Someone Fetch me my Fainting Couch!
Posted on 04/14/2016 8:48:44 AM PDT by Prov1322
BEIJING — A judge ruled on Wednesday against a gay couple who had sought the right to marry, in China’s first court case addressing the issue of same-sex unions.
The couple, Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang, filed a lawsuit against a civil affairs bureau in Changsha, Hunan Province, in southern China, after the office refused to grant them the right to marry when they tried to register in June 2015.
In a surprising move, a district court accepted the case early this year, the first time a Chinese court had agreed to hear such a lawsuit. An initial hearing scheduled for January was postponed. The court held a hearing on Wednesday morning, and the judge issued a ruling a few hours later. News of the ruling began circulating on social media shortly afterward.
Mr. Sun said in an interview that he and Mr. Hu planned to appeal. They will have to do so in the next 15 days, according to Chinese law.
Mr. Sun said that he had argued that he and Mr. Hu should be allowed to marry since the law did not explicitly ban same-sex marriage.
“We said this at the hearing, but they just kept repeating articles that mention ‘a man and a woman,’ ” he said, referring to the civil affairs bureau.
The bureau cited three articles from China’s marriage law and two from the official marriage registration regulation, he said, with four mentioning “a man and a woman” and one stating that a civil affairs bureau may refuse applications if it believes a couple is not qualified to marry.
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As we already know, if it were not for double standards these leftist corps (all of them, not just specifying these two...) would have no standards at all. Waiting, but not holding breath...
Someone Fetch me my Fainting Couch!
How many US companies will call for a boycott of China over this ruling?
Who planned to appeal?
Yes.
My, my!! Now we need to look to China for guidance in matters of morality.
You know things are haywire in America when China upstages us for doing something right.
Who planned to appeal?
Who's on first? 😀😆😃
Hu ua a very common name even in this country. Hu Me seemed to be especially common back in the early eighties when I as a deputy for a while.
I’m waiting for all these Holier-than-Thou companies to boycott China. And waiting,....and waiting,....and...zzzzzz
So China’s one child (males) policy starts to bear fruit.
Do I have to boycott China now or get audited by IRS or something?
Geez, all I can say is don't break your neck. It makes your typing periodically and without warning go straight to Hell.
Should be, "Hu is . . ."
ZuckMyBurger is no doubt rushing out a statement about ending his business in China. Be patient.
I see what you did there.
No honeymoon in Bangkok......
I guess PayPal will pull out, the Boss won’t be going. /s
What also surprises me is that China appears to have a well-functioning judicial system, even for a communist country. These people had a fair hearing open to the public, it was reported in the press, and they are pursuing a right to appeal. A commendable application of Due Process.
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