No Gays Please, We’re Chinese.
“They are undermining our life plan of choosing to marry the person we love,” gay rights activist Sun Wenlin said.
China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from an official list of mental disorders in 2001. Despite legal and social challenges, the country’s LGBT community has become more visible and vocal in recent years. Earlier this month, Beijing legally recognized its first mutual guardianship agreement between two people of the same sex, in a historic first for the city.
Taiwan’s parliament passed a bill in May that endorsed same-sex marriage, after years of heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.
China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has a thriving gay scene in major cities, but there has been little sign the ruling Communist Party will legalize same-sex marriage.
Asked at a news briefing whether China would legalize same-sex marriage, Zang Tiewei, spokesman for parliament’s legal affairs commission, said Chinese law only allowed for marriage between one man and one woman.
“This rule suits our country’s national condition and historical and cultural traditions,” he said. “As far as I know, the vast majority of countries in the world do not recognize the legalization of same-sex marriage.”
China believe God only created 2 sexes, therefore Chinese law only allowed for marriage between one man and one woman. However, the Middle Kingdom is ruled by a party whose founding ideology is Communism, meaning – “In God We Don’t Trust because we are ATHEISTS.”
WTF’s happening?
The decision prompted massive protest by LBGTQ activists like this …