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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Hu? Me?
“How many US companies will call for a boycott of China over this ruling?”
Excellent point.
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
What.
What’s on second.
No, what's on second, who's on first.
Well we know Bruce Springsteen won’t be playing in China anytime soon.
Alert Bruce Springsteen !
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.
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.
I was thinking more along the lines that they have a ready made army to go take other countries and get their women.
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.
So when does the boycott of all things Chinese start? Or is that just too inconvenient than standing up for their beliefs?
I suspect the women will be crispy critters long before the army gets there.
Maybe that’s what New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio meant with CPT........China Protest Time!
Oooohhhh. Where are the millennials going to get their iPhones now, I wonder?
LOL’s Cute! Saved it.
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