Posted on 05/15/2022 6:16:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Japanese capital is considering offering various services currently only available to married couples
Tokyo will begin recognizing same-sex partnerships from November after revising current rules, becoming the largest city in Japan to do so.
Japan is the only nation of the Group of Seven countries that does not recognize same-sex unions, and its constitution stipulates that "marriage shall be only with the mutual consent of both sexes".
But in recent years, local authorities across the country have made moves to recognize same-sex partnerships, although such recognition does not carry the same rights as marriage under the law.
"We collected opinions from the public for the past two months and we heard opinions [from same-sex couples] who said they want to be recognized as partners," a Tokyo government spokesman told AFP.
The metropolitan government plans to ask legislators to approve revising a local ordinance next month, and will then begin accepting applications for the certificates in October and issuing them in November.
The city is considering offering various services currently only available to married couples to those with the partnership certificate, including applying for city-administered apartments, the spokesman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ucanews.com ...
Recognize it as what???
...and so the Ukraine supporters now start Japan down the same slippery slope as the West.
“Japan is the only nation of the Group of Seven countries that does not recognize same-sex unions”
It says something about the state of the faith that the only non-Christian nation in the G7 is also the only one that doesn’t have gay marriage.
It isn’t the Japanese people that want homosexual marriage. It’s the queers running the evil degenerate Biden regime that is forcing Japan to implement it.
It’s their birth rate. They’re not making babies anyway so why not?
But can someone who identifies as a puffer fish partner up with a Japanese maple tree? Come on, these things need to be answered or it’s discrimination.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.