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Judge in China Rules Gay Couple Cannot Marry
NYTimes ^ | 04.13.2016 | EDWARD WONG and VANESSA PIAO

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; homosexualagenda
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To: henkster

Hu? Me?


21 posted on 04/14/2016 9:25:07 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Lockbox

“How many US companies will call for a boycott of China over this ruling?”

Excellent point.


22 posted on 04/14/2016 9:34:38 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Prov1322

Gay marriage is a logical outcome of the fact that there are 100,000,000 more men than women in China due to their one-child policy


23 posted on 04/14/2016 9:36:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Mark17

What.


24 posted on 04/14/2016 9:45:25 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper
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25 posted on 04/14/2016 9:54:52 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: SgtHooper

What’s on second.


26 posted on 04/14/2016 9:54:57 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: SgtHooper
What.

No, what's on second, who's on first.

27 posted on 04/14/2016 9:56:32 AM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Prov1322

Well we know Bruce Springsteen won’t be playing in China anytime soon.


28 posted on 04/14/2016 9:56:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Prov1322

Alert Bruce Springsteen !


29 posted on 04/14/2016 10:03:48 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Prov1322
So in these extraordinary times the ChiComs can get at least one thing right! Now when will we hear from Apple, Coca Cola, et al about when they will pull out of China over this decision.

This China ruling needs to be shoved up the @$$ of every one of these D@mn homo-promoting corporations. It needs to be what they have for breakfast every morning and what they eat for dinner every evening.

They need to pull all their multi-billions of dollars of investment out of China in Protest.

They need to demonstrate that they are willing to sacrifice for those principles they claim to believe in, and show they mean it by kissing off all that money they would have made from China sales.

And then they need to disinvest from all those Muslim countries.

But of course, everyone knows they won't do it, because at heart they are cowards and hypocrites who only have one principle; Themselves and what makes them feel good.

30 posted on 04/14/2016 10:11:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Vinnie
I guess PayPal will pull out, the Boss won’t be going. /s

If we owned a network, we could run a story at the top of the news that says, Liberal Hypocrites back down in the face of China's decision. Then name names. We could cost these companies literally billions of dollars in lost revenue by making sure the Muslim nations knew they were supporting a behavior banned by the Koran.

But since all networks are owned by Liberals, no body is going to inform the American people, or the world, about what cowards and liars these people are. (Bruce Springsteen, et al.)

Mass communications is the key to public sentiment. If you can't communicate, you can't get the public to go along with what you think.

Liberals seized broadcasting systems precisely because they knew this was how to influence the public.

31 posted on 04/14/2016 10:16:49 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gay marriage is a logical outcome of the fact that there are 100,000,000 more men than women in China due to their one-child policy

I was thinking more along the lines that they have a ready made army to go take other countries and get their women.

32 posted on 04/14/2016 10:18:48 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Prov1322

Future generations will look back on the decadent period of Western Civilization with about as much disgust as the decadent period of the Roman Empire.


33 posted on 04/14/2016 10:35:27 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Truth--as well as we can perceive it and put it into words--is the best we can do.)
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To: Prov1322

So when does the boycott of all things Chinese start? Or is that just too inconvenient than standing up for their beliefs?


34 posted on 04/14/2016 11:06:57 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: DiogenesLamp

I suspect the women will be crispy critters long before the army gets there.


35 posted on 04/14/2016 11:22:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Lockbox
When will New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio both announce bans on trips to China?
36 posted on 04/14/2016 11:36:00 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: TYVets

Maybe that’s what New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio meant with CPT........China Protest Time!


37 posted on 04/14/2016 11:40:53 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Lockbox

Oooohhhh. Where are the millennials going to get their iPhones now, I wonder?


38 posted on 04/14/2016 12:06:20 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: KC_Lion

LOL’s Cute! Saved it.


39 posted on 04/14/2016 4:09:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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