't be contingent on the whims of politicians.
But... the government saying it's legal IS the government getting out of it. They're saying that the government can't stop two people from getting married just because of their gender. And that's exactly WHY things like this NEED to be enshrined in law, so that politicians CAN'T just change things on a whim.
As long as marriage is a recognized civil institution with legal implications this argument is invalid. But moreover, if you believe that people have a right to get married at all then barring certain kinds of people from getting married is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Unfortunately, there is NO right to marriage. Government has taken that right away. I had to get a marriage license (permission) to get married to my wife. Marriage licenses started post Civil War in the US. If ANY higher authority has to be involved prior to the performance of any action, that is not a right. That is a privilege. The real issue, Constitutionally, is the ninth and tenth amendment. The Federal Government has no legal authority to force States into recognizing gay marriage. The other issue is these quizzes are supposed to be fun and not politically charged and the fact that this quiz is on here to open itself up for this kind of debate is stupid. Is there a "Countries that allow slavery" quiz? I guess I will create it.
So, I know this may be a stretch but, what happens once a big majority of countries have legalized it, the quiz will have lost its point and be a "name a lot of countries" quiz.
There will be a point at which the 'countries that do not permit same-sex marriage' will make more sense. That's still some time in the future - very many countries (numerically) will persist in this category for decades to come. But, it is great to have to take this quiz each year again as the list grows. I'm not in the same-sex relationship group, but I am really happy that this topic is becoming routine in so many places around the world. Only 20 years ago, it was still a far-off aspiration in every country in the world. In 20 years from now, we will wonder what people were thinking back in the 'old days'.
It'll be weird in 30 years when kids will look back on this and think "How can the government not allow two people of the same sex from getting married?", and then I'll feel old for remembering when it was a debate and all.
I find it interesting to see how fast such a law can spread nowadays. Women vote and abolition of death penalty took way more time to be adopted by as much countries and some still don't have it.
Yeah, I was thinking it's depressing there are only 27 on the list, but 20 years ago there were 0, so progress is being made, though it's long overdue.
I think the rapid progress has a lot to do with the fact the homosexuality is not correlated to race, class, income, or geography. Most people who oppose progress for marginalized groups have a stigmatized view of those groups because they don't interact with them. The white suburban people I know are "tough on crime" because they don't know any poor people and don't appreciate the link between poverty and crime. But a lot of them have softened their views on homosexuality since they found out they have a gay nephew, neighbor, coworker, and or whatever, and realized through direct interaction that, hey, he's just like everybody else and he deserves to be happy. And now that homosexuals are more visible and accepted, people who are gay are more willing to come out and be known, which increases the community's visibility exponentially and further normalizes it. It's a great ripple effect.
Unfortunately, it still may take a while for a lot of developing countries to come around to this, where conservative attitudes toward LGBT rights still prevail. I'm pretty hopeful for the future though. My millenial/Gen Z cousins in Bangladesh seem to support it, or at least be willing to talk about it. Plus, there's widespread legal recognition and growing acceptance of transgender people throughout South Asia. When future generations comes to power, I think there's a serious chance that things will change.
Austria should join this list in 2019; as long as the Austrian Parliament doesn't amend the marriage laws, the current law states it will be legal as of January 1, 2019.
Aye but not Northern Ireland or IIRC some of the overseas territories. So unfortunately we can't yet correctly say gay marriage is legal in the United Kingdom, though it is in Great Britain.
So....there are 196 recognized countries in the world (thanks JetPunk), and only 23 have recognized same sex marriage.
So it's safe to say that the majority of the world doesn't allow same sex marriage. Now that's not to say anything good or bad. Remember, we are only talking about numbers here.
So in order for same sex marriage to be even close to the norm, 77 more countries need to recognize this. (That means the majority 99 countries yes and 97 countries no).
The list I would like to see.......Of the 173 current countries that don't allow same sex marriage, which one's are more likely to change their position on the issue? That would be jetpunk GOLD.
I get your point, but I think if we want to talk numbers it would be more correct to talk about it in terms of number of countries and those countries' percentage of world population. There's some sizably populated countries on this list. Of course, if we want to talk about that, we have to remember that it could be legalized in 194 countries and still only cover about 2/3 of the world's population if you exclude China and India. And I don't think it's about to happen there anytime soon.
Can't say about China, but India recently legalized homosexuality, which I think is a big deal. And as I mentioned in a comment above, young people in conservative Bangladesh also seem open to it.
I don't think a majority will happen anytime soon, but, as a Gen Z, I could forsee it happening within my lifetime.
It's fascinating to see the way it began with a few countries and really snowballed in the last 10 years or so. This list might be a lot bigger in another 10 years!
If other people's decisions that do not affect you life in any way annoy you then you should seek professional help. How would you like the whole population of your nation having a say on who you can or cannot be in a relationship with?
"This 'other people different from me getting as many rights as me" stuff is getting annoying", is what you truly meant, I believe. Progress means changing for the better, only backward-minded people would complain about that. And bigots, of course. You're on the wrong side of history, have fun staying in the past while the world keeps moving forward.
It's an outdated institution born out of the desire to turn women into property and also to make sex, which should be a basic human right, something expensive and exclusive so that men with power and privilege could monopolize all of the best options for it.
Only religious institutions, then? They don't have any reason to hold the exclusivity on marriage, it just so happens that they did for a long time. If that's not your argument, then you fail to understand what marriage really means. Civil marriage is a legal act, and therefore directly tied to the government that both creates and upholds the laws.
I guess that up for each individual person to decide? What works for me may not work for you and that's okay. We all should be free to decide as long as all the involved are consenting adults.
If you wait until after 13th January you can add the UK, as parliament is finally making Northern Ireland recognise same-sex marriage too regardless of what the DUP wants.
Yeah, I remember recently a same-sex couple from Italy brought their daughter to be baptized at my church here in Canada, because they couldn't do it in Italy. It was really touching.
Yeay for the update, and had all but one of them correct, for some reason i didn't think of Malta. Lol. Nice to see the UK following the trend with some delay. Greets from the guys & girls who where the first.
Would it make more sense to split the UK into two entries? One for 2014 covering England & Wales and Scotland, and 2020 covering Northern Ireland. As 97% of the UK population lives outside of NI the situation is not comparable with the likes of the US in which a significant percentage of the population could not get married until 2015.
However, I didn't approve the update. People lose their points when questions are added/removed and it's unfair to do that more than once a year per quiz.
UPDATE: the anti-same-sex marriage community have successfully launched the referendum triggering a nationwide vote. Looks more like late 2022 or 2023 at this point
The guide was an educated young man btw... sad
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So it's safe to say that the majority of the world doesn't allow same sex marriage. Now that's not to say anything good or bad. Remember, we are only talking about numbers here.
So in order for same sex marriage to be even close to the norm, 77 more countries need to recognize this. (That means the majority 99 countries yes and 97 countries no).
The list I would like to see.......Of the 173 current countries that don't allow same sex marriage, which one's are more likely to change their position on the issue? That would be jetpunk GOLD.
I don't think a majority will happen anytime soon, but, as a Gen Z, I could forsee it happening within my lifetime.
Time for an update!
Source: am Swiss and interested in Swiss politics